Ejournal Issues
2009 Issue 2
Issue 2

Cover article
Experiences with children and families in difficulties
Content
Goal attainment in youth care in the Netherlands. Effectiveness of needs led care
authors: Marion Welling
Try again, Sam
authors: Silvana Fantini, Sandro Scanavino
Casket Project (Progetto Scrigno): the treasure of the origins, the richness of the present, the well-integrated identity development
authors: Maura Zandonai, Nicoletta Poli, Sabina Grigolli
An approach for the link between social levels and child maltreat-ment by social network analysis
authors: Gillonne Desquesnes
Octagon-Octaplay: play group challenge 1963-1981 and child care training and play 1981-1991
authors: Rosemary Pickering, Betty Rathbone
The protection of children and families experiencing difficulties with a view to services’ cooperation: intervention strategies and evalua-tion of the process: The experience of the Aulss 17 – Este
authors: Luisa Betto, Maria Luisa Scampoli, Gian Piero Turchi, Angelo Mussoni
Offering a life project to children: an approach that is increasingly anchored in the practices of youth protection in Quebec
authors: Esther Montambault, Denis Trudelle, Jean-Luc Gosselin
Bringing safety and joy into a child’s life
authors: Liisa Heino, Päivi Salomaa
The impact of trauma on children in protection and care: an ap-proach to understanding trauma through the use of assessment and outcome measures
authors: Carly Black, Margarita Frederico, Annette Jackson, Trish McCluskey
Effectiveness of group therapy for sexually abused female adoles-cents: Follow-up six months after treatment
authors: Marc Tourigny, Leechen Farkas
Social inclusion of adoptive children and adolescents at school
authors: Alessandra Moro, Federica Elmetti, Michela Franchetti, Alessia Zanetti
Assessments in Child Welfare Service: Experiences from a model in-spired by empowerment and network thinking
authors: Dag Skilbred, Anette Christine Iversen and Toril Havik
The psycho-social treatment of the maltreated children: a follow-up study
authors: Antonio Maria Corato, Paola Baglioni
Implementing randomized experiments: an evaluation of multisys-temic therapy in The Netherlands
authors: Willeke Manders, Maja Dekovic, Jessica Asscher
Program design and evaluation for at-risk children and youth: pre-venting developmental impairment
authors: Maria Manuela Calheiros
Short-term effects of parental risk contexts in infants’ development
authors: Leonor Rodrigues, Maria Manuela Calheiros, Salomé V. Santos
A new service for early development promotion in an emergency care setting
authors: Salomé V. Santos
New practices for youth's residential care: promoting autonomy de-velopment
authors: Ana Martins
Implementation and development processes of a new service for long-term institutionalized youth
authors: Carla Moleiro
The risk of continuity of institutional culture: the case of the residen-tial care for children
authors: Federico Zullo, Paola Bastianoni
The Looking After Children approach in four child protection centres in Quebec: the effects on the evolution of children in care
authors: Marie-Claude Simard, Marie-Andrée Poirier, Véronique Noël
Differential evaluation of residential programmes for children
authors: Angela Torbay Betancor, Eduardo Martín Cabrera
Personal, school and social adjustment of children in residential care
authors: Maria Dolores García Hernández, Eduardo Martín Cabrera
Quality 4 Children
authors: Samantha Tedesco, Werner Hilweg, Christian Posch, Franco Colizzi
Social support network and adjustment of children in residential child care
authors: Eduardo Martin
Organizational ethnography of a residential service for out-of-home children
authors: Marzia Saglietti
The Veneto project to accompanying and support adoptive families: Padua’s experience
authors: Marta Macchi, Ilaria Parrinello, Barbara Segatto, Simonetta Valentini
The Webster Stratton Incredible Years (IY) Basic Parenting Pro-gramme: Parental satisfaction in a community group of Portuguese parents
authors: Maria João Seabra Santos, Maria Filomena Fonseca Gaspar
Intensive home visiting programme for multiproblem families. Back-ground and implementation of effectiveness study
authors: Denise Bodden, Maja Dekovic, Cathy van Tuijl
Differences and similarities between the experiences of mothers and fathers of a child with a disability: the point of view of parents
authors: Diane Pelchat, Car Lacharité, Germain Dulac, Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin
Crisis intervention for families: The search for effective elements
authors: Channa Al, Geert Jan Stams, Peter van der Laan
Biological parent implication as a factor of foster child social devel-opment
authors: Séverine Euillet, Olivia Troupel-Cremel, Amandine Baude, Chantal Zaouche Gaudron
Longitudinal impacts of a multimodal intervention program ad-dressed to ADHD children and their parental stress
authors: Line Massé, Martine Verreault, Claudia Verret, Phillipe Lageix, Marie-Claude Guay
Stories of Success and Failure among immigrant adolescents at risk: Developing a family/community based model of intervention
authors: Ludmila Rubinstein, Julia Mirsky, Vered Slonim-Nevo
Impacts of environmental factors on cognitive development of immi-grant children from developing countries
authors: Anne J. Choquette, Danielle Blanchard, Marie-Claude Guay
Homo-cultural fostering, natural boundary of the protection of for-eign children
authors: Anna Maria Giarola
2008 Issue 2
Issue 2

Cover article
This issue is devoted to the international conference on outcome based evaluation on child and family services held in Padova (Italy) in 2008.
