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Tournier, Tess; Wolkorte, Ria; Hendriks, Alexander H. C.; Jahoda, Andrew; Embregts, Petri J. C. M. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Introduction: Families have a significant role in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviors. However, it is not clear how actively families are involved when people with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviors are living in out-of-home care. This scoping review explored the frequency and type of…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Intellectual Disability, Comorbidity, Behavior Problems
Fulcher, Leon C.; Garfat, Thom – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
Outcomes measurement has become a contemporary requirement for non-profit, government, and private sector child, youth, and family service providers throughout North America as well as in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Cost-effectiveness, care planning, service evaluations, and fiscal audits are now commonplace…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Youth, Children
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2008
A great change is coming over childhood in the world's richest countries. Today's rising generation is the first in which a majority are spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. At the same time, neuroscientific research is demonstrating that loving, stable, secure, and stimulating relationships with…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Social Change
Smyth, Ciara; Blaxland, Megan; Cass, Bettina – Journal of Youth Studies, 2011
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of "hidden" carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Caregivers, Identification (Psychology), Social Attitudes
Clark, Margaret M., Ed.; Tucker, Stanley, Ed. – Trentham Books Ltd, 2010
This book challenges taken for granted views of early childhood across the globe. It deepens and broadens our understanding of what it means to be a child today and of the challenges children face in different parts of the world. It will be essential reading for all who work with young children or are students of early years education and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Family Characteristics, Poverty, Rural Areas
Fulcher, Leon C.; Ainsworth, Frank – Child & Youth Services, 2006
Attention is drawn to important themes thought likely to influence the continuing development of group care services for children and young people in the decade ahead. These include a poorly educated workforce, autonomous training, multi-disciplinary approaches, centres of excellence, diversified programs, new trends and issues shaping the future,…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Residential Care, Group Homes