Aron Shlonsky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4415461 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aron Shlonsky |
| PRENOMES | Aron |
| SOBRENOME | Shlonsky |
| ASSINATURA | SHLONSKY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8096-726X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 347 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Intimate Partner Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Self-Assessed Risk of Revictimisation
Intimate partner violence (IPV) revictimisation is associated with innumerable negative consequences for victim-survivors. Accurately assessing the risk of future violence can assist service providers and victim-survivors to implement preventive safety measures. Existing tools assess the risk of revictimisation with variable accuracy – however, these tools rarely ask victim-survivors the extent to which they perceive themselves to be at risk. Tho…
Housing and Support Interventions for Homeless Youth in High-Income Countries
Purpose: Interventions combining housing with support services have emerged as a preferred approach to support homeless youth, however their effectiveness remains uncertain. Method: This systematic review examined such interventions’ impact on outcomes for homeless youth (16–25) in high-income countries, identified their core components, assessed barriers and enablers to implementation, and documented outcome instruments used. We undertook a comp…
Somewhere in-between’
Nations such as Australia rely on foster care to provide for children who cannot live with their family. The foster care role is challenging and unique, combining elements of personal motivations, public responsibility, and intersections of private and public space. Foster carer shortages are also a challenge for many nations. This study presents findings regarding foster carer identity that emerged from a qualitative study exploring foster carer…
Cyber Victimization, Traditional Victimization, and Suicidal Ideation
Reunifying Children in Out-of-Home Care
Hervorming Sociale Regelgeving
In memory and honor of Dr. Duncan Lindsey, founding editor of Children and Youth Services Review
Balancing the high personal costs and rewards in providing foster care
Examining the impact of an accommodation and support intervention in reducing homelessness amongst care leavers in Australia
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Policies and Interventions that Improve Health, Psychosocial, and Economic Outcomes for Young People Leaving the Out-of-Home Care System
Young people who transition to adulthood from out-of-home care (OOHC) are more likely to experience a range of poorer outcomes relative to their same-age peers in the community. This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of policies or interventions (hereafter “interventions”) aimed at improving housing, health, education, economic, and psychosocial outcomes for youth leaving OOHC (hereafter “care leavers”). Eleven databases of published l…
Psychometric evaluation of the self-efficacy questionnaire for children (SEQ-C)
Measuring Competence in Social Work
Professor Marion Bogo’s stellar academic career was distinguished by her long-standing advocacy for high quality assessment of social work students. Her work was a driving force behind the development of meaningful, authentic and relevant field assessment that incorporates specific, definable, observable skills with higher-order thinking. This article briefly describes assessment of competencies and two conceptual issues identified as limitations…
Exploring migrant mothers' experiences of alienation in association with parenting
Alienation describes an individual's sense of separation between themselves and various objects, such as other people, their community or society. Alienation is mediated by a wide range of psychological and social factors, and most people likely experience it in some form across their lifespan. Previous research suggests that migrants may be at an increased risk of experiencing alienation due to the challenges associated with adapting to a new en…
Interventions that Address Institutional Child Maltreatment
Purpose This evidence and gap map collates evidence reporting on the effectiveness of interventions aimed to prevent, disclose, respond to, or treat child maltreatment occurring in institutional settings. Methods A comprehensive and systematic literature search identified primary studies and systematic reviews meeting the review’s eligibility criteria. Literature screening, data extraction and critical appraisals were undertaken independently by …
Supervisors’ experiences in supervising higher education students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds during work-integrated learning of health and non-health courses
Trajectories of psychosocial functioning and attachment behaviors among children adopted in the Ontario child welfare system
The adoption of children involved in the child welfare system is viewed as a favorable outcome when family reconstitution is impossible, partially due to the relationship security afforded by long-term placement permanence. Recognition of the importance of secure caregiver-child relationships has informed the development of caregiving-oriented attachment-focused services, such as those provided by the Therapeutic Family Care Program (TFCP). The p…
Changing considerations of matching foster carers and children
Increasing rigor and reducing bias in qualitative research
Qualitative research methods have traditionally been criticised for lacking rigor, and impressionistic and biased results. Subsequently, as qualitative methods have been increasingly used in social work inquiry, efforts to address these criticisms have also increased. Applied thematic analysis provides structure and integrates reflexivity in qualitative research using textual data. In this article, we describe how applied thematic analysis was op…
