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Alannah McGurgan; Charlotte Emma Wilson – Child Care in Practice, 2025
There are a variety of different psychological interventions used to treat recurrent abdominal pain in childhood. Active components in these interventions are unclear. Parents play an important role when it comes to their children's response to pain and management of pain, and are regularly involved in interventions. Four electronic databases were…
Descriptors: Pain, Children, Adolescents, Intervention
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Sofiya Alhassan; Luke Sudarsky; Gaurav Dangol; Wanjiang Zhou; Althea Turley; Ann-Marie Sylvia; Holly Laws – Child Care in Practice, 2025
Background: Toddlers spend a significant portion of their time within the childcare setting being sedentary. Therefore, interventions are needed to improve toddlers' physical activity (PA) within this setting. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a 10-week activity program on toddlers' time…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Physical Activity Level, Program Effectiveness, Child Care Centers
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Pete King; Shelly Newstead – Child Care in Practice, 2025
The International Playwork Census (IPC) was undertaken to compare demographic data from both playworkers and non-playworkers who use a playwork approach in their work. Data were collected from 273 responses in nineteen different countries reflecting the growth of playwork from its United Kingdom beginnings. Results showed the combined playwork…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Personal Autonomy
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Ailish Harrison – Child Care in Practice, 2025
Background: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) describes an eating disturbance associated with weight loss or faltering growth in children, significant nutritional deficiency, reliance on oral supplements, reliance on enteral feeding and/or a clear interference with psychosocial functioning, in the absence of body image concerns.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Clinical Diagnosis, Medical Services, Children
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Edna Orr; Rinat Caspi – Child Care in Practice, 2025
The association between parents' work-family conflicts and children's academic outcomes is an understudied topic. The present research investigates the role of quadratic measures--parental working hours' scale, parental age, parental interaction quality, and learning materials at home--in children's cognitive outcomes. It employs a community…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Children, Parents, Work Life Expectancy
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Clare Maria Nee; Declan Fahie – Child Care in Practice, 2025
This paper examines the challenges service providers encounter when supporting children in Direct Provision in Ireland. It focuses particularly on the organisations--both voluntary and statutory--that are charged with providing support for this vulnerable cohort. Specifically, the paper considers the roadblocks these organisations face helping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Barriers, Advocacy
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Bodil S. Olsvik; Elsa Solstad – Child Care in Practice, 2025
This article explores how leadership in child welfare is practised in a context with co-existing institutional logic. The article is based on a qualitative design using document analyses and semi-structured interviews. The document analysis is based on seven documents and interviews with 20 child welfare managers (CWM). The data indicate that CWMs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Child Welfare, Administrator Role
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Jennifer Baumgartner; Carrie Ota; Cynthia DiCarlo; Rebecca Bauer; Russell Carson – Child Care in Practice, 2025
While the issue of teacher stress is widely recognized, little is currently known about childcare teachers' stress, its impact on teaching, and the relationship with professional activities. This study utilizes ecological momentary assessment (EMA) techniques with 50 early care teachers to examine the relationship between childcare teachers'…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Burnout
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Sue Bond – Child Care in Practice, 2025
Possible selves is a theory of self-concept and behaviour motivation. Methods of exploring possible selves have focused on interviews and questionnaires. This article introduces the Possible Me Tree model and explains how the model was adapted and used for research. The Possible Me Tree model was implemented with young people between 17 and 18…
Descriptors: Models, Activities, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Data Collection
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Jaime Moreno-Chaparro; Eliana I. Parra Esquivel; Angy Lucia Santos Quintero; Laura Paez; Sandra Martinez Quinto; Bayron Esteven Rojas Barrios; Juan Felipe Samudio; Karol Madeline Romero Villareal – Child Care in Practice, 2025
In recent years, and especially due to COVID-19, a large number of telehealth interventions have been implemented. The large amount of information requires a differential analysis with an emphasis on rurality and the practice of parents/caregivers in the care and attention of children. The objectives of this study were to synthesize the available…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Rural Areas, Parents, Children
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Sheila Simons – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Domestic abuse continues to be a growing concern across the globe where the overwhelming majority of victims are women. Women also tend to experience more severe forms of violence, which includes murder. There is growing recognition that children who live in households where domestic abuse exists are directly harmed and often show psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Child Abuse, Crime
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Helen Dunn – Child Care in Practice, 2024
This paper draws upon evidence captured from a parent consultation exercise conducted by Helen Dunn (author) and Paula Keenan on behalf of Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI) for the Department of Health as part of the Review of Children's Social Care led by Professor Ray Jones during 2022-23. CiNI is the regional umbrella organisation for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Consultation Programs, Parent Attitudes, Social Work
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Dearbhaile Slane; Alison Montgomery – Child Care in Practice, 2024
The involvement of people with lived experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of services has grown significantly in recent years. In parallel, the evidence base for best practice in peer research, as this approach is described, is also expanding. Sharing two practice examples, the authors reflect on key learning emerging from their…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Researchers, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Jason Caldwell; Elaine Pollock – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Care planning for Looked After Children (LAC) is accepted as being critical in ensuring good outcomes for LAC, however, the available evidence base highlights that despite the introduction of key legislation across the UK, that care planning for LAC remains inconsistent. There is limited Northern Ireland (NI) specific research available that…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Social Work, Professional Training, Foreign Countries
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Melanie Stone – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Implementation is the carrying out of planned, intentional activities that aim to turn evidence and ideas into policies and practices that work for people in the real world--the "how" as well as the "what" (Centre for Effective Services, 2022). Whilst partnership, relationship and trust often feature in implementation, until…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Programs, Trust (Psychology), Program Implementation
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