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Carter, Vernon B. – Child Welfare, 2011
Historically, American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) children have been disproportionately represented in the foster care system. In this study, nationally representative child welfare data from October 1999 was used to compare urban AI/AN children to non-Indian children placed into out-of-home care. Compared to non-Indian children, urban AI/AN…
Descriptors: Urban American Indians, Alaska Natives, Child Welfare, Alcohol Abuse
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Jeanty, Guy C.; Hibel, James – Qualitative Report, 2011
This article describes a mixed methods approach used to explore the experiences of adult family care home (AFCH) residents and informal caregivers (IC). A rationale is presented for using a mixed methods approach employing the sequential exploratory design with this poorly researched population. The unique challenges attendant to the sampling…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Caregivers, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Jansen, Anne – Journal of Youth Studies, 2010
Young people who live in residential care are caught between discourses of being a victim of abuse and inadequate care or being a troublemaker by their own conduct. Both discourses are rooted in the reasons for placement, and they will offer subject positions that are experienced as troubled. Repeated interviews with young people living in…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Child Abuse, Young Adults, Victims of Crime
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Digney, John – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
Emotional pain which manifests itself in problem behaviours is, for many children and youth, a part of their everyday struggle through life. Kids growing up in residential care or in a dysfunctional family or setting suffer this pain. Connecting with kids in pain, the primary task for youth workers, is made all the more difficult, the greater the…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Children, Adolescents, Humor
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Gharabaghi, Kiaras – Child Welfare, 2011
This article presents a synthesis of what is known about the educational experiences of youth living in residential group care based on a literature review that highlights both the experiences of the youth themselves and the operational context of residential group care in Ontario as it pertains to educational performance. The author argues that…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Youth, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Stuart, Carol; Sanders, Larry; Gurevich, Maria; Fulton, Robert – Child Welfare, 2011
This article describes the effect of a province-wide vision of evidence-based and outcome-based services for children and youth and the challenges of implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) and evidence-based treatment (EBT) approaches within group care settings. The paper is based on the results of a survey of group care settings in the…
Descriptors: Evidence, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Arshad, Saadia; Winterhalder, Robert; Underwood, Lisa; Kelesidi, Katerina; Chaplin, Eddie; Kravariti, Eugenia; Anagnostopoulos, Dimitrios; Bouras, Nick; McCarthy, Jane; Tsakanikos, Elias – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Although epilepsy is particularly common among people with intellectual disability (ID) it remains unclear whether it is associated with an increased likelihood of co-morbid psychopathology. We therefore investigated rates of mental health problems and other clinical characteristics in patients with ID and epilepsy (N=156) as compared to patients…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, Schizophrenia, Mental Health
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Deb, Sibnath; Mukherjee, Aparna; Mathews, Ben – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The broad objective of this study was to understand the incidence and severity of aggression among sexually abused girls who were trafficked and who were then further used for commercial sexual exploitation (referred to subsequently as sexually abused trafficked girls). In addition, the impact of counseling for minimizing aggression in these girls…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Females, Psychological Testing, Program Effectiveness
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Brune, Kendall – Educational Gerontology, 2011
To discuss the relationship between residents and the management team, we must first review the transition from a medical model to a social model of care that is sweeping across America. Long-term care (LTC) management models were developed for a very autocratic and hierarchical style of management based in the 1960s. Those facilities were built…
Descriptors: Health Services, Older Adults, Administrative Organization, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
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Spellman, Douglas F.; Griffith, Annette K.; Huefner, Jonathan C.; Wise, Neil, III; McElderry, Ellen; Leslie, Laurel K. – Child Welfare, 2010
This article presents a psychotropic medication management approach that is used within a residential care program. The approach is used to assess medications at youths' times of entry and to facilitate decision making during care. Data from a typical case study have indicated that by making medication management decisions slowly, systematically,…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Drug Therapy, Youth Programs, Decision Making
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Southwell, Jenni; Fraser, Elizabeth – Child Welfare, 2010
This paper presents findings from a landmark Australian study investigating the experiences and perspectives of young people in residential care. Data from a representative sample are analyzed to identify young people's satisfaction with various aspects of their residential care experience: their sense of safety, normality, support, comfort in…
Descriptors: Barriers, Residential Care, Adolescents, Child Welfare
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Munson, Michelle R.; McMillen, Curtis – Social Work Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine the trajectories of depressive symptoms as older youths from the foster care system mature while also examining the correlates of these trajectories. Data came from a longitudinal study of 404 youths from the foster care system in Missouri, who were interviewed nine times between their 17th and 19th…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Depression (Psychology), Social Work, Foster Care
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Metraux, Stephen; Byrne, Thomas; Culhane, Dennis P. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
This study empirically examines the link between homelessness and discharges from other institutions. An administrative record match was undertaken to determine rates of discharge from institutional care for 9,247 unaccompanied adult shelter users in New York City. Cluster analysis and multinomial logistic regression analysis was then used to…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Multivariate Analysis, Housing Needs, Emergency Shelters
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Kyriacou, Chris; Ellingsen, Ingunn Tollisen; Stephens, Paul; Sundaram, Vanita – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2009
Social pedagogy as practice refers to actions on the part of adults to promote the personal development, social education and general well-being of the child alongside or in place of parents in a range of educational and social care settings (e.g. pre-school play groups, residential care homes, youth clubs). This paper focuses how the notion of…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Welfare Services
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Mitchell, Pamela R. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Background: Communication skills are important to the pursuit of increased self-determination in individuals with disabilities. The aim of this investigation was to gather information about communication supports in state-run residential care facilities in Ohio, and to compare findings with a previous investigation on this topic examining such…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Disabilities, Allied Health Personnel, Group Homes
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