Interventions to Mitigate Bias in Social Work Decision-Making
Pathways of Children Reported for Domestic and Family Violence to Australian Child Protection
Child protection systems often contend with domestic and family violence (DFV) as a maltreatment concern, yet few large-scale studies have explored how child protection services (CPS) systems respond to DFV compared with other concerns. Secondary longitudinal analysis of administrative data from three Australian State CPS systems finds that the number of DFV reports increased faster than notifications for other concerns, and children reported for…
Permanent Care Orders in Victoria
Seeking permanency for children is a central concern of Western child protection and out-of-home care systems, with approaches differing between and within countries. Historically, Australia has not prioritised adoption as a permanency pathway. In the state of Victoria there has been a preference for the use of Permanent Care Orders (PCOs), which have been positioned highly in the permanency hierarchy. Despite their significance, little research …
Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes
Optimising community health worker (CHW) programmes requires evidence-based policies on their education, deployment, and management. This guideline aims to inform efforts by planners, policy makers, and managers to improve CHW programmes as part of an integrated approach to strengthen primary health care and health systems. The development of this guideline followed the standard WHO approach to developing global guidelines. We conducted one overv…
Long Term Harm to Immigrant Infants and Children
Informing Permanent Care Discourses
The policy, legal and service configuration of a child and family welfare system reflects the historically predominant ideological perspectives relating to children, families, community and state. Examination of parliamentary debates provides a window on the discourses relating to policy and legislative change in a jurisdiction. This article presents a document analysis of parliamentary debates in the Australian state of Victoria using Applied Th…
Parenting Interventions for Indigenous Child Psychosocial Functioning
Objectives: To scope evaluations of Indigenous parenting programs designed to improve child psychosocial outcomes. Methods: Electronic databases, gray literature, Indigenous websites and journals, and reference lists were searched. The search was restricted to high-income countries with a history of colonialism. Results: Sixteen studies describing evaluations of 13 programs were found. Most were controlled studies from United States and Australia…
Implementation frameworks in child, youth and family services – Results from a scoping review
Implementation frameworks are designed to articulate the actions and behaviors considered necessary for successful implementation of interventions, programs or services. Such frameworks have been increasingly used in social services for children, youth and families (which include family and parenting support, out-of-home care (foster care) placements, child protection, family violence, juvenile justice and community services). The purposes of thi…
The next step
Risk assessment in context
The ties that bind II
Assessing and Promoting Quality in Kin and Nonkin Foster Care
This article provides a comprehensive look at the elements that indicate quality of care in kinship and nonrelated foster homes, highlighting the philosophical reasons for providing quality care and the theoretical underpinnings of kinship care. The sparse literature on quality of care in foster homes is then augmented with indicators of quality in nonfoster homes, identifying a series of domains of quality. By articulating these domains we inten…
Confidence and Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse
Objective: Child welfare agencies have moved toward standardized risk assessment measures to improve the reliability with which child’s risk of abuse is predicted. Nevertheless, these tools require a degree of subjective judgment. Research to date has not substantially investigated the influence of specific context and worker characteristics on professional judgment in the use of risk assessment measures. Method: This research utilized standardiz…
The Ties That Bind
Research on siblings in foster care has been limited to date, despite the fact that most children in out-of-home care also have siblings in system. Using administrative data, this study examines a cross-section (N = 35,216) of foster children in a large metropolitan area of the Western United States to determine the factors associated with intact sibling placement. Starting care at the same time, placement in relative care, and matched gendered p…
Operationalizing Evidence-Based Practice
Although evidence-based practice (EBP) has received increasing attention in social work in the past few years, there has been limited success in moving from academic discussion to engaging social workers in the process of implementing EBP in practice. This article describes the challenges, successes, and future aims in the process of developing a university-based institute for evidence-based social work. Aspects of the development include attempt…
The other kin
Toward Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Child Welfare
Drawing on the authors’ experience in the international Campbell Collaboration, this essay presents a principled and pragmatic approach to evidence-informed decisions about child welfare. This approach takes into account the growing body of empirical evidence on the reliability and validity of various methods of research synthesis. It also considers wide variations in the cultural, economic, and political contexts in which policy and practice dec…
Placement of children in out-of-home care in Québec, Canada
Reflections on the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice
