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Child Welfare and Health for Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 5072

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Assistant Guest Editor
School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Interests: trauma and substance abuse among child welfare and criminal justice involving women, race, diversity, and inclusion

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Assistant Guest Editor
School of Social Work, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27604 USA
Interests: fathering; kinship care; family wellbeing; Black family dynamics

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Assistant Guest Editor
Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7146, USA
Interests: adoption and guardianship; child wellbeing; kinship and foster care outcomes; intervention research; experimental and quasi-experimental designs; administrative data analysis; translational research; child welfare policy; social and economic justice

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Chief Guest Editor
Department of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, USA
Interests: child welfare; kinship care; mental health; substance abuse with minority population

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Child welfare is a continuum of services to ensure safe and nurturing environments for children and to provide support to parents and guardians that enables them to better care for their children. Despite the noble intentions of child welfare agencies, many children and families who receive services experience challenges such as mental health problems, academic deficits, and criminal justice involvement.  In order to ensure substantiable positive outcomes related to health and well-being more research is needed to identify risks and protective factors for children and families.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish relevant research regarding children who reside in non-kin foster care and kinship care (formal or informal).  Publications may also include children who are not in care, but are receiving services from a child welfare agency (e.g., investigations). Manuscripts in this Special Issue will cover the following domains: physical, emotional, mental, and behavioral health; social, cognitive, and educational outcomes  When examining the outcomes of health and well-being, it is important to consider the strengths of families and communities, as well as the impact of race, ethnicity, and culture on sustainable development and/or social sustainability.  Submissions should include original conceptual and empirical manuscripts or critical reviews (systematic reviews or meta-analyses).

Dr. Tyreasa Washington
Dr. Joan M. Blakey
Dr. Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet
Dr. Nancy Rolock
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • child protective services
  • foster care
  • kinship care
  • child wellbeing

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Parental Discipline and Early Childhood Development in Rural China
by Hani Fatima, Shuhang Zhao, Ai Yue, Shanshan Li and Yaojiang Shi
Sustainability 2022, 14(4), 1988; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14041988 - 10 Feb 2022
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Children who are under the age of five in underdeveloped and developing countries, including China, exhibit developmental delays due to their exposure to risks such as impoverishment, deprived health conditions, parental punishment, neglect, and poor psychosocial stimulation. Adverse experiences during the formative years [...] Read more.
Children who are under the age of five in underdeveloped and developing countries, including China, exhibit developmental delays due to their exposure to risks such as impoverishment, deprived health conditions, parental punishment, neglect, and poor psychosocial stimulation. Adverse experiences during the formative years of life, such as harsh parental discipline, may put them at risk for poor physical and mental well-being. The aim of this research is to explore the pervasiveness and developmental outcomes of different forms of discipline practices in the underdeveloped rural areas of China. To do this, we used cross-sectional data on child–caregiver dyads from a large survey held in 22 poor counties in the QinBa Mountain Region. The sample included 1622 children aged 12–36 months. Partakers were requested to respond to a general survey on parenting which included basic demographic questions, the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional (ASQ-SE), the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III), and questions on exposure of children to different discipline practices. Our findings from OLS estimates reveal that aversive discipline methods adversely affect cognitive, language, and socio-emotional development, whereas, non-aversive discipline practices have constructive effects on cognitive, language, and motor development of children. Full article
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