@TexasSteveHicks: Ideas, findings, people

Family Minds is a new brief and practical psycho-educational intervention for foster parents that is based on attachment theory and is designed to help parents understand the emotional needs that form the basis of their child’s behavior. In a recent study, Tina Adkins and colleagues found preliminary evidence that Family… read more 

Telling patients that they have only months to live can be distressing for the healthcare provider, the patient and the patient’s family. But in a recently published article of Palliative and Supportive Care, Jennifer Currin-McCulloch and Barbara Jones suggest that, when framed in the proper context, hope can thrive in… read more 

For decades, the child welfare system has worked on the assumption that legal permanency (through adoption, reunification or kinship care) was enough to ensure that children in foster care have a successfully transition to adulthood. A new study by Upbring and the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing calls… read more