Child Welfare - Science topic

One factor is the dominant discourse regulation interpreted as exclusively child-focused, (solely) working with the child and directing resources towards the child.

Pregnancy in advanced maternal age (typically defined as 35 years or older) can have various psychosocial outcomes, influenced by both biological and social factors. Globally, women with advanced maternal age may experience:

Globally, the psychosocial outcomes of advanced maternal age pregnancies are shaped by a combination of individual, cultural, and societal factors. Addressing these challenges requires comprehensive healthcare support, mental health services, and societal awareness to ensure the well-being of these women and their families.

Hi. UGC offers, post graduate fellowships for women. You can read about the application procedure here- https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/7347918_pdfw.pdf

Also, you could try checking out- https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/ if your goal is to try and get a fellowship in the US.

The best way is search via the jobs posted on LinkedIn as they are updated regularly and post doctoral fellowships are posted as jobs there. All the best!

Mam, I kept aside the feminist perspective to give an insight on Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway case. My opinion was not on feminism at all. I pointed out endlessly prevailing cultural system which includes some norms of child rearing which contravened by Indian culture of rearing child by Indian mother which was indisgestible to the native norms, led to the unacceptable cruel action without facilitating the space to the foreign cultural of rearing to prove the point of efficacy in rearing a infant or a child. This was a subtle example where multicultural society as an imagination seems achieved and delightful but in reality slow and full of conflict due to unconscious comparison. The part of patriachy based system or feminist road block to multicultural society comes next because the native can differentiate but foreigner first get exposed to the forever existed system.

Hi Robert, I think if I was approaching this task I would use ecomaps and systems theory to consider the role of wider family, charitable organisations and the community in supporting children and families who are struggling. There may also be some useful information within the literature for family group conferences which involves working with families and other significant friends to support children to remain safely at home. This would involve prep work with the involved people and a meeting to agree a plan moving forward. Then there would be an assigned person to take the lead with this plan who would be able to contact agencies if concerns were raised. Some local authorities in the UK have started to consider the role of those outside of the family group to support but have also had to carefully consider confidentiality for the involved families.

Childhood trauma questionnaire : a retrospective self-report : manual

Author:David P Bernstein; Laura Fink Publisher:Orlando : Psychological Corporation, 1998.

Ask this from your library

For example Social workers to help solve the vulnerability problems of families

Hi Anne

Here are some to start with:

Regards, Keith

Hello Eleni,

I saw this Adolescent Well-Being Scale:

Then saw these on ResearchGate:

Tsang, K. L. V., Wong, P. Y. H., & Lo, S. K. (2012). Assessing psychosocial well‐being of adolescents: A systematic review of measuring instruments. Child: care, health and development, 38(5), 629-646.

Grob, A., Lüthi, R., Kaiser, F. G., Flammer, A., Mackinnon, A., & Wearing, A. J. (1991). Berner fragebogen zum wohlbefinden jugendlicher (BFW). Diagnostica, 37(1), 66-75.

Very best wishes with this,

Mary

Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ)

or

Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire

Can be of help.

We are using JVQ in a multisite research project including UK, India and Nepal.

Thanks for the links. These all gave some insights. I really preciated that.

I suggest you read this article

Iudici, A., Maiocchi, A. (2014). Community Justice and juvenile offender: the management of an individual case with criminal slope with community involvement. MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Vol. 5 (20), pag. 2015-2027.

and Iudici, A., Maiocchi, A. (2014). Community Justice and juvenile offender: the management of an individual case with criminal slope with community involvement. MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Vol. 5 (20), pag. 2015-2027.

Antonio

Thank you we already have this article : )

 I will explain. 

Ms Pyali Chatterjee, please no offense.

This is a very dangerous topic to bring up in my opinion.  

Universal Ethical rules does not let gender discrimination, any discrimination of humans. 

I am very much sorry to hear about such a project after so many years the person you have mentioned  died, since most of his theories on that book has proven otherwise.

Gender preferation of parents can not be accepted as a reason for selective abortion of certain gendered babies, whether male or female.  

Gender selection is  not acceptable for anybody. 

I don' t care about any cultural explanations.  

This is unethical and unacceptable.

There are countries on the world that could put somebody in jail just for mentioning this.  This is very bad. It is unacceptable as racism. 

