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Are care leavers significantly dissatisfied and depressed in adult life?
- Author:
- BUCHANAN Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 23(4), Winter 1999, pp.35-40.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), the author explores the links between children who have been 'in care', (as they were known pre-Children Act 1989) life satisfaction in adult life, psychological problems at 16 and depression at 33.
Measuring outcomes for children: early parenting experiences, conflict, maladjustment and depression in adulthood
- Authors:
- BUCHANAN Ann, TEN BRINKE JoAnn
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 20(3), 1998, pp.251-278.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Based on longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study, the current study explores the relationships between different types of family difficulties and conflict, parenting experiences, maladjustment at 16, and the risk of depression in adult life. The best indicator that family difficulties and conflict were impinging on a particular child, with potentially long term psychological impacts, was the Rutter 'A' Health and Behaviour score at age 16. This study concludes that such measures could be more readily used in social work to monitor intervention and assess outcomes.