Latest from the Journal of Children's Services

The developers of The Incredible Years Dinosaur curriculum are arguing for more research to establish how programs for dealing with one set of developmental problems can be tailored to the needs of children suffering from several disorders at the same time – without compromising the core elements.
 
Writing in the Journal of Children’s Services, Carolyn Webster-Stratton, creator of The Incredible Year, points out that children referred to mental health clinics with conduct problems frequently have other problems, such as attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, learning and language delays and autism spectrum disorders.
 
Also this quarter, Ian Barron and Keith Topping, of the University of Dundee, review the evidence on the effectiveness of sexual abuse prevention, drawing on 22 studies mainly from the UK and US, and a team from Huddersfield and Leeds Metropolitan Universities analyses the views of front-line social workers on their post-qualifying training and their current work practices in the new children’s services.
 
Bill Jordan, from the University of Plymouth, calls for a shift away from the “contracts culture” that dominates UK public policy, and a team led by M. Elena Garralda, of Imperial College London, charts the clinical outcomes in a child psychiatry inpatient unit.