Even such a question should not be asked to people. 

In my opinion, and I believe many would support me, one should not choose to be a parent if she/he discriminates a child because of gender.  If anyone does that, they need professional help in their lives. 

It would be a very big mistake if any ethical council favors such a research project, or even if it is a question in a questionnaire type of research.

 And if a doctor does gender based induced abortion, this is not ethical and  it is a crime. 

Please try to forget about this topic as soon as possible.  

Not sure if you are looking at an international perspective but in the UK it's best practice for motivational interviewing by trained health advisors to be offered to those reporting risky sexual health behaviours, and often located within sexual health clinics, so people receive sexual health checks and treatment at the same time. If this area is of interest/relevance I'd recommend looking at BASHH.org and https://www.fsrh.org/home/ to get an idea of UK guidelines and the evidence base these were developed from. 

HI Nathalie,

You may have to be less specific in your questions and look at effectiveness of play therapy in general and then after trauma producing environmental event, if there is anything on that.

Sherry

Kevin, here are two sources but they will lead you to many other sources:

If you have other questions or would like other resources, I will dig into my own library.

MHC

Ayodeji,

I am not sure if this will really be much of an assist, but this is probably the best you will be able to do when dealing with anything child related as it is very challenging to procure hash sets for anything child related unless you are law enforcement or LE sponsored to perform forensics etc.  You may want to consider speaking with someone at your local ICAC or NCMEC.

You can use the NSRL datasets found at the included link for non-child related hash sets for research projects.

You can use Autopsy to perform some of that research.

Good Luck.

I like the idea of testing the meconium from babies whose mother's had known histories of alcohol and drug use. It seems that ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is the best marker for this. I find that meconium is a great source for drug testing, but alcohol metabolizes so fast, so the common way this is found is by an random alcohol test in the Emergency Dept or maternal admission. Here is a title about this:  "Meconium Indicators of Maternal Alcohol Abuse during Pregnancy and Association with Patient Characteristics".

Hello Akhtar

This is a PhD thesis that might have some interest for you:

Wilkins, D. (2015). The use of theory and research knowledge in child protection social work practice: A study of disorganised attachment and child protection assessment (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kent,).

I don't know if these papers will be of help:

Stevens, I., & Cox, P. (2008). Complexity theory: Developing new understandings of child protection in field settings and in residential child care. British Journal of Social Work, 38(7), 1320-1336.

A draft version can be downloaded free from:

Young, S., McKenzie, M., Omre, C., Schjelderup, L., & Walker, S. (2014). Practicing from Theory: Thinking and Knowing to “Do” Child Protection Work. Social Sciences, 3(4), 893-915.

Alanen, L. (2004, November). Theorizing children’s welfare. In WELLCI Network Workshop (Vol. 1, pp. 12-13).

Washington, K. T. (2008). Attachment and alternatives: theory in child welfare research. Advances in Social work, 9(1), 8-16.

Very best wishes,

Mary

Thank you Elisabeth Ponce Garcia for this scale. I will have à look and Come back here for questions because, for now, I don't see how à scale lire this could predict turnover. But probably I'll be informed by reading !

And thank you Paula Mcfadden for your suggestions but turnover is caused mostly by direction's decisions Linked to economical reasons. But I will have à look on your papers, maybe it will help me to think this research otherwise !

Among the physical determinants do not forget the sound environment of children in the school, at home and in the community, where the child lives

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66660-3

doi: 10.1093/aje/kwj001

doi:10.1136/oem.59.6.380

doi: 10.1177/0013916503256260

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2015.08.003

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2011.03.017

doi:10.1136/oem.2006.026831

Temesgen,

Here's a couple references from our lab.

Dozier, M., & Lindhiem, O. (2006).  This is my baby: Differences among foster parents’ commitment to their young children.  Child Maltreatment, 11, 338-345.

Lindhiem, O., & Dozier, M. (2007).  Caregiver commitment to foster children:  The role of child behavior.  Child Abuse and Neglect, 31, 361-374.

Bernard, K., & Dozier, M (2011). This is My Baby: Foster parents’ feelings of commitment and displays of delight. Infant Mental Health Journal. 32, 251-262.

 My best, Mary

Depending on your specific interests, I would also recomment a time diary tool. Would that be interesting?

