Child Welfare

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'I don't need an eye for an eye': Women's responses to intimate partner violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 
  • A combined motivation and parent-child interaction therapy package reduces child welfare recidivism in a randomized dismantling field trial. 
  • A comparison of the wellbeing of orphans and abandoned children ages 6-12 in institutional and community-based care settings in 5 less wealthy nations. 
  • A motivational intervention can improve retention in PCIT for low-motivation child welfare clients. 
  • A tale of two methods: comparing regression and instrumental variables estimates of the effects of preschool child care type on the subsequent externalizing behavior of children in low-income families. 
  • Accidents will happen? Unintentional childhood injuries and the effects of child care regulations. 
  • Alcohol, drug, and mental health specialty treatment services and race/ethnicity: a national study of children and families involved with child welfare. 
  • Altered pigment epithelium-derived factor and vascular endothelial growth factor levels in lymphangioma pathogenesis and clinical recurrence. 
  • An Integrated Clinic-Community Partnership for Child Obesity Treatment: A Randomized Pilot Trial. 
  • Assessing the effects of trauma in children and adolescents in practice settings. 
  • Can expanding access to basic healthcare improve children's health status? Lessons from Indonesia's 'midwife in the village' programme. 
  • Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina. What is it? And why? 
  • Child Welfare Agency Ties to Providers and Schools and Substance Abuse Treatment Use by Adolescents 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Childhood obesity: Can electronic medical records customized with clinical practice guidelines improve screening and diagnosis? 
  • Childhood respiratory symptoms, hospital admissions, and long-term exposure to airborne particulate matter. 
  • Children in dark times: a year of silent emergency. 
  • Children who prosper in unfavorable environments: the relationship to social capital. 
  • Children's respiratory morbidity prevalence in relation to air pollution in four Chinese cities. 
  • Clinical epidemiology of urban violence: responding to children exposed to violence in ten communities. 
  • Comparison of mental health between former child soldiers and children never conscripted by armed groups in Nepal. 
  • Comparison of techniques to reduce residential lead dust on carpet and upholstery: the new jersey assessment of cleaning techniques trial. 
  • Complex trauma and mental health in children and adolescents placed in foster care: findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. 
  • Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. 
  • Critical windows of exposure for children's health: the reproductive system in animals and humans. 
  • Development of a questionnaire to assess knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in American Indian children. 
  • Development of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a community-based nurse-managed center. 
  • Distributing US health aid. 
  • Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts? 
  • Does group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection increase risk for behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms in children? 
  • Drug use and HIV/AIDS in Burma. 
  • Editorial: How Badly Do We Undercount Chronic Maltreatment, and How Much Should Clinicians Care? 
  • Effectively addressing the impact of child traumatic stress in child welfare. 
  • Effects of a Rural Family Drug Treatment Court Collaborative on Child Welfare Outcomes: Comparison Using Propensity Score Analysis. 
  • Errors in a paper on the Millennium Villages project. 
  • Ethics of postmortem sperm retrieval: ethics of sperm retrieval after death or persistent vegetative state. 
  • Evaluation of Web sites on management of pain in children. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines for pediatric clinical trials: focus on StaR Child Health. 
  • Examining Parental Medication Adherence as a Predictor of Child Medication Adherence in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders. 
  • Exposure and peritraumatic response as predictors of posttraumatic stress in children following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Factors Associated With Poor Child Motor Vehicle Restraint on the USA-Mexico Border. 
  • Factors affecting the psychosocial well-being of orphan and separated children in five low- and middle-income countries: Which is more important, quality of care or care setting? 
  • Gender Differences in the Link between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Heart Attack Risk in Adulthood 
  • Government-NGO collaboration and sustainability of orphans and vulnerable children projects in southern Africa. 
  • Health Status of Children Enrolled in a Family Navigator Program to Eliminate Intergenerational Poverty. 
  • Health education: historic windows of opportunity. 
  • Health education: historic windows of opportunity. 
  • Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy. 
  • Healthy for now? A cross-sectional study of the comorbidities in obese preschool children in the United States. 
  • Helping poor mothers and children. 
  • How does family drug treatment court participation affect child welfare outcomes? 
  • How many lives are at stake? Assessing 2030 sustainable development goal trajectories for maternal and child health. 
  • Hyperlipidemia in children and adolescents. 
  • Image Gently campaign promotes radiation protection for children. 
  • Incarceration in fragile families. 
  • Insulin pump therapy in toddlers and preschool children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Intersection of child abuse and children's exposure to domestic violence. 
  • Joint policy statement--guidelines for care of children in the emergency department. 
  • Long-term complications following childhood and adolescent cancer: foundations for providing risk-based health care for survivors. 
  • Mapping for prevention: GIS models for directing childhood lead poisoning prevention programs. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Mass trauma: disasters, terrorism, and war. 
  • Mental and Physical Health of Children in Foster Care. 
  • Mental health and substance abuse services to parents of children involved with child welfare: a study of racial and ethnic differences for American Indian parents. 
  • Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 
  • Mental health need and access to mental health services by youths involved with child welfare: a national survey. 
  • Multi-system responses in the context of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. 
  • Multisite formative assessment for the Pathways study to prevent obesity in American Indian schoolchildren. 
