Parental perspective: Factors that played a role in facilitating or impeding the parents' understanding of their child's developmental diagnostic assessment.

Background: Full parental understanding of a child's diagnosis of a developmental disability is critical to be able to ensure the best health outcome for their child. Yet factors that parents perceived as influencing their comprehension during the final diagnostic meeting have not been well identified.

Method: This study used a qualitative interpretive description approach.

The development of child protection supervisors in Northern British Columbia.

This research involved three different groups of employees in a provincial government organization responsible for the delivery of child welfare services throughout northern British Columbia. The research sought to understand the skills that are most important to supervision, how the skills can be developed, and the barriers that might impede this development.

Child protection decision making: a factorial analysis using case vignettes.

This study explored decision making by child protection social workers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. A factorial survey method was used in which case vignettes were constructed by randomly assigning a number of key characteristics associated with decision making in child protection. Child protection social workers (n = 118) assessed case vignettes (n = 327) for risk, service provision, and importance of client contact.

Kinship care in northern British Columbia.

An exploratory case study design using three sources of data-interviews with kinship caregivers, interviews with social workers, and file reviews-was used to identify the needs of kinship caregivers in northern British Columbia. The research found that kinship caregivers identified many needs that must be addressed if kinship caregiving is to be a viable and sustainable option for children in need of care.