The mental health, emotional literacy, cognitive ability, literacy attainment and ‘resilience’ of ‘looked after children’: A multidimensional, multiple‐rater population based study

Abstract

In general terms, this study supports the findings of previous research studies. However, evidence of positive exceptions across and within all domains cautions against overgeneralization of findings. The findings also implicate parental contact and mainstream education in the promotion of resilience.

Leaving foster or residential care: a participatory study of care leavers' experiences of health and social care transitions

“…Their journey from childhood to adulthood is characterized not only by the social expectations of all young people as they mature but also by services changing as they turn 18 (McDonagh & Viner ; Stein ). Health outcomes for this group on average are poor in comparison with the wider population (Botchway et al ; Rees ; Stein & Dumaret ). Some of those transferring out of paediatric into adult healthcare services will transfer across more than one specialty.…”

Correlations Between Cognitive and Social Functioning of Schoolchildren: Study of Population Data Using methods of intellectual Analysis of heterogeneous Data

“…Решение этой задачи требует комплексного изучения развития мозга с учетом взаимовлияния когнитивного потенциала, эмоционально-личностных характеристик, социального окружения и социального результата [1]. Комплексная оценка состояния психики детского населения необходима для определения групп риска когнитивно и академически неуспешных детей, профилактики негативных динамических изменений в их социализации с целью позитивных изменений их социальной жизнедеятельности [2][3][4].…”

Results of the First Steps study: a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of the Group Family Nurse Partnership (gFNP) programme compared with usual care in improving outcomes for high-risk mothers and their children and preventing abuse

“…In recent years there has been growing recognition that, compared with children not looked after but with similar socioeconomic backgrounds, LACs are at increased risk of a range of adverse outcomes in adulthood, including educational underachievement; 132 139 In their follow-up analysis of the 1970 British cohort study and controlling for other causes of disadvantage, Viner and Taylor 140 found that a history of being in care as a child could be linked with lower social status as an adult and more problems such as mental and physical health problems and homelessness. There were also sex-specific associations; women who had experienced care were more likely in their teens to have been excluded from school, whereas men with a care history were more likely to be unemployed.…”

“…Rees 132 reported the findings of a multidimensional, multiple-rater, population-based study of all LACs aged 7-15 years accommodated by one local authority (n = 193). The study aimed to overcome some of the limitations associated with earlier studies, such as small sample sizes and high attrition; restricted access to LACs; a focus on small, purposive samples; and reliance on case file audits.…”