Research & Evaluation
Foster Care Re-Entry Study
Title IV-E Curriculum Module
Selected References
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Berrick et al., J. D., Brodowski, M. L., Frame et al., L., & Goldberg, S. (1997). Factors Associated with Family Reunifcation Outcomes: Understanding Reentry to Care for Infants. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.
Courtney, M. (1995). Reentry to foster care of children returned to their families. Social Service Review, June 1995, 226-241.
Courtney, M. (1996). Children in out-of-home care in Wisconsin: 1988 through 1994. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Courtney, M., Piliavin, I., & Wright, B.R.E. (1997). Transitions from and returns to out-of-home care. Social Service Review, December 1997, 652-667.
Davis et al., I. P., English, D. J., & Landsverk, J. A. (1993). Going Home-And Returning to Care: A Study of Foster Care Reunification. San Diego: San Diego State University.
Festinger, T. (1994). Returning to Care: Discharge and Reentry in Foster Care. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America.
Festinger, T. (1996). Going home and returning to foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 18(4/5), 383-402.
Frame, L., Berrick, J.D., & Brodowski, M.L. (2000). Understanding reentry to out-of-home care for reunified infants. Child Welfare, 79(4), 339-369.
Fraser, M.W., Walton, E., Lweis, R.E., Pecora, P.J., & Walton, W.K. (1996). An experiment in family reunification: correlates of outcomes at one-year follow-up. Children and Youth Services Review, 18 (4/5), 335-361.
Hess et al., P., Folaron, G., Jefferson, A., & Kinnear, R. (1991). The Impact of Caseload Size and Caseworker and Supervisor Turnover on Foster Care Reentry. Indianapolis: University of Indiana School of Social Work.
Hess et al., P., Folaron, G., & Jefferson, A. B. (1992). Effectiveness of Family Reunification Services: An Innovative Evaluative Model. Social Work, 37(4), 304-311.
Jones, D.P.H. (1999). Intervention (Editorial). Child Abuse and Neglect, 23(12), 1341-1344.
Jones, L. (1998). The social and family correlates of successful reunification of children in foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 20(4), 305-323.
Lewis, R. E., Walton, E., & Fraser, M. W. (1995). Examining Family Reunification Services: A Process Analysis of a Successful Experiment. Research on Social Work Practice, 5(3), pp. 259-282.
Maluccio, A. N., Fein, E., & Davis et al., I. P. (1994). Family Reunification: Research Findings, Issues, and Directions. Child Welfare, 73(5), pp. 489-504.
Maluccio, A.N. (1999). Foster care and family reunification. In P.A. Curtis & G. Dale & J.C. Kendall (Eds.). The Foster Care Crisis: Translating Research into Policy and Practice (pp. 211-224). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Maluccio, A.N. , Ainsworth, R. & Thoburn, J. (2000). Child welfare outcome research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America.
Newman, D.L. Kalfus, G.R. Matthews, D.L., & Garczynski, J. (1995). Reliability and validity of a child welfare decision-making system. New York: New York Medical College, Valhalla.
Terling, T. (1999). The efficacy of family reunification practices: Reentry rates and correlates of reentry for abused and neglected children returned with their families. Child Abuse and Neglect, 23(12), 1359-1370.
Tomlinson, B. (n.d.). A selective review of family reunification services research. A system of care for children’s mental health: Expanding the research base: 10th annual research conference proceedings. Clagary, AB: The University of Calgary.
Rzepnicki, T. L., Schuerman, J.R., & Johnson, P.R. (1997). Facing uncertainty: Reuniting high-risk families. In J.D. Berrick & J.P. Barth & N. Gilbert (Eds.) Child Welfare Research Review (Vol. 2, pp. 229-251). New York City: Columbia University Press.
Wells, K., & Guo, S. (1999). Reunification and reentry of foster children. Children and Youth Services Review, 21(4), 273-294.
Wulczyn, F. (2000). Foster care dynamics 1983-1998 (Alabama, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin). Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago.