Interventions targeting the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people in higher-income countries: Evidence map and systematic …

R Evans, S MacDonald, R Trubey, J Noyes… - Systematic …, 2023 - Springer
Background The mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young
people (ie foster care, kinship care, residential care) is poorer than non-care-experienced …

Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents' mental health

Y Xu, Q Wu, SE Levkoff, M Jedwab - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of many families,
including grandparent kinship families, to deal with a health/economic crisis. The fear of …

A narrative review of mental and relational health interventions for children in family‐based out‐of‐home care

M Tarren‐Sweeney - Journal of Family Therapy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The present article reviews the evidence base for psychosocial interventions provided to
children in family‐based out‐of‐home care that seek to improve children's mental health, felt …

[HTML][HTML] Pilot randomized controlled trial of an attachment-and trauma-focused intervention for kinship caregivers

DS Pasalich, MM Moretti, A Hassall, A Curcio - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Kinship care placements are increasing in many Western countries, however
families in kinship care are underserved partly due to the lack of evidence-based …

Risk and protective factors for African American kinship caregiving: A scoping review

Q Wu, Y Zhu, K Brevard, S Wu, J Krysik - Children and youth services …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background African American children are disproportionately placed in kinship
care, specifically with kin caregivers who have pressing service needs given their relatively …

Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers

T Washington, QL Walton, H Kaye… - Child & Family …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
African American caregivers providing informal kinship care are vulnerable to chronic stress.
Research has indicated stress increases individuals' risk for many adverse physical and …

Discrepancies between children's and caregivers' child maltreatment reporting and their associations with child wellbeing

S Zhang, Y Xu, JS Hong, M Liu, M Liao - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Child maltreatment reporting is critical for case investigation and service
disposition. However, reporting discrepancies across informants is a challenge for child …

Trauma-informed care psychoeducational group-based interventions for foster carers and adoptive parents: A narrative review

M Lotty, E Bantry-White… - Adoption & Fostering, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Trauma-informed care (TIC) psychoeducational group-based interventions for foster carers
and adoptive parents are growing, but evidence about their effects have not been integrated …

Strength and Resilience for Kinship Caregivers Raising Children: A Scoping Review

Q Wu, Y Xu, F Pei, N Lim - Societies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Kinship care is a preferred living arrangement for children when they have to separate from
their birth parents due to various reasons. Although kinship care emphasized family and …

The association between grandparents as caregivers and overdose mortality in Appalachia and non-Appalachia counties

KE Beatty, SM Mathis, AR McCurry… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective To assess the association of drug overdose mortality with grandparents serving as
caregivers of children in Appalachia and non-Appalachia in the US Methods This study used …