Children's right to participation in residential care: A staff-based study in Portugal.

Background: Youth in residential care (RC) reveal high-risk trajectories, which require upholding their rights and providing them with opportunities to participate.

Objective: We aimed to identify staff profiles focused on their perceptions of participation and the association with sociodemographic variables.

Participants And Setting: This study included quantitative analysis of qualitative data collected from 87 professionals in the RC (M = 38.

Out of sight is not out of mind: Associations between perceived maternal attachment and self-representations of youth in residential care moderated by sex and age.

The present study aimed to explore the associations between perceived maternal attachment and self-representations of youth in residential care (RC), considering the potential moderator role of youth's sex and age and the potential concurrent effect of frequency and type of family visits and length of time in RC. To this end, a sample of 659 youth aged 11-18 ( = 15.65, = 1.

What should we talk about? Contributions from Freirean Thematic Investigation in health education with adolescents.

Adolescence is an essential stage of life for developing actions related to health promotion, especially in health education (HE). Public policies advocate for the expansion of participative technologies in this field, as well as different theoretical and methodological perspectives subsidize these. Among these, Paulo Freire's reference guide is practiced in Brazil and around the world.

Is it the Child's Fault? Maternal Attributions in Child Abuse and Neglect.

Background: Among the parental cognitions explaining maladaptive parenting, attributions about a child’s misbehavior seem important. However, there is little research on neglectful parents, and the different patterns of parental attributions associated with child abuse and child neglect are still underexplained. The current study examines parental attributions associated with child abuse and child neglect.

The Achieved Capabilities Questionnaire for Community Mental Health (ACQ-CMH): A consumer-based measure for the evaluation of community mental health interventions.

The capabilities approach offers a multidimensional, ecological, and agent-centered framework that may inspire models of intervention and evaluation. A growing number of measures grounded on the capabilities approach for outcome measurement are appearing. Regarding community mental health, new consumer-valued measures-constructed in collaboration with consumers-are here considered crucial for a transformative shift.