As the process of evidence-based practice (EBP) gains a foothold in the curricula of schools of social work and the various helping professions, instructors have been encountering a unique set of challenges. On one hand, educators must develop new curricula to convey material that is often complex and is, even in its most advanced state, still in its infancy. On the other hand, instructors may find themselves in the awkward position of challengin…
Intervening to improve outcomes for siblings in foster care
Reliability and Predictive Validity of a Consensus-Based Risk Assessment Tool
This study examines the reliability and predictive validity of the risk assessment tool used in Ontario, Canada. For the reliability portion of the study, a stratified random sample of 132 cases receiving services was drawn from one of Ontario's largest children's aid societies. Predictive validity was tested on 1,118 cases that were selected and administratively followed for varying lengths of time. Internal consistency was poor to fair; inter-r…
Does differential response make a difference
Large numbers of domestic violence ( DV ) cases on child protection caseloads have necessitated the development of practices that address both DV and child safety. The first step in this process is to gain an understanding of the differences between DV ‐involved cases and other forms of maltreatment. The implementation of a differential response service model in O ntario offered an opportunity to compare risk assessment ratings, service outcomes …
School-Based Education Programs for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
Objective: To assess evidence of the effectiveness of school-based education programs for the prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA). The programs deliver information about CSA and strategies to help children avoid it and encourage help seeking. Methods: Systematic review including meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs, and quasi-RCTs. Results: Twenty-four studies with 5,802 participants were included. Child self-prot…
Family reunification for placed children in Québec, Canada
From concept to implementation
English Evidence-based practice and policy is an innovative concept born out of medicine and surrounded by a great deal of debate. Although researchers have begun to define and build frameworks for the process of evidence-based social work (EBSW), few practitioners appear to employ evidence-based approaches and relatively little is known about how to facilitate this form of knowledge transfer. Arguments in favour of evidence-based practice includ…
The stability of child protection placements in Québec, Canada
From evolving discourses to new practice approaches in domestic violence and child protective services
Psychosocial Interventions for Parents with Incurable End‐Stage Cancer
ObjectiveParenting is a primary concern for patients with minor children facing palliative‐stage cancer, yet psychosocial support addressing parenting concerns during end‐stage cancer is not routinely provided in the healthcare setting. The purpose of this review is to: (a) identify evaluation studies describing psychosocial interventions for parents with incurable end‐stage cancer; and (b) review the effectiveness evidence.MethodThis review was …
Siblings in Foster Care
Permanent Care Orders in Victoria
Seeking permanency for children is a central concern of Western child protection and out-of-home care systems, with approaches differing between and within countries. Historically, Australia has not prioritised adoption as a permanency pathway. In the state of Victoria there has been a preference for the use of Permanent Care Orders (PCOs), which have been positioned highly in the permanency hierarchy. Despite their significance, little research …
Balancing the high personal costs and rewards in providing foster care
Interventions that Address Institutional Child Maltreatment
Purpose This evidence and gap map collates evidence reporting on the effectiveness of interventions aimed to prevent, disclose, respond to, or treat child maltreatment occurring in institutional settings. Methods A comprehensive and systematic literature search identified primary studies and systematic reviews meeting the review’s eligibility criteria. Literature screening, data extraction and critical appraisals were undertaken independently by …
Examining the impact of an accommodation and support intervention in reducing homelessness amongst care leavers in Australia
Risk assessment in context
The assessment and management of risk in child welfare services
Assessing and Promoting Quality in Kin and Nonkin Foster Care
This article provides a comprehensive look at the elements that indicate quality of care in kinship and nonrelated foster homes, highlighting the philosophical reasons for providing quality care and the theoretical underpinnings of kinship care. The sparse literature on quality of care in foster homes is then augmented with indicators of quality in nonfoster homes, identifying a series of domains of quality. By articulating these domains we inten…
The Ties That Bind
Research on siblings in foster care has been limited to date, despite the fact that most children in out-of-home care also have siblings in system. Using administrative data, this study examines a cross-section (N = 35,216) of foster children in a large metropolitan area of the Western United States to determine the factors associated with intact sibling placement. Starting care at the same time, placement in relative care, and matched gendered p…
From concept to implementation
English Evidence-based practice and policy is an innovative concept born out of medicine and surrounded by a great deal of debate. Although researchers have begun to define and build frameworks for the process of evidence-based social work (EBSW), few practitioners appear to employ evidence-based approaches and relatively little is known about how to facilitate this form of knowledge transfer. Arguments in favour of evidence-based practice includ…
Siblings in Foster Care
The other kin
The ties that bind II
The next step
Is survival the fittest? A post hoc evaluation of event history estimations in an experimental design
Reflections on the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice
As the process of evidence-based practice (EBP) gains a foothold in the curricula of schools of social work and the various helping professions, instructors have been encountering a unique set of challenges. On one hand, educators must develop new curricula to convey material that is often complex and is, even in its most advanced state, still in its infancy. On the other hand, instructors may find themselves in the awkward position of challengin…
Operationalizing Evidence-Based Practice
Although evidence-based practice (EBP) has received increasing attention in social work in the past few years, there has been limited success in moving from academic discussion to engaging social workers in the process of implementing EBP in practice. This article describes the challenges, successes, and future aims in the process of developing a university-based institute for evidence-based social work. Aspects of the development include attempt…
Child Welfare Research
Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this book demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. The chapters in this book assess the effect of research on the full spectrum of child welfare services. The book covers every base. The opening chapters situate child welfare research in the modern context; they are followed by discussions of evidence-based pract…
Reliability and Predictive Validity of a Consensus-Based Risk Assessment Tool
This study examines the reliability and predictive validity of the risk assessment tool used in Ontario, Canada. For the reliability portion of the study, a stratified random sample of 132 cases receiving services was drawn from one of Ontario's largest children's aid societies. Predictive validity was tested on 1,118 cases that were selected and administratively followed for varying lengths of time. Internal consistency was poor to fair; inter-r…
From evolving discourses to new practice approaches in domestic violence and child protective services
Child Welfare Research
There has been a focus in recent research on improving current child welfare practices and programmes that protect children from abuse and neglect. This collection gathers together those research developments - and how they have been translated into policies, programmes, and practice
Toward Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Child Welfare
Drawing on the authors’ experience in the international Campbell Collaboration, this essay presents a principled and pragmatic approach to evidence-informed decisions about child welfare. This approach takes into account the growing body of empirical evidence on the reliability and validity of various methods of research synthesis. It also considers wide variations in the cultural, economic, and political contexts in which policy and practice dec…
Confidence and Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse
Objective: Child welfare agencies have moved toward standardized risk assessment measures to improve the reliability with which child’s risk of abuse is predicted. Nevertheless, these tools require a degree of subjective judgment. Research to date has not substantially investigated the influence of specific context and worker characteristics on professional judgment in the use of risk assessment measures. Method: This research utilized standardiz…
Risk, Resilience and Outcomes
Systematic Synthesis of Qualitative Research
Qualitative synthesis within the family of systematic reviews meets an urgent need to use knowledge derived from qualitative studies to inform practice, research, and policy. Despite the contingent nature of evidence gleaned from the synthesis of qualitative studies, systematic synthesis is an important technique and, used judiciously, can deepen our understanding of the contextual dimensions that emerge from qualitative research. This book prese…
Beyond the risk paradigm
Does differential response make a difference
Large numbers of domestic violence ( DV ) cases on child protection caseloads have necessitated the development of practices that address both DV and child safety. The first step in this process is to gain an understanding of the differences between DV ‐involved cases and other forms of maltreatment. The implementation of a differential response service model in O ntario offered an opportunity to compare risk assessment ratings, service outcomes …
Placement of children in out-of-home care in Québec, Canada
Acting Like It Matters
Simulation-based training is often used to prepare health practitioners and is increasingly employed to train child welfare workers. This scoping review systematically searched the published and grey literature for studies that evaluated training for child welfare practitioners and used simulation methods that included standardized actors. Three studies met inclusion criteria, all documenting improvement in participants' use of specific skills. O…
Juvenile Reentry and Aftercare Interventions
This study uses systematic review methods to investigate the use of mentoring programs to assist young people in successfully transitioning back into their communities following a juvenile correctional placement. Few studies were found that used comparison or control groups and measured recidivism outcomes. The results of the studies were mixed, with one study finding no differences between groups, and the other two studies finding some recidivis…
Psychology (45 obras) · Medicine (37 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (27 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (26 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Nursing (17 obras) · Computer Science (15 obras) · Developmental psychology (14 obras) · Welfare (14 obras)