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Mashup Score: 0Caring for Children in Foster or Kinship Care - 1 year(s) ago
Family physicians are likely to encounter patients who are involved in the foster or kinship care system. Kinship care is the care of a child by a relative or close family friend that is mediated by the child welfare system. The foster care system in the United States serves approximately 675,000 children annually.1 Of those placed in foster or kinship care, 59% will spend at least one year in…
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Mashup Score: 0Login • Instagram - 2 year(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 4Kids in Foster Care Get Psychotropics at 'Alarming Rates' - 2 year(s) ago
Misdiagnosis, overprescription, and frequent transitions to new doctors might be contributing factors, researchers report.
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Mashup Score: 0Kids in Foster Care Get Psychotropics at 'Alarming Rates' - 2 year(s) ago
Misdiagnosis, overprescription, and frequent transitions to new doctors might be contributing factors, researchers report.
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Mashup Score: 0Kids in foster care get psychotropic meds at ‘alarming’ rates - 2 year(s) ago
Different rates of mental health disorders in this population do not fully explain the trend, a researcher said.
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This session we are discussing complex PTSD, with the focus on Dr. Rachel Hiller’s JCPP open access paper ‘A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care’
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Mashup Score: 0ZERO TO THREE’s Safe Babies Court Team™ Approach Helps Babies and Toddlers during National Foster Care Awareness Month and All Year Round - 3 year(s) ago
Every six minutes an infant or toddler is removed from home due to alleged abuse or neglect. The children are then placed in foster care, which may be harmful to their development due to separation from the world they know, and potential longevity in the system.
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Mashup Score: 2Somebody’s Sunshine - 3 year(s) ago
In this narrative medicine essay a geriatrics fellow describes the experience of preparing for and meeting her foster son and discusses her feelings of uncertainties that (mostly) melt away when sharing her new child’s photo with a colleague the day after bringing him home.
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Mashup Score: 0Mortality Among Children in the US Foster Care System, 2003-2016 - 4 year(s) ago
This cross-sectional analysis uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System to investigate mortality rates among children in the US foster care system compared with those of the general population.
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Mashup Score: 7Antipsychotic Use Among Youth in Foster Care Enrolled in a Specialized Managed Care Organization Intervention - 4 year(s) ago
Little is known about whether interventions implemented by specialized Medicaid managed care organizations (MMCOs) contributed to recent stabilization of antipsychotic prescribing to youths in foster care. This study examined a multimodal antipsychotic intervention implemented by a specialized MMCO for youths in foster care with routine mental health screening, health passports, elective…
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