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A review of the scientific literature showed few valid tools for assessing reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED), two diagnostic entities traditionally grouped under “attachment disorders.” The Early TRAuma-related Disorders Questionnaire (ETRADQ), a caregiver report, was developed to assess attachment disorders in school-age children based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth edition criteria. This study sought to validate this instrument.…
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Indigenous children are overrepresented in child protection systems in the United States and to an even greater degree in Canada. Canada has recently passed federal child welfare legislation, Bill C-92, with the goal of affirming the rights of Indigenous Peoples and establishing guidelines with respect to child and family services for Indigenous children. The aim of this article is to contribute to ongoing discussions about the recently passed Canadian legislation, drawing on lessons learned in the United States context. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), passed in the United…
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Prior work has documented that internationally adopted youth can experience learning difficulties, yet research exploring academic motivation in this population is scant. Moreover, no prior international adoption studies have investigated precursors to motivation. Guided by expectancy-value theory, we attempted to address this gap in the literature by examining the role of two antecedents: ethnic identity (search and affirmation) and sense of school belonging. In doing so, we explored (1) the role of ethnic identity in predicting internationally adopted adolescents' (N…
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This study examined parent-child relationship variables (child attachment, parental sensitivity, and prior parenting experience) and child behavior problems in parents and their international adopted children with a cleft lip and palate (CLP+; n = 29) and without a CLP- (n = 55). First, results do not show any group differences on child attachment (secure attachment CLP+ = 69%, CLP- = 59%), or on externalizing problems, but fewer internalizing problems were found for CLP children. Second, mothers of CLP children,…
This information sheet outlines provincial adoption provisions for Indigenous children. Provincial protections pertaining to the adoption of Indigenous children are compiled in two tables, displayed and discussed below. As Canada’s government prepares to draft federal legislation in support of Indigenous child welfare, it must consider the strengths and vulnerabilities of current provincial legislation. Such consideration will help federal, provincial, and territorial governments to ensure Indigenous children remain connected to their families, communities and cultures even when placed for…
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On December 14, 2017, the Senate adopted an order of reference authorizing the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology (“the committee”) to “examine and report on such issues as may arise from time to time relating to social affairs, science and technology generally.” Under this general order of reference, the committee held three meetings on 20, 21 and 22 March 2018 to examine the issue of the common practice, in the decades immediately following World War II of forcing Canadian “unwed mothers” to surrender their babies to adoption, that was…
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This study investigated the widely-used but under-researched program for training resource parents (i.e., foster, adoptive, or kinship parents) known as preservice PRIDE (Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education). The sample consisted of 174 participants in Ontario, Canada. Examination of the process of training showed that the participants were highly satisfied with the training and rated it as being of high quality. The participants experienced a large pretest-posttest mean gain (d = 1.17,p < 0.001) on the total score…
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Canadian society is ascribing increasing importance to the large numbers of Indigenous children who have – and continue to live – in the child welfare system. An unexplored aspect of this phenomenon is how such children rebuild their Indigenous identities once they become adults and are no longer in care. Recent estimates suggest up to 20,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children were removed from their families during what was known as the Sixties Scoop (Sixties Scoop Survivors, 2015). The Sixties Scoop is part of Canada’s colonial story in which the prevalent assimilative…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the seventeenth session (20 Mar 2017 – 12 Apr 2017) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This resource guide was developed by Child Protection Services of Prince Edward Island, Canada; the Department of Community Services and Seniors; and Prince Edward Island’s First Nations. It offers a fairly comprehensive guide to engaging with the Aboriginal community on Prince Edward Island, including a history of the Mi’kmaq people, a list of community-based services and organizations, an overview of Mi’kmaq spirituality, a guide to aboriginal culture (including views on parenting), a description of cultural practices and beliefs, an introduction to the Mi’kmaq language, a history of the…