  • Nurse home visits for infants and toddlers of low-income families improve behavioural, language and attention outcomes at age 6-9 years; paraprofessional visits improve visual attention and task switching. 
  • Nutrition policy research that can lead to reduced childhood obesity in the U.S. 
  • Obesity and insulin resistance in young people. 
  • Outcomes of mental health care for children and adolescents: I. A comprehensive conceptual model. 
  • Pairing nurses and social workers in schools: North Carolina’s school-based child and family support teams. 
  • Parent training with behavioral couples therapy for fathers' alcohol abuse: effects on substance use, parental relationship, parenting, and CPS involvement. 
  • Parental Incarceration and Child Overweight: Results From a Sample of Disadvantaged Children in the United States. 
  • Parental arrest and children involved with child welfare services agencies. 
  • Pathways family intervention for third-grade American Indian children. 
  • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Families and Healthcare Team Interaction Trajectories During Acute Hospitalization. 
  • Pediatric chronic kidney disease in North Carolina. 
  • Pediatrics and the unwanted child in history: foundling homes, disease, and the origins of foster care in New York City, 1860 to 1920. 
  • Physical activity, genetic, and nutritional considerations in childhood weight management. 
  • Physical activity-related and weather-related practices of child care centers from 2 states. 
  • Posttraumatic stress symptoms in children and adolescents referred for child welfare investigation. A national sample of in-home and out-of-home care. 
  • Predictors of outcome of myocarditis. 
  • Prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of DSM-5 proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Problems of Southeast Asian children in a refugee camp. 
  • Psychiatric disorder, impairment, and service use in rural African American and white youth. 
  • Psychosocial Profiles of Parents of Children with Undiagnosed Diseases: Managing Well or Just Managing? 
  • Public health interventions for addressing childhood overweight: analysis of the business case. 
  • Quality improvement in pediatrics: past, present, and future. 
  • Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana. 
  • Reaching the unreached: a miracle in the making. 
  • Realizing the dream. 
  • Reconsidering Our Domestic Violence System. 
  • Reconsidering Physical Activity Restrictions for Mononephric Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group. 
  • Research priorities for the nursing of children and their families: a Delphi study 
  • Researching the world of children 
  • Review of chronic graft-versus-host disease in children after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: nursing perspective. 
  • SAFE Homes: is it worth the cost? An evaluation of a group home permanency planning program for children who first enter out-of-home care. 
  • School-based physical activity programme in preadolescent girls (9-11 years): a feasibility trial in Karachi, Pakistan. 
  • Schools and obesity prevention: creating school environments and policies to promote healthy eating and physical activity. 
  • Small-Magnitude Effect Sizes in Epigenetic End Points are Important in Children's Environmental Health Studies: The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center's Epigenetics Working Group. 
  • Social context of pain in children with Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome: parental pain history and family environment. 
  • Social information-processing patterns partially mediate the effect of early physical abuse on later conduct problems. 
  • Sociodemographic and psychosocial factors in childhood as predictors of adult mortality. 
  • Striving for Equity in Community Mental Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Care for BIPOC Youth. 
  • Systematic social observation of children's neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost-effective method. 
  • The Durham Family Initiative: a preventive system of care. 
  • The National Children's Study in North Carolina: a study of the effect of the environment on children's health, growth, and development. 
  • The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, soda, and USDA policy: who benefits? 
  • The Value Adults Place on Child Health and Functional Status. 
  • The benefits of motivational interviewing and coaching for improving the practice of comprehensive family assessments in child welfare. 
  • The children's vaccine initiative...and other promises to keep. 
  • The costs of gun violence against children. 
  • The epidemic of obesity in American Indian communities and the need for childhood obesity-prevention programs. 
  • The food industry and self-regulation: standards to promote success and to avoid public health failures. 
  • The love song of the headless fatty and other observations. 
  • The role of CT in professionalism: accreditation, certification and the welfare of our children. 
  • Three-year change in the wellbeing of orphaned and separated children in institutional and family-based care settings in five low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Trauma-Informed Care for Children in the Child Welfare System: An Initial Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Parenting Workshop. 
  • Turnings and adaptations in resilient daughters of battered women 
  • Use of well-child visits in high-deductible health plans. 
  • Using air pollution based community clusters to explore air pollution health effects in children. 
  • Victimization and Adversity in Child Welfare Involved Youth: The Cumulative Influence on Child and Caregiver Reported Behavioral Health Symptoms. 
  • Visioning services for children affected by HIV and AIDS through a family lens. 
  • What about trauma? Accounting for trauma exposure and symptoms in the risk of suicide among adolescents who have been adopted. 
  • What we know and what we still need to learn 
  • When Women and Children Made the Policy Agenda - The Sheppard-Towner Act, 100 Years Later. 
  • Women and the invention of well child care. 
  • Young Adolescents' Digital Technology Use, Perceived Impairments, and Well-Being in a Representative Sample. 
  • Youth self-report of physical and sexual abuse: a latent class analysis. 
  • [UNICEF--the vulnerable years]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology
  • Snyder-Fickler, Elizabeth, Research Scientist, Senior, Center for Child and Family Policy
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing