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Issues underlying behaviour problems in at-risk adopted children
- Authors:
- SMITH Susan Livingston, HOWARD Jeanne A., MONROE Alan D.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 22(7), July 2000, pp.539-562.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Discusses the literature, and then reports on an analysis of assessment data on adopted children. More than half of the sample of 292 adopted children exhibited externalisation behaviours characteristic of conduct disorders: lying and manipulation, defiance, verbal aggression, violation of family norms, peer problems, tantrums, physical aggression, and destruction of property. The literature view is that these children are acting out anti-socially in response to a number of internal negative feelings such as anger, powerlessness, low self-esteem, fear, and anxiety.
Paediatricians 'close to despair' over child protection laws
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 26.3.20, 2000, p.531.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The Children Act is failing to protect children from severe abuse and neglect, according to a study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. This article briefly discusses the findings and implications.
Waiting for court decisions: a kind of limbo
- Author:
- BECKETT Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 24(2), Summer 2000, pp.55-62.
- Publisher:
- Sage
One of the specific objectives of the Children Act 1989 was to reduce the duration of care proceedings, since it was recognised that a long period of uncertainty was likely to be harmful to children. But care proceedings have in fact been increasing steadily in length since the Act was implemented in 1991. The author presents the evidence for this, reviews the available literature on the possible reasons and suggests that further attention needs to be given to the effect on children of such delays, which could be considered a form of 'system abuse'
Factors associated with completion of the restraining order process in female victims of partner violence
- Authors:
- ZOELLNER Lori A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(10), October 2000, pp.1081-1099.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Thousands of women in the USA each year initiate the process of obtaining a restraining order against a violent partner. Although many women request an emergency restraining order, many fail to return to obtain a final 1-year order. This study examines factors associated with completion of this process. Sixty-five women who initiated the process of securing a restraining order against a male partner participated in the study. Women who indicated an attachment to the abusive partner were less likely to complete the process. Perceived threat to the women facilitated persistence with the process; however, when the threat involved her children, women were less likely to persist. Unfortunately factors influencing persistence in help seeking, especially attachment and threat, is a crucial step toward enhancing interventions to facilitate efforts toward violence-free lives.
Protecting the innocent
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.6.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks how far new court guidelines will go in resolving the thorny issue of domestic violence and parental access to children.
Ill-treatment of child in shared care
- Author:
- LATHAM Cecil
- Journal article citation:
- Justice of the Peace, 24.6.00, 2000, pp.499-500.
- Publisher:
- Butterworth
Reports on a court hearing which hinged on the interpretation of the Children Act 1989. The issue at the first stage of a hearing is whether the threshold conditions for making a care order are satisfied. At the second, welfare, stage of the hearing the court should only make the order if the making of it would be better for the child than the making no order at all.
Residential child care
- Author:
- BULLOCK Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2000, 2000, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Examines whether all children in residential care are at risk of social exclusion, or whether it is only specific groups who have had particularly adverse experiences.
The dangerousness of youth-at-risk: the possibilities of surveillance and intervention in uncertain times
- Author:
- KELLY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 23(4), 2000, pp.463-476.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Explore the dangerous possibilities provoked by the popular and promiscuous construction of the category of "youth-at-risk". In an age of large-scale and profound social changes, narratives of uncertainty and risk dominate popular, political and theoretical discourses about youth. Under these social conditions, the discourse of youth-at-risk is mobilised from a variety of intellectual and political positions in various attempts to regulate the behaviours and dispositions of youth. The article will argue that these discourses provoke dangerous possibilities for the increased surveillance of, and intervention into, young people's lives by regulatory authorities (schools, police, health services, and juvenile justice systems) and the forms of expertise recruited by these agencies.
Developing a taxonomy for children in need
- Author:
- SINCLAIR Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 4, Spring 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Discusses the aims of a joint project by the National Children's Bureau and Dartington, to develop a comprehensive system for describing the needs of children and then to use this framework to generate a taxonomy (or classification) for children in need.
Children: a multi-professional perspective
- Authors:
- WYSE Dominic, HAWTIN Angela
- Publisher:
- Arnold
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 186p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Introduction to key ideas in the study of childhood. Discusses cultural images of childhood; child development; assessment; the family; children at risk; and children's rights. Attempts to provide an interdisciplinary perspective for professionals in health, education and social services.