Journal of Children's Services: Volume 16 Issue 2

Professional parental status disclosure in intensive family intervention work

Philip John Archard

This paper is concerned with what intensive family intervention professionals reveal to the parents with whom they work about whether they themselves are parents or not, as a form…

Comparing fidelity monitoring methods in an evidence-based parenting intervention

Ashwini Tiwari, Daniel Whitaker, Shannon Self-Brown

Two common methods in community settings of assessing program fidelity, a critical implementation component for program effectiveness, are video and audio recordings of sessions…

Families of children with disabilities helping inform early childhood education

Katie Swart, Reem Muharib, Kristi Godfrey-Hurrell, Mark M. D’Amico, Bob Algozzine, Vivian Correa, Kate Algozzine

This paper aims to survey and interview parents of young children with disabilities to document their perspectives on what professionals working with their children need to know…

A sociological study of patterns and determinants of child labour in India

Barsa Priyadarsinee Sahoo

The purpose of this paper is to understand the patterns and incidence of child labour in India and to examine the magnitude of child labour across different social groups. It…

Professionals’ views on children’s service user involvement

Johanna Kiili, Maritta Itäpuisto, Johanna Moilanen, Anu-Riina Svenlin, Kaisa Eveliina Malinen

Children are gradually attaining recognition as service users and their involvement in service development has been advanced in recent years. This study draws on empirical…

The reflective fostering programme: evaluating the intervention co-delivered by social work professionals and foster carers

Nick Midgley, Eva A. Sprecher, Antonella Cirasola, Sheila Redfern, Benita Pursch, Caroline Smith, Sue Douglas, Peter Martin

There is little evidence regarding how to best support the emotional well-being of children in foster care. This paper aims to present the evaluation of an adaptation of the…