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McCrae, Julie S.; Barth, Richard P. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2008
Objective: This study tests the hypothesis that information typically collected during a maltreatment investigation can be used to screen children for mental health problems. Method: Data are from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Cumulative risk scores were created for 3,022 children and compared to reports of clinical-level…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Mental Health, Adolescents, At Risk Persons
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Barth, Richard P.; And Others – Social Work Research, 1994
Used data on 496 children who had been in foster care before adoption to examine effects of child characteristics on odds that child would remain in long-term foster care and length of time for adoption agreement to be legalized. Age, history of abuse/neglect, ethnicity, and planned foster parent adoption program were major determinants of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Age Differences, Child Abuse