Ball, B., Hoefer, S., Faulkner, M., Requenes, A., Brooks, T., Munoz, G., Pacheco, E., Poland, C., Salmeron, C., & Zelaya, A. (2022). Innovation in sexuality and relationship education in child… Read more »

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Clinician’s Corner 2022 | VOICES: Holding Space for Difficult Conversations

Read the 2022 Clinician’s Corner articles on Medium! Welcome to the fourth installment of Clinician’s Corner! We developed this semiannual digest as a way to connect social work research to… Read more »
Welcome to Monica Romo, our new Senior Program Coordinator!

We recently caught up with Monica Romo, one of our newest TXICFW team members, to learn more about her! Monica is the new Girasol Senior Program Coordinator. We are so… Read more »
Archard, P.J., Blackwell, J., Moore, I., Briggs Deardon, L., Adkins, T., O’Reilly, M. (2022) Providing specialist clinical support for adoptive parents and adoption professionals. Mental Health Practice 25(5).
Archard, P.J., Blackwell, J., Moore, I., Briggs Deardon, L., Adkins, T., O’Reilly, M. (2022) Providing specialist clinical support for adoptive parents and adoption professionals. Mental Health Practice 25(5). doi: 10.7748/mhp.2022.e163
Madden, E. E., Faulkner, M., & Aguiniga, D. M. (2022). Adoption competency in a Post–Roe v. Wade reality. Journal of Social Work Education, 58(3), 427–430. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2022.2091390
Madden, E. E., Faulkner, M., & Aguiniga, D. M. (2022). Adoption competency in a Post–Roe v. Wade reality. Journal of Social Work Education, 58(3), 427–430. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2022.2091390
How to Engage Parents, Caregivers, and Practitioners in Reunification

The child welfare system often struggles to encourage collaboration across organizations and within families. When birth families, foster caregivers, and the practitioners working on these cases engage with each other,… Read more »
Latest Research on Reunification

Check out these short research summaries on reunification and kinship care from other experts in the field and learn their implications for practice! The road to reunification: Family- and state… Read more »
Spring Updates from the Child Welfare Education Collaboration

The Child Welfare Education Collaboration program is a partnership between the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services… Read more »
Reisz, S., Aviles, A., & Adkins, T., (under review). Foster parents’ attachment, trauma histories, and current parenting stress. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Reisz, S., Aviles, A., & Adkins, T., (under review). Foster parents’ attachment, trauma histories, and current parenting stress. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Latest Research on Violence Prevention

Check out these short research summaries on violence prevention from other experts in the field and learn their implications for practice! Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic (2020)… Read more »