Life Course Outcomes on Mental and Physical Health
The Impact of Foster Care on Adulthood
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Objective. We compared the prevalence rates of mental health and physical health problems between adults with histories of childhood foster care and those without. Methods. We used 2003–2005 California Health Interview Survey data (n = 70 456) to test our hypothesis that adults with childhood histories of foster care will report higher rates of mental and physical health concerns, including those that affect the ability to work, than will those without. Results. Adults with a history of childhood foster care had more than twice the odds of receiving Social Security Disability Insurance because they were unable to work owing to mental or physical health problems for the past year, even after stratifying by age and adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Conclusions. Childhood foster care may be a sentinel event, signaling the increased risk of adulthood mental and physical health problems. A mental and physical health care delivery program that includes screening and treatment and ensures follow-up for children and youths who have had contact with the foster care system may decrease these individuals’ disproportionately high prevalence of poor outcomes throughout their adulthood
Affect (linguistics) · Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Foster care · Health care · Life course approach · Logistic regression · Mental health · Odds · Population · Psychiatry · Socioeconomic status · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology
The Many Faces of the “Foster Care Youth” Label
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of College Students with a Background in Foster Care
Defining Success
No youth left behind to human trafficking
Characteristics of foster care history as risk factors for psychiatric disorders among youth in care
Health Outcomes of Medically and Economically Vulnerable Adults
Mental and Physical Health of Children in Foster Care
The Value of a College Degree for Foster Care Alumni
Cognitive Functioning of Children in Out-of-Home Care
The impact of foster care experiences on marijuana use in young adults
Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later
Young Adults with a History of Residential Youth Care
Family Separation and Maternal Self-rated Health
Foster parent perspectives on necessary supports for youth and their families departing foster care
Frequent Marijuana or Alcohol Use in Low-Income Emerging Adults
Coping with Stigma
Chronic Health Conditions and Children in Foster Care
Dental healthcare utilisation among young adults who were in societal out‐of‐home care as children
Psychological distress among care leavers during the transition to adulthood
Dating violence in adolescents in residential care
A Phenomenological Exploration of Adoptive Parent Experiences of Support During the Adoption Process
A matched case-control study comparing the health status of youth village alumni in Israel to the general population
Women sleeping rough
How children in foster care engage with loyalty conflict
A retrospective exploration of care experiences shaping the mental health trajectories of children and young people in Care
Who Goes to College? Social Capital and Other Predictors of College Enrollment for Foster-Care Youth
Incorporating Measures of Structural Racism into Population Studies of Reproductive Health in the United States
A Systematic Review of Mental Health Disorders of Children in Foster Care
Out‐of‐home care in childhood and biomedical risk factors in middle‐age
A retrospective exploration of care experiences shaping the mental health trajectories of children and young people in care
Outcomes of children who grew up in foster care
Navigating Motherhood and Mental Health
Association between U.S. state prenatal drug use laws and child welfare reporting in Alabama, Maryland and Utah
Challenges Faced by Young Mothers with a Care History and Views of Stakeholders About the Potential for Group Family Nurse Partnership to Support Their Needs
Barriers and facilitators to healthcare access among youth transitioning out of foster care
Predictors of care leavers’ health outcomes
Comprehensive residential education
Family histories and multiple transitions among homeless young adults
Caregiver perceptions of the pediatric medical home model to address the health services needs of youth in foster care
Disability pension among adult former child welfare clients
Cross-informant agreement between caregivers and teachers for prosocial behavior across child welfare settings
Factors associated with provision of instrumental social support for physical activity in a foster parent population
Vitamin D deficiency in a Minnesota-based foster care population
Empowering transition age youth through trauma-informed, strengths-based, youth-centered, and anti-racist practices
The influence of Decision-making ecology on placement into foster care
Supportive housing for precariously housed families in the child welfare system
Childhood experiences, growing up “in care,” and trust
Bayesian analysis of the factors explaining the disruptive behaviour of care leavers
Adapting an evidence-based parenting program for child welfare involved teens and their caregivers
Experiences and needs of homeless youth with a history of foster care
Out-of-home care in childhood and socio-economic functioning in adulthood
Reforming child institutional care in the Post-Soviet bloc
Childhood risk factors for disability pension among adult former Swedish child welfare clients
Exploring fit for the cultural adaptation of a self-determination model for youth transitioning from out-of-home care
Childhood out-of-home placement and pathways to adult socioeconomic outcomes
A decade lost
Association of public care in childhood with social, criminal, cognitive, and health outcomes in middle-age
Early Life Conditions of Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Inner-City African Americans
Discordant patterns and adulthood consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement
Somebody's Children or Nobody's Children? How the Sociological Perspective Could Enliven Research on Foster Care
Effects of Homelessness and Child Maltreatment on the Likelihood of Engaging in Property and Violent Crime During Adulthood
Adult Health and Social Outcomes of Children Who Have Been in Public Care
Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood
Psychiatric symptoms and substance use disorders in a nationally representative sample of American adolescents involved with foster care
Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Older Youths in the Foster Care System
A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology
Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
Early outcomes for young adults transitioning from out‐of‐home care in the USA
Foster care children and family homelessness
Associations Between Racial Discrimination, Limited English Proficiency, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among 6 Asian Ethnic Groups in California
Health Status and Health Services Access and Utilization Among Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese Children in California
Race, foster care, and the politics of abandonment in New York City
Social Circumstances and Education
The contribution of childhood environment to the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in health in adult life
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