Findings from research and practice
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
Finding a path to the evidence: A research strategy for a therapeutic program
authors: Margarita Frederico, Annette Jackson, Carly Black
High-conflict parental divorce: children’s experiences
authors: Per Arne Rǿd
Adapting, manualizing and evaluating an evidence based CBT Group of intervention for youth with depressive symptoms for delivery in school-based settings
authors: Mary C. Ruffolo, Daniel Fischer, Sarah Fraley, Kristy Postlewaite, Shannon Hill, Dave Neal
Evaluation of the outcomes of secure accommodation in Scotland
authors: Andrew Kendrick, Moira Walker, Aileen Barclay and Lynne Hunter
Barrier to treatment in Shenzhen, China: a qualitative study on the experiences of Chinese families facing eating disorders
authors: Joyce L.C. Ma, Xu Wen Yan, Chen Xiangyi
Outcomes assessment in residential care: a long term evaluation
authors: Jorge F. Del Valle, Amaia Bravo
Parenting support within Child and Family. Evolution towards more evidence-based services
authors: Benedikte Van den Bruel
The reluctant role of the Federal Government in Child Welfare in the United States
authors: John Sciamanna
Reforming Child Protection Systems: policy considerations from an Australian perspective
authors: Robyn Miller, Chris Asquini
Contextual practice in residential care: the Cano projects
authors: Hans Grietens
Working with the family-context of young people in residential care
authors: Esther M.W. Geurts, Erik J. Knorth, Marc J. Noom
Changing directions for challenging children and their families
authors: Wendy Rose, Jane Aldgate
Family reunification of adolescents placed in foster care: intervention and research perspectives
authors: Marie-Claude Simard
Longitudinal research in parenting stress and behavioural problems in foster care
authors: Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Lenny Trogh
Agreement between foster child and foster parent in the severity of problem behaviour
authors: Johan Strijker, Simon Oijen
The US adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system and cross-national research on foster care
authors: Robin Spath
First results from the translation, implementation and researching of the Webster-Stratton incredible years (iy) basic parenting programme in Portugal
authors: Maria Filomena Gaspar, Maria João Seabra-Santos
Background. In Portugal the awareness of the potential of the delivery of parenting programmes as a promotion, prevention and intervention strategy to improve children well-being is growing, both at governmental and local services levels. The use of paren
authors: Kristien Lacluyse, Hans Grietens, Walter Hellinckx
Long-term effectiveness of the parenting support program Home-Start
authors: Anna H. Rutgers, Peter J. Hoffenaar, Jessica J. Asscher, Maja Deković and Jo M. A. Hermanns
Working with parents of troubled and troublesome young people at risk of care
authors: Nina Biehal
Mapping the impact of children’s advocacy services
authors: Andrew Pithouse
Foster care and sense of belonging: the voices of the children of the foster families
authors: Barbara Ongari
How do children fare in care: a longitudinal study of outcomes
authors: Elizabeth Fernandez
Pluridisabled child and his/her family in care. Autobiographical accounts of families about quality of social and health services and participated construction of an early care model
authors: Roberta Caldin, Paola Milani, Simone Visentin
2010 Issue 2
Issue 2

Cover article
This issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives – Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)
Content
Leaving state residential Care in Bucharest: what supports and hinders the transition
authors: Roxana Anghel
Aftercare in a Norwegian context
authors: Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
Formative and Summative Evaluation of a Program to Facilitate Transition from Care in Israel
authors: Rami Benbenishty, Anat Zeira, and Alexandra Magnus
Improving transitions to adulthood of young people leaving care in Romania
authors: Gabriela Dima, Dr. Caroline Skehill
Transition to adulthood for young Swedish care leavers
authors: Ingrid Höjer and Yvonne Sjöblom
Transitioning out of residential care in Jordan: pathways and outcomes. Emerging findings and recommendations from a doctoral research study in progress
authors: Rawan W. Ibrahim. Supervisors: Dr. Jonathan Dickens, Prof. David Howe
Pregnant pathways
authors: Bruce Leslie
Identity exploration in emerging adulthood: how does it apply to at-risk youths?
