Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  The effect of psychosocial support on sexually abused children with disability

  • Author: Sabrina Mahmood, Shamim Ferdous

• Promoting resilience in ‘sex worker’ children: The role of residential childcare institutions in Bangladesh

  • Author: Tuhinul Islam

• Risk of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children living in foster care and institutionalised settings

  • Author: Deepak Gupta, Neha Gupta

• Child care institutions as quality family, surrogate (alternative) care services in Sri Lanka

  • Author: Varathagowry Vasudevan

• Improving national care standards in South Asia

  • Author: Thatparan Jeganathan

• International Perspective

  A comparison of the wellbeing of orphans and abandoned children ages 6–12 in institutional and community-based care settings in 5 less wealthy nations

  • Author: Kathryn Whetten, Jan Ostermann, Rachel A. Whetten, Brian W. Pence, Karen O'Donnell, Lynne C. Messer, Nathan M. Thielman

• Good Practices and Models of Alternative Care

  “Udayan Ghars (Sunshine Homes):” A comprehensive psycho-social programme for institutionalised children in their journey to recovery

  • Author: Kiran Modi, Monisha Nayar-Akhtar, Deepak Gupta, Sohini Karmakar

• REVIEW ARTICLE

  Portrayal of orphans in mainstream hindi films

  • Author: Namarta Joshi

• The 35-year war: our lost children a glimpse beyond the institutionalized setting in Afghanistan

  • Author: Sima Samar, Ksera Dyette

• Culture and trauma: Working in a global context on issues facing girls and women in Pakistan

  • Author: Rukshana Chaudhry

• Care and mental health of children in institutionalised care republic of the Maldives

  • Author: Mariyam Nisha

• South asian report on the child- friendliness of governments regional

  • Author: Turid Heiberg, Gustav Månsson, Enakshi Ganguly Thukral, Maria Rosaria Centrone, Rajan Burlakoti

• Moving forward: Implementing the ‘Guidelines for the alternative care of children’ international

  • Author: N. Cantwell, J. Davidson, S. Elsley, I. Milligan, N. Quinn

• BOOK REVIEW

  Orphan Care: A comparative view

• EDITORIAL

  Introducing the New Journal: Note from the Editor-in-Chief

• Interview

  Ron Pouwels, Regional Adviser on Child Protection UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia

  • Author: Luis Aguilar Esponda