Residential care for youth in the child welfare system: Stop-gap option or not?

Residential Treatment for Children and Youth

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-65

  James, Sigrid S ^a,b   Zhang, Jin Jin ^b   Landsverk, John ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

child welfare; length of stay in care; negative binomial regression; out of home care; residential care; residential treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863155582     PISSN: 0886571X     EISSN: 15410358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2012.643678     Document Type: Article

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