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Issue 1

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This issue is devoted to the international conference on outcome based evaluation on child and family services held in Padova (Italy) in 2008.

Problems such as child maltreatment, abuse, delinquent behaviour, social exclusion, problematic behaviours, deprivation and many others should be addressed. In the real world, on these topics, there are more problems than solutions, even if many people and different organizations have been dealing with researches on these themes for many years. For the conference, we chose to focus on the point of view of the children and parents in difficulty, living everyday in the conditions listed above. How could we do this? We considered these network an occasion for exchanging visions.

 

Content

Key elements of effective practice in supporting parents in vulnerable families: what the international evidence tells us

authors: Deborah Ghate

Valuing Young Parents – Collaborative practice in working with teenage parents in outer Western Sydney in an early intervention and prevention model

authors: Karen van Woudenberg, Louisa McKay

A way of conducting groups of parents: which work? An overview of practices in France and Italy

authors: Anne-Marie Doucet-Dahlgren, Veronique Francis, Chiara Sità, Livia Cadei

Community-based child abuse prevention: Outcomes associated with a differential response program in California

authors: Amy Conley, Jill Duerr Berrick

Engaging birth parents in child welfare services: promising practices and policy opportunities

authors: Susan P. Kemp, Maureen O. Marcenko, William Vesneski

Family stress and behavioural problems in kinship and non-kinship foster care. Report of a Flemish study

authors: Frank Van Holen, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Charlotte Haarsma

Whole family approaches: responding to and engaging with complex social lives

authors: Harriet Clarke, Nathan Hughes, Kate Morris

Family group conferences and the improvement of family centred decision making

authors: Peter Marsh

Parent management training of foster parents: development, user evaluation and RCT

authors: Reidar Jakobsen

Cross national implementation of the Homebuilders® Model: Experiences, challenges and outcomes

authors: Shelley Leavitt, Charlotte Booth

Comparing costs in evaluating services for severely troubled children and youth in care

authors: Lisa Holmes, Harriet Ward

Traumatised children’s view of their social world: the application of the Social Network Map for children who have experienced abuse and neglect

authors: Annette Jackson, Margarita Frederico, Carly Black, Jane Harrison, Trish McCluskey

Evaluation of child parent treatment centres in Israel

authors: Dori Rivkin

Do ethnic minorities get second best solutions? A comparison of children in care in 2005

authors: Mette Lausten, Tine Egelund

Te Aho Takitoru – An indigenous social work framework

authors: Takiri Cotterill, Frank Rosandich, Joanne Rosandich

Anonymous placement of young victims of violence

authors: Herbert E. Colla, Tanja Corleis, Simon Garbers, Birgit Hein, Anja Jansen, Lea Miczuga

Ritual and physical exercising in the treatment of traumatized bereaved children in the context of political violence

authors: Vered Slonim-Nevo, Itzhak Lander

Supporting legal decision-making in the best interest of the child in Refugee and Asylum law: A model combining psychological and judicial considerations

authors: Margrite Kalverboer, Elianne Zijlstra, Erik J. Knorth

Club Amigas: an effective response to the needs of adolescent latinas

authors: Sandra G. Turner, Carol P. Kaplan and Chaya Piotrkowski

Acculturation and school achievement of refugee children: a case study

authors: Betty Goguikian Ratcliff

Evidence based practice: the new idol?

authors: Hubert M. Pijnenburg, Jan Willem Veerman

Background. Almost 25% of the Swiss population have a foreign origin; 85% of these migrant populations have an European origin (Former-Yougoslavia, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Spain), even though the proportion of non-western populations has grown during the

authors: Lena Robinson

Issues on present and future of kinship foster care

authors: Carme Monserrat Boada

Evaluating Family Support Service

authors: Øivin Christiansen, Bente Moldestad

Strategies for improving the quality and effectiveness of services for troubled children and their families: experiences of youth care in Amsterdam

authors: Ellen Schulze, Theo Schut

Strategies for improving the quality and effectiveness of services for troubled children and their families: experiences of youth care in Drenthe

authors: Mariska van der Steege, Carolien Konijn

A creative systematic implementation of “the practice based” theory within the youth care services of the Flemish community

authors: Johan Peeters, Stefaan Van Mulders, Bart Verstraete

Getting it right for every child - a national approach to enhancing services to vulnerable children and youth in the context of improving outcomes for all children in Scotland

authors: Jane Aldgate, Wendy Rose

Research informed practice? Making a difference?

