In this roundup of new research on mentalization-based therapy, discover how psychoanalytic interventions can mitigate the effects of trauma and help build secure attachment in childhood and adulthood. Mothering From… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Throughout our Texas Youth Permanency Study (TYPS), we’ve explored relationships that are important to young people living in foster care. Our research shows how relationships with birth families and relatives… Read more »
Normalcy in child welfare means the ability for children and teens to live as normal of a life as possible while in foster care. Normalcy can be seen as access… Read more »
Last fall, our team at the Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative (TFYHI) partnered with four child-placing agencies in Texas. Each agency works directly with youth in foster care in different… Read more »
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 »
By Alix Mammina, Communications Specialist at the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing At Girasol Texas, we’re building a network of trauma-informed professionals to support the health and wellbeing… Read more »
During the 30th Annual Texas School Social Work Conference, the Texas School Social Work Network (TSSWN) sent out a survey to all conference participants to explore the impact of the… Read more »