authors: Julie Marcotte
State care as a pathway to homelessness: implications for the transition to adulthood
authors: Paula Mayock and Nicola Carr
A structural analysis of young people leaving state care in Victoria, Australia
authors: Philip Mendes and Badal Moslehuddin
Transition to adulthood: the Equip program
authors: Véronique Noël, Martin Goyette, Marie-Noële Royer and Geneviève Chénier
How do the child welfare services in Norway work with young people leaving care?
authors: Inger Oterholm
Building a future together: issues and outcomes for transition aged youth
authors: Carrie Reid and Peter Dudding
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": the self-reliant identity as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care
authors: Gina Miranda Samuels
New transitions to employment – a biographical approach to forms of cooperation between rearing support services and employment promotion agents
authors: Wolfgang Schröer, . Stefan Köngeter, Maren Zeller
Islington Career Start: how Islington’s employment scheme has improved the transitions to adulthood for looked after young people and care leavers
authors: Nikki Smith
The transition to adulthood for young people leaving public care: international comparisons and perspectives
authors: Mike Stein and Emily R. Munro
Exit from care - developing a perspective
authors: Jan Storø
2013 Issue 2-2013
Issue 2-2013

Cover article
This issue is devoted to the 7th International Foster Care Research Network Meetingheld 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: specific issues and experiences
Content
Outcomes and life courses of children taken into care
authors: Heidi Pohjanpalo
Fostering adolescents: how to recover the relationship with the mother thanks to another woman’s help
authors: Gemma Beretta and Germana Cavallini
What school means to young people in foster care in Sweden
authors: Lena Hedin
The challenges for family foster care of children in the Province of Bolzano: trend analysis 2005-2012
authors: Sabine Krismer
Motivation for foster care
authors: Skrallan De Maeyer, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Femke Vanschoonlandt, Marijke Robberechts and Frank Van Holen
Tie caring in the context of fostering
authors: Marianna Giordano and Chiara Capasso
Efficacy of a Flemish foster parent intervention for foster children aged 3 to 12 with externalizing problems
authors: Femke Vanschoonlandt, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Skrällan De Maeyer and Marijke Robberechts
Experiment on a bilingual cross cultural approach in a foster care situation: an access to childhood’s memories (segregated systems) of maternal grandfather’s foster care family
authors: Fabrizio Gori
Disinterest of child protection for kinship care in the north of France
authors: Bernadette Tillard and Lille University
Constructing grounded theory focused on youth’s rights in residential care
authors: Eunice Magalhães and Maria Manuela Calheiros
Participatory planning: Involvement as an outcome
authors: Massimiliano Ferrua
Vulnerable young people in Israel: Their stories about transition to adulthood
authors: Anat Zeira
Overview of programs aiming to increase the involvement of birth parents in foster care
authors: Marijke Robberechts, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Skrällan De Maeyer and Femke Vanschoonlandt
Preventing child placement through the help between families. The experience of family helpers in the program P.I.P.P.I.
authors: Marco Ius, Sara Serbati, Diego Di Masi, Ombretta Zanon, Adriana Ciampa, Raffaele Tangorra and Paola Milani
Family relationships in a sample of non relative foster families from Madrid: The representation of the family «confines» and the place of the birth family
authors: María Teresa Díaz Tártalo
Foster care in Portugal. Evidence of the present, challenges for the future
authors: Paulo Delgado, João Carvalho and Vânia S. Pinto
Foster care as outcome strategy of deinstitutionalization process in Croatia
authors: Antonija Zizak, Ivana Jedud Boric and Ivana Maurovic
Changes in the nature and sequence of placements experienced by children in care in England and Wales 1980-2010
authors: Roger Bullock