{"title":"Addressing Complex Needs: Assertive Community Treatment with Afghan Migrant Adolescents in Iran","authors":"Samin Farahzadi, Masoomeh Maarefvand, Samaneh Hosseinzadeh","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01057-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01057-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145711308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1007/s10560-025-01060-8
Amy M. Alberton, Lisa M. J. Milloy, Harvey McCue
In Canada, Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately represented in both the child welfare and criminal legal systems. Despite longstanding recognition of this inequity, limited research has examined the impact of out-of-home child welfare placement on arrest within the Canadian context, particularly for Indigenous populations. This study investigates the relationship between intrusive child welfare involvement and arrest, with a focus on the moderating roles of sex and ethnicity. Using data from Canada’s General Social Survey, four hypotheses were tested. Controlling for all study variables, Indigenous Peoples were approximately four and a half times as likely as White individuals to have been arrested in the past 12 months. Individuals with a history of out-of-home placement were more than twice as likely to have been arrested compared to those without such experience. Indigenous Peoples who had experienced out-of-home placement were nearly six times as likely as their White counterparts to have been arrested. The most extreme disparity was observed among Indigenous females with out-of-home placement histories, who were over 94 times more likely to have been arrested than White females with no such history. Even without placement histories, Indigenous females faced the highest risk of arrest. These findings underscore the profound and compounding risks associated with the removal of Indigenous children, particularly girls, from their homes, highlighting the urgent need for policy and systemic reform.
{"title":"The Main and Intersecting Predictive Effects of Out-of-Home Child Welfare Placement, Sex, and Ethnicity on Arrest in Canada","authors":"Amy M. Alberton, Lisa M. J. Milloy, Harvey McCue","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01060-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01060-8","url":null,"abstract":"In Canada, Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately represented in both the child welfare and criminal legal systems. Despite longstanding recognition of this inequity, limited research has examined the impact of out-of-home child welfare placement on arrest within the Canadian context, particularly for Indigenous populations. This study investigates the relationship between intrusive child welfare involvement and arrest, with a focus on the moderating roles of sex and ethnicity. Using data from Canada’s General Social Survey, four hypotheses were tested. Controlling for all study variables, Indigenous Peoples were approximately four and a half times as likely as White individuals to have been arrested in the past 12 months. Individuals with a history of out-of-home placement were more than twice as likely to have been arrested compared to those without such experience. Indigenous Peoples who had experienced out-of-home placement were nearly six times as likely as their White counterparts to have been arrested. The most extreme disparity was observed among Indigenous females with out-of-home placement histories, who were over 94 times more likely to have been arrested than White females with no such history. Even without placement histories, Indigenous females faced the highest risk of arrest. These findings underscore the profound and compounding risks associated with the removal of Indigenous children, particularly girls, from their homes, highlighting the urgent need for policy and systemic reform.","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145711309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1007/s10560-025-01065-3
Anthony Gómez, Keunhye Park, Andrea Lane Eastman, Mark E. Courtney, Kevin Yu
Sexual minority youth (SMY) transitioning from foster care tend to experience worse outcomes in early adulthood compared to their heterosexual peers. Extended foster care provides crucial services and resources that may improve well-being for SMY transitioning from care. Using data from the longitudinal California Youth Transitions to Adulthood study (CalYOUTH; n = 616), this paper examines relationships between sexual minority status and key outcomes in early adulthood and tests whether these relationships are moderated by extended foster care participation. Bivariate analyses revealed significant variations in young adult outcomes by sexual minority status and extended foster care participation. After accounting for youth and foster care characteristics, linear probability models showed that extended foster care participation significantly increased the probability of postsecondary enrollment, regardless of sexual minority status. Extended foster care participation was associated with higher employment rates, greater housing security, and lower incarceration rates, but only for heterosexual youth. Extended foster care did not lower the probability of SMY having a behavioral health disorder or experiencing economic hardship. This study identifies domains where extended foster care improves SMY well-being and highlights areas of ongoing need. Study findings have implications for future research and policy solutions supporting the well-being of SMY leaving care.
