Foster Home Care - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Knowing kids dying of HIV: a traumatic event for AIDS orphans.

29 Jun 2009 Data from 755 AIDS orphans living in a rural area of China with high rates of HIV infection were used to examine the association between a child's trauma symptoms and knowing a peer with HIV infection or one who had died of HIV. Trauma symptoms were ... Read more...

Contact and truth: the unfolding predicament in adoption and fostering.

29 Jun 2009 It is now time to examine the crystallizing results of the social experiment of contact, direct and indirect, and to scrutinize the arguments supporting the predominant conviction that the benefits of regular contact are certain. Many adopted and ... Read more...

The experiences of Sudanese unaccompanied minors in foster care.

30 May 2009 Sudanese unaccompanied minors were separated from their parents in childhood and lived apart from their families in refugee camps for close to a decade before being resettled in the United States. This phenomenological study examines the refugees' ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Foster Home Care - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Knowing kids dying of HIV: a traumatic event for AIDS orphans. 29 Jun 2009
• Contact and truth: the unfolding predicament in adoption and fostering. 29 Jun 2009
• The experiences of Sudanese unaccompanied minors in foster care. 30 May 2009
• Health risk behavior of youth in foster care. 29 Apr 2009
• Almost invisible: rural youth in foster care. 29 Apr 2009
• Health risks for older US adolescents in foster care: the significance of important others' health behaviours on youths' health and health behaviours. 29 Apr 2009
• Health problems and health behaviors of Korean preschoolers living with parents and under guardianship. 29 Apr 2009
• An exploratory study of the association between reactive attachment disorder and attachment narratives in early school-age children. 30 Mar 2009
• [The relationship between brothers and sisters in family placement situations] 30 Mar 2009
• Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment. 19 Jan 2009
• Effects of early maltreatment on development: a descriptive study using the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-II. 30 Dec 2008
• Disabled children living away from home in foster care and residential settings. 29 Nov 2008
• Preadoptive child sexual abuse as a predictor of moves in care, adoption disruptions, and inconsistent adoptive parent commitment. 23 Nov 2008
• A national study of male involvement among families in contact with the child welfare system. 2 Nov 2008
• Profile of young people attending alcohol and other drug treatment services in Aotearoa, New Zealand: clinical file search. 30 Oct 2008
• (Ad)ministering love: providing family foster care to infants with prenatal substance exposure. 30 Aug 2008
• The mental health of children in out-of-home care. 29 Jun 2008
• Salivary cortisol in foster children: a pilot study. 23 Jun 2008
• Effects of enhanced foster care on the long-term physical and mental health of foster care alumni. 30 May 2008
• Fostering foster care outcomes: quality of intervention matters in overcoming early adversity. 30 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Foster Home Care'

Definition: Families who care for neglected children or patients unable to care for themselves.

Descriptor UI: D005581

Alternative terms: Foster Home Care; Care, Foster Home; Fostering; Kinship Care; Care, Kinship; Adult Foster Care; Care, Adult Foster; Foster Care, Adult;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.352; I01.880.787.416; N02.421.143.452; N02.421.585.352;