Judy Havlicek
Judy Havlicek
Placement instability remains a vexing problem for child welfare agencies across the country. This study uses child welfare administrative data to retrospectively follow the entire placement histories (birth to age 17.5) of 474 foster youth...
Does food insecurity affect parental characteristics and child behavior? Testing mediation effects [0.03%]
食物不安全会影响父母特征和儿童行为吗？测试中介效应
Jin Huang,Karen M Matta Oshima,Youngmi Kim
Jin Huang
Using two waves of data from the Child Development Supplement in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study investigates whether parental characteristics (parenting stress, parental warmth, psychological distress, and parent's self-este...
Child support enforcement and fathers' contributions to their nonmarital children [0.03%]
儿童抚养费追缴与非婚生子女的父亲养育行为之间的关系研究
Lenna Nepomnyaschy,Irwin Garfinkel
Lenna Nepomnyaschy
This study examines the total package of child support that mothers receive from the nonresident fathers of their children, by focusing on three components of total support: formal cash, informal cash, and in-kind support. Using the Fragile...
Sense of Community as a Protective Factor against Long-Term Psychological Effects of Childhood Violence [0.03%]
社区认同感作为童年暴力长期心理影响的保护因素
Emily A Greenfield,Nadine F Marks
Emily A Greenfield
This study uses a risk and resilience framework for conceptualizing the long-term effects of childhood family violence on mental health. It examines sense of community as a protective factor against adult psychological distress associated w...
Integrating Children's Savings Accounts in the Care and Support of Orphaned Adolescents in Rural Uganda [0.03%]
乌干达农村地区将儿童储蓄账户纳入孤儿照顾和支持体系中的研究
Fred M Ssewamala,Leyla Ismayilova
Fred M Ssewamala
This study examines an economic empowerment model of care and support for orphaned adolescents in rural Uganda. Under this model, 277 AIDS-orphaned youths (ages 11-17) from 15 comparable schools were randomly assigned to either the usual ca...
Vivia V McCutcheon
Vivia V McCutcheon
Accumulating evidence about the effects of genetics on mental disorders has given rise to calls to incorporate knowledge of gene-environment interactions into social work teaching, research, and practice. Social workers must become aware of...
Approaching the Transition to Adulthood: Distinctive Profiles of Adolescents Aging out of the Child Welfare System [0.03%]
走向成人世界：儿童福利体系中逐渐年长青少年的特征分析
Thomas E Keller,Gretchen Ruth Cusick,Mark E Courtney
Thomas E Keller
The transition to adulthood is marked by new roles and responsibilities in such interrelated domains as education, employment, and family formation. This study investigates the capacity of adolescents on the verge of emancipation from the c...
Russian family policy in transition: implications for families and professionals [0.03%]
转型期的俄罗斯家庭政策——对家庭和从业人员的影响
A C Butler,L G Kuraeva
A C Butler
Neighborhoods, Family, and Substance Use: Comparisons of the Relations across Racial and Ethnic Groups [0.03%]
邻里、家庭与物质使用：跨种族和族裔群体的比较研究
Yoonsun Choi,Tracy W Harachi,Richard F Catalano
Yoonsun Choi
This study examines how substance use among adolescents is related to several risk and protective factors derived from two ecological contexts: the neighborhood and the family. It explicitly investigates how the relationships between substa...
Disjunctures for Women and Frontline Workers: Implementation of the Family Violence Option [0.03%]
妇女和一线工人在执行家庭暴力选项时面临的挑战
Taryn Lindhorst,Julianna D Padgett
Taryn Lindhorst
This research uses analysis of qualitative interviews with 10 battered welfare clients and 15 frontline welfare workers to examine the implementation of the Family Violence Option (FVO) under welfare reform. States adopting the FVO agree to...