Journal of Children's Services: Volume 7 Issue 4

Adaptation happens: a qualitative case study of implementation of The Incredible Years evidence‐based parent training programme in a residential substance abuse treatment programme

Gregory A. Aarons, Elizabeth A. Miller, Amy E. Green, Jennifer A. Perrott, Richard Bradway

Evidence‐based practices (EBPs) are increasingly being implemented in real‐world settings. While intervention effectiveness is dependent on fidelity, interventions are often…

Urban youth violence prevention: effectiveness of a scaled‐up practice‐to‐research programme

Lisa M. Chauveron, Amanda C. Thompkins, Ofer Harel

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention Project (VPP) – a 12‐session programme consisting of explicit…

Migration patterns of children exposed to sexual exploitation in selected zones of Ethiopia

Ayalew Gebre

This study attempts to identify the rural‐urban migration patterns of children, young girls in particular, exposed to commercial sexual exploitation in urban and semi‐urban…

The benefits of an adolescent psychiatric day service: the Harrow experience – a pilot study

Elizabeth Tovey, Juan Perez‐Olaizola, Paul Annecke, Jovanka Tolmac, Matthew Hodes

The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics of severely psychiatrically impaired adolescents requiring day hospital management and the effectiveness of the…

Challenges recruiting families with children at risk of anti‐social behaviour into intervention trials: lessons from the Helping Children Achieve (HCA) study

Milena Stateva, Jacqueline Minton, Celia Beckett, Moira Doolan, Tamsin Ford, Angeliki Kallitsoglou, Stephen Scott

The Helping Children Achieve study is a randomised controlled trial designed to test the effectiveness of parenting interventions for children at risk of anti‐social behaviour…

Editorial

Nick Axford