与异性恋同龄人相比,从寄养家庭过渡的性少数青年(SMY)在成年早期往往经历更糟糕的结果。延长寄养提供了重要的服务和资源,可以改善从护理过渡的中小学生的福祉。利用加州青少年向成年过渡纵向研究(CalYOUTH; n = 616)的数据,本文检验了性少数地位与成年早期关键结果之间的关系,并检验了这些关系是否受到长期寄养参与的调节。双变量分析显示,性少数身份和长期寄养参与对青年成人结局有显著影响。在考虑了青少年和寄养特征后,线性概率模型显示,无论性少数身份如何,延长寄养参与时间显著增加了中学后入学的概率。长期的寄养参与与更高的就业率、更高的住房保障和更低的监禁率有关,但仅适用于异性恋青年。延长寄养时间并没有降低SMY患有行为健康障碍或经历经济困难的可能性。本研究确定了延长寄养改善中小学生福利的领域,并强调了持续需求的领域。研究结果对未来的研究和政策解决方案具有启示意义,这些研究和政策解决方案支持中小学生离开护理的福祉。
{"title":"The Developmental Implications of Extended Foster Care for Sexual Minority Youth","authors":"Anthony Gómez, Keunhye Park, Andrea Lane Eastman, Mark E. Courtney, Kevin Yu","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01065-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01065-3","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual minority youth (SMY) transitioning from foster care tend to experience worse outcomes in early adulthood compared to their heterosexual peers. Extended foster care provides crucial services and resources that may improve well-being for SMY transitioning from care. Using data from the longitudinal California Youth Transitions to Adulthood study (CalYOUTH; n = 616), this paper examines relationships between sexual minority status and key outcomes in early adulthood and tests whether these relationships are moderated by extended foster care participation. Bivariate analyses revealed significant variations in young adult outcomes by sexual minority status and extended foster care participation. After accounting for youth and foster care characteristics, linear probability models showed that extended foster care participation significantly increased the probability of postsecondary enrollment, regardless of sexual minority status. Extended foster care participation was associated with higher employment rates, greater housing security, and lower incarceration rates, but only for heterosexual youth. Extended foster care did not lower the probability of SMY having a behavioral health disorder or experiencing economic hardship. This study identifies domains where extended foster care improves SMY well-being and highlights areas of ongoing need. Study findings have implications for future research and policy solutions supporting the well-being of SMY leaving care.","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145608832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1007/s10560-025-01069-z
Amir Kabunga, Maxson Kenneth Anyolitho, Viola Nalwoga, Samsom Udho, Marvin Musinguzi, Ann Grace Auma, Eustes Kigongo, Odette Murara
{"title":"Ubuntu in Exile: Indigenous Notions of Community and Social Justice among Adolescent Refugees in Northern Uganda","authors":"Amir Kabunga, Maxson Kenneth Anyolitho, Viola Nalwoga, Samsom Udho, Marvin Musinguzi, Ann Grace Auma, Eustes Kigongo, Odette Murara","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01069-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01069-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145608833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1007/s10560-025-01067-1
Metin Gani Tapan
{"title":"I Can’t Hold On: Understanding the Instability of Female Syrian Care Leavers in Turkey","authors":"Metin Gani Tapan","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01067-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01067-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145608861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Children newly placed in public care are particularly vulnerable to disruption. Yet, there is notably lack of research and theorization about moves between care arrangements. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a Norwegian care arrangement that combines residential with specialized foster care, this article explores how moves between care arrangements are facilitated and experienced by various carers—including foster carers, parents, foster care consultants, residential staff, and managers—all of whom were interviewed for the study. These moves are analyzed through the conceptual lens of multilayered transitions, with the aim of contributing both empirical insights and theoretical development. The analysis highlights the interconnected and precarious nature of transitions in care, and the importance of flexible timeframes, collaborative practices, and inclusive relational approaches in supporting the child. The article proposes the concept of “supported transitions in care” and discusses its relevance for understanding the processes and practices involved, as well as for promoting sustainability in public care.
