The hodgepodge reality: a qualitative systematic review of the challenges and barriers in child and adolescent mental health care systems

A Carbonell, S Georgieva, JJ Navarro-Perez… - Adolescent Research …, 2024 - Springer
The literature to date has documented the presence of challenges and barriers in mental
health systems and services for children and adolescents worldwide. However, studies …

Differences in the diagnosis and treatment decisions for children in care compared to their peers: An experimental study on post‐traumatic stress disorder

R McGuire, SL Halligan… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Despite evidence of high rates of diagnosable mental health difficulties in
children in care, there remains ongoing debate around the appropriateness of traditional …

The development of young peoples' internalising and externalising difficulties over the first three-years in the public care system

RM Hiller, A Fraser, M Denne, A Bauer… - Child …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Although we know there are high rates of mental health difficulties amongst young people in
out-of-home care (ie social welfare-involved children), there is limited evidence on the …

Reconceptualising coproduction as activism together

C McMellon, P McCusker, A Roesch‐Marsh… - Children & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted life across the world in multiple ways and those already
minoritised and disenfranchised, like care‐experienced young people, bore the brunt of …

'They shouldn't have to ask': Exploring the need for specialist mental health services for care-experienced and adopted children and their families

S Coulter, S Mooney, M MacDonald… - Adoption & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reports on a study conducted in two counties in the Republic of Ireland designed
to elicit the views of fostering and adoption stakeholder groups on the mental health needs …

A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lifelong Links Intervention for Reducing Homelessness amongst Care Leavers

M Sanders, V Hirneis, V Picker - The British Journal of Social …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Despite the fact that care leavers are at significantly higher risk of homelessness than their
peers who have not experienced care, there is a paucity of information on evidence-based …

The feelings and co** strategies of children placed in Flemish family foster care

F Van Holen, L Van Hove, A Clé… - Adoption & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article describes how 27 foster children aged 12 to 18 years old, placed in Flemish long-
term family foster care, experience life in their foster family and how they cope with their …

A qualitative study of the views and experiences of those working in residential children's homes

L Abraham, S Elgie, V Soares… - Scottish Journal of …, 2022 - pureportal.strath.ac.uk
Young people in residential children's homes have typically experienced significant child
maltreatment and will have likely experienced multiple placement moves; both are …

Access to best‐evidenced mental health support for care‐experienced young people: Learnings from the implementation of cognitive therapy for PTSD

R McGuire, R Meiser‐Stedman, P Smith… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Rates of PTSD are up to 12 times higher in care‐experienced young people
(CEYP) compared to their peers. Trauma‐focused CBTs (tf‐CBT) are the best‐evidenced …

The influence of the residential environment on the stress assessment in teenagers

AM Breaz - Revista Universitară de Sociologie, 2020 - ceeol.com
The main purpose of the article was to highlight the influence of the residential environment
in assessing stress in adolescents. It was assumed that there were differences between …