Hello Elaine. Here is some articles, maybe even you know it already:

Walters, J., & Davis, P. H. (2011). Human trafficking, sex tourism, and child exploitation on the southern border. Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, 2(1), 6.

Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., & Mitchell, K. J. (2012). Trends in law enforcement responses to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation crimes: The Third National Juvenile Online Victimization Study (NJOV-3). Durham, NH: Crimes against Children Research Center.

Wortley, R., Smallbone, S., Powell, M., & Cassematis, P. (2014). Understanding and Managing the Occupational Health Impacts on Investigators of Internet Child Exploitation.

I hope be useful in some way in your work! 

Bests, David

Recalling my childhood and experiences of extreme violence at the hands of my stepmother - the lack of help by those supposedly there to help was keenly felt as an abandonment. Below are my thoughts from my childhood experiences.

If you aren't there to help, why bother talking about it - it is just voyeuristic and tokenism. Or worst case - it could be considered by a child that the inquirer is seeking information for the professional's self-promotion.

What can you do to help - say it up front and act on it, or join the ranks of those colluding in the abuse.

Empathy and listening, followed by no action reinforces an impression of betrayal, voyeurism, collusion etc and will just weaken any trust for a child.

If you cannot do anything immediately, but need the child's testimony to act, then tell the child that, be truthful. Possibly discuss ways a child can self-protect if possible.

Sorry to sound so bleak, and maybe as a kid I was plain suspicious of so called helpers who were all talk and no action, even colluding with the perpetrator to further diminish my sense of safety and self-worth.

Not sure if this helps but children's voices need to be considered even in esoteric discussions ...

Dear Ayesha,

This thesis contains much information and many references that will surely be helpful to you. Good luck, Rachel.

Aakanksha

You might find a recent NBER paper by Handbury and colleagues of interest WHAT DRIVES NUTRITIONAL DISPARITIES? RETAIL ACCESS AND FOOD

PURCHASES ACROSS THE SOCIOECONOMIC SPECTRUM http://www.nber.org/papers/w21126.  They conclude that differences in retail access (food deserts) account for very little (<10%) of the differences in purchases of nutritious foods across socio-economic groups. They also find that the nutritional quality of purchases made by households with low levels of income and education respond very little when new stores enter an area or when existing stores change their product offerings.

Hello Nichola,

For me, working with children assumes a developmentally appropriate approach.

Working with abused children forces the therapist to consider the state of the child's emotional development specifically.

Abuse in childhood interrupts emotional development. The therapeutic approach should focus on both processing the trauma and re-engaging emotional growth.

The emotional developmental agenda (Erikson) for late childhood includes developing and internalizing a sense of competence.

Creativity can be internalized as competence when it becomes a method of processing emotional content (symbolism). For example:

I prefer creative approaches with children who have difficulty identifying feelings, but this approach also encourages verbalization.

I have also notice a high percentage of abused children that maintain a creative outlet (drawing poetry...)

It is also effective in a group format with abused adolescents, when encouraging identity development.

Just a thought

Catherine, I looked at some of the implementation and outcome research for Signs of Safety and other strengths-based child welfare approaches in my doctoral research which you should be able to access on this link..https://elk.library.ubc.ca/handle/2429/46176

I don't think the Child Welfare Worker Stress Inventory is a commercially published test. The basic source is an article that appeared in the Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture earlier this year (Volume 5, Issue 1). I'd start there. If it doesn't contain enough information, write directly to the authors.

Self-differentiation is going to be the more difficult variable to measure. I wouldn't put all my trust in a self-report inventory for this one. Of course you'll want to include some kind of self-report (because they're easy and have known reliability, etc.), but after all, a poorly differentiated personality won't be very good at telling you so! Something like Jane Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test would be good, but that means a major learning curve as you master the instrument.

I am very impressed with your initiative. You'll need to learn/understand reasons for not attending public schools. What can this system do that the govt. policies can't seem to achieve. You might want to explore the incentive mechanisms set up in other states in India - that seem to draw more children - which is missing in North-west. If this is the kind of information you were looking for - send me a line and I can send more details.

It would be helpful to check the work done by Pratham (first)- http://www.pratham.org/

"Pratham is the largest non governmental organisation working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India."