{"title":"Supported Transitions in Public Care: A Case Study from a Norwegian Child Welfare Context","authors":"Inger-Lise Negård, Inger Oterholm, Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01066-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01066-2","url":null,"abstract":"Children newly placed in public care are particularly vulnerable to disruption. Yet, there is notably lack of research and theorization about moves between care arrangements. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a Norwegian care arrangement that combines residential with specialized foster care, this article explores how moves between care arrangements are facilitated and experienced by various carers—including foster carers, parents, foster care consultants, residential staff, and managers—all of whom were interviewed for the study. These moves are analyzed through the conceptual lens of multilayered transitions, with the aim of contributing both empirical insights and theoretical development. The analysis highlights the interconnected and precarious nature of transitions in care, and the importance of flexible timeframes, collaborative practices, and inclusive relational approaches in supporting the child. The article proposes the concept of “supported transitions in care” and discusses its relevance for understanding the processes and practices involved, as well as for promoting sustainability in public care.","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145608834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Many countries across the globe have enacted leaving care policy to make provision for transition planning and aftercare support for care-leavers who face significant challenges in adulthood. However, the extent to which care-leaver policy addresses the unique needs of disabled youth leaving care is not known. This paper seeks to address this gap in knowledge by analysing care-leaver policy in four countries (United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Australia) with a specific focus on how well they address disability issues. A key finding is the lack of consistency in the explicit recognition of disabled youth in care-leaving policy and an absence of directives to guide the adaptation and implementation of policy for disabled care-leavers. There is also a fragmentation in aftercare support with an increasing individualist approach grounded in normative assumptions for independent adulthood and a medical model of disability with a parallel retraction or redirection of formal regulation that impacts on disabled youth transitions from care. The paper concludes with recommendations for developing policy to give greater recognition to the needs of disabled care-leavers and their non-normative pathways from care into adulthood that require a refocus on interdependence, youth voice, extended aftercare support and collaborative services.
{"title":"Disabled Youth Transitioning from Care: An International Policy Analysis","authors":"Berni Kelly, Gilbert Gimm, Oterholm Inger, Jemma Venables, Claire Baker, Ingri-Hanne Braenne Bennwik, Kathy Ellem, JoAnn S. Lee, Leah P. Cheatham","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01061-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01061-7","url":null,"abstract":"Many countries across the globe have enacted leaving care policy to make provision for transition planning and aftercare support for care-leavers who face significant challenges in adulthood. However, the extent to which care-leaver policy addresses the unique needs of disabled youth leaving care is not known. This paper seeks to address this gap in knowledge by analysing care-leaver policy in four countries (United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Australia) with a specific focus on how well they address disability issues. A key finding is the lack of consistency in the explicit recognition of disabled youth in care-leaving policy and an absence of directives to guide the adaptation and implementation of policy for disabled care-leavers. There is also a fragmentation in aftercare support with an increasing individualist approach grounded in normative assumptions for independent adulthood and a medical model of disability with a parallel retraction or redirection of formal regulation that impacts on disabled youth transitions from care. The paper concludes with recommendations for developing policy to give greater recognition to the needs of disabled care-leavers and their non-normative pathways from care into adulthood that require a refocus on interdependence, youth voice, extended aftercare support and collaborative services.","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"165 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-16DOI: 10.1007/s10560-025-01054-6
Walter C. Millanzi, Maulid K. Shaha
{"title":"Exclusive Breastfeeding Knowledge, Practice, and Perceived Challenges Among In-School Adolescent Mothers in Dodoma Region, Tanzania","authors":"Walter C. Millanzi, Maulid K. Shaha","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01054-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01054-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145531599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-16DOI: 10.1007/s10560-025-01064-4
Dominique Mikell Montgomery, Thom Reilly
{"title":"“To Be Honest, It was Just the Hope”: Why Transition-Age Youth Enroll and Remain in State-Initiated Extended Foster Care","authors":"Dominique Mikell Montgomery, Thom Reilly","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01064-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01064-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145532089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship Between Parents’ Digital Parenting Awareness, Their Social Media Parenting Practices, and The Social Media Usage Levels of Their Children Aged 6–18","authors":"Aysel Topan, Emine Uzuntarla Güney, Betül Akkoç, Sümeyye Özdemir, Fadime Üstüner Top","doi":"10.1007/s10560-025-01059-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01059-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51512,"journal":{"name":"Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145531600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}