Research on the caretaking of children of incarcerated parents: Findings and their service delivery implications

TE Hanlon, SB Carswell, M Rose - Children and youth services review, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper reviews research findings on caretaking-related problems associated with the
absence of parents from the home following incarceration. It focuses on the impact of …

Empowering African American women informal caregivers: A literature synthesis and practice strategies

LA Chadiha, P Adams, DE Biegel, W Auslander… - Social Work, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Through a synthesis of literature on caregiving, empowerment, social inequalities, and racial
disparities in health and income, the authors built an argument for African American women …

Emotional and behavioral problems of Chinese left-behind children: a preliminary study

F Fan, L Su, MK Gill, B Birmaher - Social psychiatry and psychiatric …, 2010 - Springer
Objective To examine the behavioral and emotional problems and their correlates in left-
behindchildren (LBC) in the Hunan Province of China. Methods A sample of 1,274 …

Health-related quality of life of parents of children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders

GK Lee, C Lopata, MA Volker… - Focus on autism …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The physical and mental health-related quality of life (QOL) of 89 parents of children with
high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASDs) was compared to the health-related …

Risk of psychological difficulties among children raised by custodial grandparents

GC Smith, PA Palmieri - Psychiatric Services, 2007 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Although custodial grandchildren are believed to be at greater risk of emotional
and behavioral problems than children in general, scant research has examined this …

Behavior problems in children raised by grandmothers: The role of caregiver distress, family resources, and the home environment

SJ Kelley, DM Whitley, PE Campos - Children and youth services Review, 2011 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades there has been a dramatic increase in children being raised by
grandparents due to a variety of factors including child maltreatment, parental abandonment …

Parenting stress of grandparents and other kin as informal kinship caregivers: A mixed methods study

E Lee, M Clarkson-Hendrix, Y Lee - Children and Youth Services Review, 2016 - Elsevier
Informal kinship caregivers provide the majority of out of home care to children who can no
longer safely stay with their biological parent. Yet their parenting challenges are …

Custodial grandmothers' physical, mental, and economic well‐being: Comparisons of primary caregivers from low‐income neighborhoods

HJ Bachman, PL Chase‐Lansdale - Family Relations, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
To examine the implications of custodial grandparent care, we compared the material
hardship, mental health, and physical well‐being of custodial grandmothers (n= 90) and …

Grandparents raising grandchildren in Australia: Exploring psychological health and grandparents' experience of providing kinship care

EG Dunne, LJ Kettler - International Journal of Social Welfare, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores relationships between the psychological health of grandparents raising
grandchildren and grandchildren's social, emotional and behavioural issues. Fifty‐two …

Grandparents raising grandchildren: Investigating factors associated with distress among custodial grandparent

R Doley, R Bell, B Watt, H Simpson - Journal of Family Studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship between the psychological
health of grandparents raising grandchildren, and those grandchildren's social, emotional …