Books & eBooks
Foster care and best interests of the child: Integrating research, policy, and practice
Abusive policies: How the American child welfare system lost its way
Raising government children: A history of foster care and the American welfare state
Creating compassionate foster care: Lessons of hope from children and families in crisis
Life after foster care: Improving outcomes for former foster youth
A generation removed: The fostering and adoption of indigenous children in the postwar world
When the welfare people come: Race and class in the US child protection system
Out of harm's way: Creating an effective child welfare system
The neglected transition: Building a relational home for children entering foster care
Fall or fly: The strangely hopeful story of foster care and adoption in Appalachia
Seven core issues in adoption and permanency
Mental health services for vulnerable children and young people
Fostering on the farm: Child placement in the rural Midwest
Helping foster children in school: A guide for foster parents, social workers and teachers
Abandoned: America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection
Children living in transition: Helping homeless and foster care children and families
Multidisciplinary Search Tools
- Child Welfare Information Gateway: TopicsThis tool from the Children's Bureau provides easy-to-navigate, topical organization of a wealth of resources and information, including government reports, scholarly publications, case studies, and more.
- EBSCO Discovery Service This link opens in a new windowThis is the giant search box on the Library's home page for a reason: EDS searches across the majority of our holdings through one search. Locate scholarly journal articles, reports, books and ebooks, news and magazine articles, and more.
Pro tip: Narrow your search results by expanding the Filter by Subject tool on the left and selecting Show More to create a custom list of subjects found within your search results. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Searching in Google Scholar provides a broad range of results in a variety of formats and disciplines. When you're on campus or logged in with Duo, Google Scholar will provide links to sources available through the IU Kokomo Library.
Pro tip: Use the "Cited by" tool underneath any search result to locate relevant, more recently published sources on the same topic. This is also a helpful way to gauge how widely read (and therefore influential) a piece of scholarship is in a particular field. - IUCAT This link opens in a new windowIUCAT is a great starting point to locate books, ebooks, streaming videos, and government reports about the foster care system.
Pro tip: Use broad search terms and phrases to find the best results. Here are some examples: "foster care", "foster parents", "foster children", "foster home care", and "child welfare". - WorldCat This link opens in a new windowWhen you want to do the broadest search possible, WorldCat is the way to go. Filter your results to Books or Articles on the left. To access or request the source, click on the View Access Options button.
Pro tip: Click on the icon next to the search bar to use Advanced Search.
Recommended Search Strategies
- Add a search booster to your search phrases to zoom in on specific aspects of your topic
- Watch this brief video to learn more about search boosters
- Example: "foster care" AND "academic achievement" AND demographics
- Example: "foster care" AND "cognitive behavioral therapy" AND impact
- Make the most out of a good source
- Use EDS, Google Scholar, and/or BrowZine (Find an E-Journal) to locate sources that are cited in your source
- Search for your source in Google Scholar and use the Cited By tool to find other sources that have cited this one
- Identify new and relevant terminology to inform future searching
- If full-text isn't immediately available, request it via interlibrary loan
- For journal articles:
- Click on the red Look For It button to double-check availability and request an article
- If there's no Look For It button:
- Copy and paste the article title into EDS
- Look for the journal title, volume, and issue in BrowZine (Find an E-Journal)
- Create a new request from scratch in Tipasa
- For books and ebooks:
- Learn more about interlibrary loan here or email iukloan@iuk.edu with your questions
- For journal articles:
