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Developmental Child Welfare is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Child Welfare and Adoption, Child Abuse and Trauma, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Developmental Child Welfare, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Child Welfare and Adoption Child Abuse and Trauma Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Family and Disability Support Research Homelessness and Social Issues |
| ISSN | 2516-1032 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.1 |
| h-index | 17 |
| i10-index | 35 |
| Total citations | 1,180 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com |
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The risk of child maltreatment is heightened during the pandemic due to multiple COVID-19 related stressors, such as physical and mental health concerns, economic stress, challenges in homeschooling, marital conflicts and intimate personal violence, and intensified child–parent relationships. Both parental internal (e.g., parenting styles) and external resources (e.g., social support), and parental perceptions toward stressors…
CONTEXT: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis suggests that children and youth are more likely to be subjected to maltreatment and exposure to family violence, while experiencing limited access to the usual services that support vulnerable families and provide targeted services to meet their needs. The current global pandemic itself can also be experienced as a…
This study presents the feasibility and pilot evaluation of the Reflective Fostering Programme (RFP), a recently developed, group-based program to support foster carers, based on the concept of “reflective parenting.” This innovative development follows calls by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and other organizations to help improve outcomes for children in care…
Foster children often had negative experiences in the past, which can contribute to attachment problems. In their meta-analysis, van den Dries et al. found that foster children were more often disorganized attached when compared to the general population. It is to be expected that the quality of attachment between the foster children and their foster…
When children are removed from their birth parents and placed in foster care, child welfare policy and practice prioritizes family reunification in permanency planning. Of the many services offered to families in support of reunification, parent-child visitation is one of the most important. The purposes of visitation are to maintain and support the parent-child relationship,…
