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• Parental Response to the Suicide Attempts of Adolescents: A Narrative Analysis 

  Noronha, Lavina Marilla (2000)

  A lack of long-term care facilities in the community, poor quality of services in the existing residential facilities, and the professionals' exclusive focus on adolescents and neglect of families in intervention were some ...

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• Foster Care Placement Decisions: Is Race a Factor 

  Harris, Gardenia (1999)

  This is a cross-sectional retrospective study of the decision to place children in foster care in Illinois. Computerized administrative data were analyzed using logistic regression analysis and Classification and Regression ...

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• Child Welfare Supervisors as Learners and Teachers in the Field 

  Wehrmann, Kathryn Conley (1999)

  Implications for practice include use of an operationalized form of social cognitive learning known as cognitive apprenticeship as a way of preparing new child welfare workers for professional practice. Policy implications ...

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• The Impact of Supervisory Behavior on Permanency Rates for Foster Children in a Child Welfare Context 

  Ahearn, Kathleen Kraus (1999)

  Worker characteristics such as education, empowerment, and experience did not act as mediators of supervisory characteristics and behaviors. The moderating variables of average case load and type of foster care, either ...

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• The Social and Structural Contexts of Sexual Health Status: A Study of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Chicago Women 

  Coel, Rachel Anne (2000)

  These findings support the theory that appropriate sexual health interventions must focus on the larger structural inequalities that drive risk behaviors in order to increase opportunities for empowered healthy decision-making. ...

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