Purpose Schools can be an arena for age appropriate and objective information about the support families can get from the child protection services (CPS). There is reason to believe that many children have misconceptions about the CPS and are afraid to talk to the social workers who investigates if there is reason to be concerned about a child’s well-being. The aim of the study was to investigate ...

Background: Parental mental health and substance abuse problems are found in reports of concern to child protection and welfare services. The aim of this study was first to investigate what characterized these reports and how they differed from reports with other types of concerns. Two hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis was (i) if a report contains concerns about mental health and substance ...

Background: Mental health disorders among children and youths are common and often have negative consequences for children, youths, and families if unrecognized and untreated. With the goal of early recognition, primary care physicians (PCPs) play a signifcant role in the detection and referral of mental disorders. However, PCPs report several barriers related to confdence, knowledge, and ...

This study investigated the effect of a school-based and teacher-led psychosocial intervention that targeted academic underachievement among conflict-affected youths. We hypothesized that participants in the intervention would experience improved school functioning and reduced levels of stress-related symptoms after the intervention, in comparison to a control group. The study was carried out ...

Background - When a child welfare service agency receives a report of concern, there is an initial screening to decide whether an investigation needs to be initiated. In addition to the decision maker, case factors, external factors, and organizational factors have an impact on decision making in Child Welfare Services (CWS). Few recent studies have considered the impact of case factors on the initial ...

Background: Parental mental health problems is a common source of concern reported to child welfare and protection services (CWPS). In this study we explored to what extent the child was invited to participate in the investigation process. We aimed to study: (a) what was the current practice in the child protection service in Norway when the CWPS received a report of concern about children whose ...

Artikkelen utforsker pedagogiske mulighetsrom for læring og danning når elever er eksponert for skremmende beskrivelser og bilder gjennom media. Det empiriske materialet er intervjuer med 30 lærere som høsten 2011 tok imot elever etter terrorangrepet og massedrapene i Norge 22. juli. Ved skolestart fikk lærerne i oppdrag av skolemyndighetene å gjenreise elevenes opplevelse av trygghet. Det ble ...

Transition to school may be experienced as a critical event for both children and their families. Within an ecological framework of transition, the scope of the concept of school readiness in recent years has decentered from the child to the environment, including the readiness of (pre)school education to develop core skills in children. This study aims to understand the extent to which preschool ...

<p><i>Purpose - </i>The purpose of this study is to assess whether violence exposure is associated with emotional/conduct problems, when adjusting for confounders/covariates and controlling for comorbidity, and to investigate interactions between violence exposure and sex and/or age. <p><i>Methods - </i>This cross-sectional study evaluated a community-based sample of 669 in-school 11–15-year-olds. ...

Youth Self Report (YSR) er et av spørreskjemaene som inngår i Achenbach´s System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), i tillegg til Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) og Teacher´s Report Form (TRF). YSR måler kompetanse, adaptiv fungering og atferdsmessige vanskeområder for aldersgruppen 11–18 år. YSR opererer med en total skår, mål på internaliserende og eksternaliserende atferd, samt åtte ulike ...