Journal of Children's Services: Volume 9 Issue 3

Multi-type childhood maltreatment: associations with health risk behaviours and mental health problems in adolescence

Mariella Mangion, Sandra C. Buttigieg

– The purpose of this paper is to determine whether multi-type child maltreatment is associated with health-risk behaviours and mental ill-health in adolescence.

MEDIA PROTECT – a programme targeting parents to prevent children's problematic use of screen media

Paula Bleckmann, Florian Rehbein, Michael Seidel, Thomas Mößle

The purpose of this paper is to describe theoretical background, concepts and materials for MEDIA PROTECT, a new elementary-school parent counselling programme to reduce…

Barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream services: evidence and research

Vincent La Placa, Judy Corlyon

– The purpose of this paper is to review the current evidence base on barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream preventive services.

Mentoring up-cycled: creating a community-based intervention for sexually abused adolescents

Javonda Williams, Debra Nelson-Gardell

The purpose of this paper is to detail a project that created a community-based mentoring intervention for sexually abused children and adolescents. The project features the use…

Good idea, bad prerequisite, zero result – the meaning of context in implementing aftercare for young people in secure unit care

Maria Andersson Vogel, Marie Sallnäs, Tommy Lundström

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to report results from a quasi-experimental study of outcomes of a leaving care project for youth placed in secure unit care and…

Who benefits?

Nick Axford, Michael Little