authors: Margaret McKenzie

Care and education of difficult adolescents: research conclusions and policy implications

authors: David Berridge

Italian and Australian evaluation experience: Building evidence through effective collaboration

authors: Patricia McNamara, Elisabetta Neve

Reflection on professional helping quality

authors: Trijntje Roggen

Research design, effectiveness and evidence

authors: Cinzia Canali, Anna Chiara Frigo, Tiziano Vecchiato

Gifts between family support workers and families: an unacknowledged topic

authors: Bernadette Tillard

Experienced practitioner views of good practice and optimal services for challenging youth

authors: Lloyd Owen

Myths and realities in working with children affected by autism spectrum disorders in residential care

authors: Irene Stevens

The use of action based research to initiate the development of culture change in service delivery to families in crisis and those requiring early intervention

authors: Merle Davies

Patterns of services for maltreated children: an eight year follow-up of english children suffering significant harm

authors: Marian Brandon, June Thoburn

Particularities of building institutional services for Hiv/Aids suffering children in South-Easthern Asia

authors: Ondrej Botek, Nada Kovalčíková

Aboriginal children’s wellbeing and the role of culture: outcomes of an Australian research project into measurements and assessment tools for Aboriginal and Islander children

authors: Jane Harrison, Annette Jackson, Margarita Frederico, Peter Lewis, Sue Anne Hunter

Development and experimentation of a programme, Family Project, for neglectful families: Lessons from research and practice

authors: Michèle Brousseau, Madeleine Beaudry, Marie Simard

Proving culture as resilience works: creating the evidence base

authors: Muriel Bamblett, Peter Lewis

An ecosystemic psychodynamic intervention for children with mild psychosocial problems and academic difficulties: prospects and limits of the evaluation process

authors: Elias E. Kourkoutas

Residential treatment, perceptions and experiences of young people admitted to a remedial treatment centre for young people with mild intellectual disabilities

authors: Xavier M.H. Moonen

Effectiveness of an intervention program focusing on the adoption of abused or neglected children: An outcome study

authors: Genevieve Pagé, Michel Carignan, Marie-Andrée Poirier, Sylvie Normandeau

Institutional routines as social training: Strategies in therapeutic residential care to normalize and re-integrate vulnerable children

authors: Tine Egelund, Turf Böcker Jakobsen

How to foster resilience: learning from outcomes of survivors life stories to foster development and growth of children out of home

authors: Marco Ius, Paola Milani

Children in care: severe troubles or resilience potentials?

authors: Anne-Dorthe Hestbaek, Mette Lausten

Listening to children: a journey through their well being, problems and needs

authors: Roberto Maurizio, Giorgia Salvadori

Young people leaving public care in the United Kingdom: experiences, outcomes and interventions

authors: Jim Wade

Working with the operators to cure deprived adolescents. The relations network clinical setting as an effectual therapeutical means working in complex psycho-social environments

authors: Francesca Codignola, Lucina Bergamaschi, Clorinda Da Pian, Teres

A psycho-educational treatment project for ill-treated and/or abused adolescents

authors: Angela Gesuè, Marilena Balatti, Orietta Bardi, Laura Carrà

The knowledge of educators’ intra-psychic dynamics like protective factors in educative intervention about children who are/live in residential care

authors: Alessandro Taurino, Paola Bastianoni, Licia Barrocu

The efficacy evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of the intervention towards troubled youth and its families: OIKOS Service

authors: Gian Piero Turchi, Angelo Mussoni, Elisa Michielin, Luisa Betto, Andrea Perno, Mara Rachela Scampoli

The educational support for parents of disabled students in a social integration: the experience of MIDA (a model for social integration of disabled students in a business organization)

authors: Roberta Caldin, Maria Rosa Cavalluzzo

Context. The integrated project between professional education and higher education was born to give greater support to disabled students enrolled in schools. This project also developed competencies for working and social integration of the involved peop

authors: Gianna Berligerio, Mario Chimenti, Carlo Hanau, Daniela Mariani Cerati, Nicola Panocchia

Paideia’s recreational activities: Evaluating informal experiences in bringing families together

authors: Fabrizio Serra, Federica Liscio

Counseling as support for families with deaf children

authors: Mariselda Tessarolo

Disabled people: levels of care/citizenship and types of care

authors: Ingrid Berto

Bottom-up Integration: a partnership between the Juvenile Offenders Unit of Offertasociale Community and the Regional Center for Juvenile Justice of the Ministry of Justice

authors: Elena Giudice

To link together personalization and efficacy working in justice

authors: Marilena Sinigaglia, Monia De Paoli

“Essere al mondo, mettere al mondo: una rete cha accoglie”: a network project to support families that are experiencing the parental status

authors: Maria Ferrante, Cristina Marchesini, Barbara Fava

Personalized plans considering both the needs of the person and the family. Results from a research with 15 families with children, and with multiple-problems

authors: Gianmaria Gioga, Monica Pivetti

Access regulation to human services. Recommendations on method and contents

authors: Elena Innocenti