Extensive research in recent decades has focused on analyzing the mechanisms by which household resources are allocated among family members. For development programs to be successful, they need to take into account the rules of household allocation and how policy and other inte…
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This dissertation examines the politics of child welfare in the context of nation-state building in the early Turkish republic (1920-1940). It elaborates struggles by republican elites to define the role of the state and private institutions in providing care to poor or orphaned…
Despite the valuable contribution of kin caregivers for orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, little is known about their strategies for coping with the stressors that arise in the caregiving process. The purpose of this study was to examine and explore the stressors expe…
In the second half of the nineteenth century, often described as the "heyday of American orphanages," Jewish orphanages sprang up in major cities throughout the United States. Among them were three representative institutions: the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York (established in…
Child Welfare agencies are charged with the task of investigating child maltreatment allegations, moving children from harmful environments and transitioning them to safe, stable and nurturing environments, in addition to providing services to families and children across the na…
The retention and persistence of students who come from the foster care system and are enrolled in four-year college institutions was the focus of this qualitative study. Former foster care youth resided in out-of-home care with state approved guardians who received funding and …
The purpose of this grant proposal project was to seek funding for a program intended to recruit a greater number of resource families who identify as Latinx and African American. A review of the literature provided information about the causes and impacts of placement instabili…
Theodore Millon’s theory of personality and the assessment based on Millon’s theory, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, has a longstanding history of utility for assessing personality in clinical and forensic settings. For forensic psychologists, the MCMI has proved usefu…
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) contributes to depression in various populations and this link has been established using robust longitudinal studies. However, limited studies have examined this link using person-centered approaches, such as with cluster analysis, and longitudinall…
This thesis focuses on the representation of children and education through both the melodramatic themes of the texts and the melodramatic vision of the illustrations.
The neural networks responsible for coordinating top-down self-regulatory processes, or executive functions, undergo intense fine-tuning and reorganization in early childhood. For children faced with prolonged stress (e.g., chaotic household environment, uncertainty) or adversit…
This thesis explores the history of the Indigenous child welfare system in Manitoba and the effects of the Millennium Scoop on children in care. My research question is: what was the experience of children in care in Manitoba from 1990 to 2015? A related question is: how do surv…
Youth with trauma histories and child welfare involvement are disproportionately transferred to criminal court and receive harsher sanctions than justice-involved youth without such histories. Little is known about factors that contribute to these sentencing disparities. While 4…
In 2018, 4.3 million abuse referrals were made to Child Protective Services involving 7.8 million children throughout the US; 56% of these reports were screened in for additional investigation (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). Maltreatment is particularly damag…
Thirty years since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities are increasingly becoming parents. At the same time, parents with disabilities face pervasive discrimination within the child welfare system. Despite a sizable body of research …