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Research Watch, a Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare initiative, tracks the major child welfare journals on a monthly basis. The Research Watch collaborative working group selects salient studies and summarizes them in short monthly e-newsletters distributed at no cost to subscribers. Subscribe here.

Title Reviewed by Date Publishedsort icon
Nurse home visitation program reduces reported maltreatment of children Sydney Duder 08/26/2010
Mothers of children in out-of-home care: Drug treatment services can increase reunification rates Sydney Duder 08/19/2010
Study finds high rates of posttraumatic stress symptoms in a US national sample of children referred to child welfare Melissa Van Wert 08/05/2010
The overrepresentation of poor children in child welfare is a public health issue not a reporting problem Nico Trocmé 07/22/2010
Neighbourhood disadvantage and proximity to disadvantaged neighbourhoods increase risk of out-of-home placements Jonathan Schmidt 06/03/2010
Limited evidence of school-based education programs efficacy for the prevention of child sexual abuse Jess Barnes 05/27/2010
Child welfare and mental health interorganizational relationships impact service use and outcomes Allison Eisner 05/06/2010
Leaving an abusive partner reduces the odds of recurrent intimate partner violence Tara Black 04/22/2010
Well-Being of Children in Kinship Care Placements
Allison Eisner
Aron Shlonsky
 04/08/2010
Evidence-based practice: Fidelity monitoring an important factor Sydney Duder 03/25/2010
Adolescent girls’ pregnancy rates lower for Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care versus Group Care Nicole Petrowski 03/04/2010
Cost-effective services for youth aging out of foster care Sydney Duder 02/18/2010
Dating violence common among CPS-involved youth and a suggestive trauma intervention pathway Jonathan D. Schmidt 01/28/2010
Primary care physicians often fail to report injuries that are likely due to child abuse
Kim Coleman
Michelle Ward
 01/14/2010
Home Visiting Programs more effective with an added cognitive component
Elizabeth Fast
Jonathan D. Schmidt
 12/03/2009
Survivalist self-reliance as both adaptation and danger for youth aging out of care Jonathan D. Schmidt 11/16/2009
Educational videos increase awareness of effects of shaking babies Nico Trocmé 10/22/2009
Case vignette study finds that clinicians are not sensitive to the use of suggestive interviewing technique in child sexual abuse investigations Delphine Collin-Vézina 10/08/2009
Study finds group homes increase risk of delinquency Elizabeth Fast 09/03/2009
Training program improved both foster parent skills and child behavior Sydney Duder 08/20/2009