Ejournal Issues
2013 Issue 1-2013
Issue 1-2013
Cover article
This issue is devoted to the 7th International Foster Care Research Network Meeting held in Padova, Italy, on September 9-11, 2013, in collaboration with Fondazione Zancan, International Association for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children's Services (iaOBERfcs), and Fondazione Paideia.
Foster care: issues and strategies
Content
Entrusting or Caring: care pathways in Italy
authors: Cinzia Canali and Tiziano Vecchiato
Evaluation of the circle therapeutic foster care program in Victoria, Australia: Outcomes and implications
authors: Patricia McNamara, Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Lynne McPherson, Richard Rose and Kathy Gilbert
Permanence in long-term foster care: family relationships and professional systems
authors: Gillian Schofield
Meeting the needs of foster children with (complex) trauma and their foster families: A recent initiative in the Netherlands
authors: Hans Grietens
How does a new training program Pride for foster families work in Lithuania?
authors: Dalija Snieškienė
A family for a family: The Italian experience
authors: Giorgia Salvadori and Fabrizio Serra
Reunification, process of transformation, multiperspectivity, retro- & prospective
authors: Klaus Wolf, Daniela Reimer and Dirk Schäfer
The development of problem behaviour in foster children: A Flemish longitudinal research
authors: Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Femke Vanschoonlandt, Skrallan De Maeyer and Marijke Robberechts
Making the right decision: A comparison between professionals approaches
authors: Cinzia Canali, Roberto Maurizio and Nina Biehal
Contact Family: A preventive supporting intervention or a kind of placement for children and teenagers?
authors: Lotta Berg Eklundh
Cross-national comparison of caseworkers’ attitudes towards child welfare issues and their impact in risk assessments and decisions to place a child out-of-home
authors: Mónica López, A. Carien Koopmans and Erik J. Knorth, Cilia Witteman, Rami Benbenishty, Bilhah Davidson-Arad, Jorge F. del Valle, Trevor Spratt, David Hayes and John Devaney
Head, Heart, Hands programme: Introducing social pedagogy into UK foster care
authors: Lisa Holmes and Raina Sheridan
Protecting overseas children in informal care arrangements: A UK-based model for social work practice
authors: Angela Wilson and Karen Wells
Evaluating a group support program for kinship foster families: evidence on how to enhance resilience
authors: Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Pere Amorós, Mª Angels Balsells, Mª Cruz Molina, Crescencia Pastor and Ainoa Mateos
Increasing the benefits of foster carer peer support
authors: Nikki Luke and Judy Sebba