Congregate Care, Residential Treatment and Group Home State Legislative Enactments 2014-2019 – Just over 400,000 American children live in foster care, and some 55,000 reside in group homes, residential treatment facilities, psychiatric institutions, and emergency shelters. This type of placement—called “congregate care”—may be beneficial for children who require short-term supervision and […]
Child abuse and neglect in institutional settings, cumulative lifetime traumatization, and psychopathological long-term correlates in adult survivors – Child maltreatment (CM) in foster care settings (i.e., institutional abuse, IA) is known to have negative effects on adult survivors’ mental health. This study examines and compares the extent of CM (physical, emotional, and […]
Away From Home: Youth Experiences of Institutional Placement in Foster Care – Since the creation of the modern child welfare system, child welfare has sent a percentage of youth in foster care to live in institutional placements, not with relatives or foster families. Of the hundreds of thousands of young people […]
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