A program under which boys in a residential treatment home paid weekend visits to foster homes proved a successful method of testing the boys' readiness to leave the institution and return to the community. (Author/CS)

Relates the special problems of the homosexual adolescent, focusing specifically on negative social bias and its effect on the adolescent's psychological development and identity formation. (Author/CM)

Presents a retrospective appraisal of the outcome of adoption by comparing perceptions of both adoptive parents and young adult adoptees. (DP)

Describes the staff, clients and program components of the interagency Community Reentry Program, which is designed to facilitate the transition of multi-problem adolescents from institution to community. Program components include vocational counseling, job placement and milieu activities simulating a community-based setting within the…

Describes a preventive and supportive program, providing services to children in their own homes, which uses groupwork techniques to promote the social adjustment and development of children and youth from a black ghetto, while also providing intensive supportive services to the children's families. (JH)

Discusses the role of the caseworker in providing support to children experiencing separation from their families and emphasizes the need to recognize that there are differences between those separation experiences dictated by the needs of children and those dictated by arbitrary or noncasework factors. (AJ)

This critique of the Grow-Shapiro study entitled "Black Children--White Parents" A Study of Transracial Adoption" reviews and unfavorably critizes the study and suggests alternative ways of approaching the topic. (MS)

A reply to a critique of an article on transracial adoption by the authors. (MS)

An experimental program combining pregnant adolescents and nonpregnant girls in group therapy indicated advantages in this approach over group therapy involving only pregnant girls. (Author)

Discusses the development of personal and social identities by the white author's 7-year-old adopted black son. The child's interactions with family, peers and others were studied in order to determine how social facts were used by the child as biographical information and how his social and personal identities might differ or coincide. (BF)

This study examined from a social constructivist view the trauma experienced by Sudanese refugee children in a Midwestern U.S. city. The study explored how the children, their U.S. foster parents, and social workers from a child welfare agency described their understanding of the migration experience. Findings point to the importance of placing…

This study examined the resettlement experiences of unaccompanied Sudanese refugee youth placed in foster care from the perspectives of the youth, foster parents, and agency caseworkers. Youth experienced considerable success. The challenges of adjusting to school and family life, however, suggest a need for funding to support more intensive…

Describes the development of community-based group homes for adolescents operated by a child care agency in affiliation with hospitals in New York City. (SDH)