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This paper reviews the research on youth empowerment in seven child welfare programmatic areas. A lack of studies specifically focused on the empowerment of youth in foster care was found. Conceptual perspectives and existing data, however, suggest that the empowerment of youth in and transitioning out of care is essential and should be overtly facilitated through policy and program development.
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Maus-Tratos Infantis/reabilitação , Serviços de Saúde Comunitária , Cuidados no Lar de Adoção , Poder Psicológico , Apoio Social , Adolescente , Criança , Educação , Humanos , Mentores , Habitação Popular , Estados Unidos , Orientação VocacionalRESUMO
This paper, the second in a series of two guideline papers emerging from the 2007 Best Practices for Mental Health in Child Welfare Consensus Conference, provides an overview of the key issues related to parent support and youth empowerment in child welfare and presents consensus guidelines in these important areas. The paper also discusses some of the implications these guidelines have for the child welfare field.
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Maus-Tratos Infantis/reabilitação , Cuidados no Lar de Adoção , Pais , Autoeficácia , Apoio Social , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Humanos , Pais/psicologia , Defesa do Paciente , Poder Psicológico , Serviço Social/educação , Serviço Social/métodos , Estados UnidosAssuntos
Medicina Baseada em Evidências , Serviços de Saúde Mental/organização & administração , Psicoterapia , Transtornos de Estresse Traumático/reabilitação , Terrorismo/psicologia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Implementação de Plano de Saúde , Humanos , Capacitação em Serviço , Masculino , Cidade de Nova Iorque , Psicoterapia/educação , Psicoterapia/métodos , Transtornos de Estresse Traumático/diagnósticoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore the interactional effects of parental marital disruption and physical abuse on risk for adolescent psychopathology in a nonclinical sample with a randomly selected control group. METHOD: The sample was drawn from 99 community-based adolescents indicated as physically abused by Child Protective Services and 99 randomly selected controls. Nonabused adolescents whose parents were married, abused adolescents whose parents were married, nonabused adolescents with a parental marital disruption, and abused adolescents with a parental marital disruption were compared. Outcome was psychopathology as measured by psychiatric diagnosis based on a best-estimate procedure subsequent to semistructured diagnostic interviewing. RESULTS: Interactional effects of marital disruption and abuse were found for risk for lifetime Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), with parental marital disruption and having been physically abused combining to increase the risk 15 times for diagnosis of lifetime ADHD. Parental marital status alone was not a significant risk factor for adolescent psychopathology, but physical abuse was a significant risk factor for several diagnostic categories. CONCLUSIONS: Future divorce research should include abuse history as a possible confounding variable. Possible reasons for the findings are reviewed and clinical implications are discussed.
