Table of Contents:
From the Editor: Eyes on the Prize:
Maintaining a Family Focus At Home and Abroad
Parent Engagement in Child Safety
Conferences: The Role of Parent Representatives
Marina Lalayants
Engaging Families in the Child
Welfare Process Utilizing the Family-Directed Structural Assesment Tool
Tara McLendon, Don McLendon, Pamela S. Dickerson, Jane K. Lyons,
and Karen Tapp
Measuring Social Support Among
Kinship Caregivers: Validity and Reliability of the Family Support Scale
Kerry Littlewood, Jayme R. Swanke, Anne Strozier, and David Kondrat
Defining a Target Population at High
Risk of Long- Term Foster Care: Barriers to Permanency for Families of Children
with Serious Emotional Disturbances
Becci A. Akin, Stephanie A. Bryson, Tom McDonald, and Sheila
Walker
The Association Between Child
Maltreatment and Coping Strategies Among Finnish 9th Graders
Sari Lepistö and Eija Paavilainen
Child Protection Policy Reform in
Quebec: Its Impact on Placement and Stability in Substitute Care
Daniel Turcotte and Sonia Hélie
Mental Health of Foster Children: Do
Biological Fathers Matter?
Femke Vanschoonlandt, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen,
Skrällan De Maeyer, and Caroline Andries