An Overview of Issues and Concerns of Institutionalized Adolescents in India
Keywords:
Concerns of Institutionalized, childhood and adulthoodAbstract
This article reviews and organizes the recent literature on the needs and problems of institutionalized adolescents and explores the social work interventions in children's homes to see if it is possible to identify effective intervention strategies to resolve their problems. The present research paper made a review-based study. It was made to review extensively the references on psychosocial problems of institutionalized children. This paper presents the theoretical aspect of adolescents as well as covers recent studies from 2004 to 2017 and identifies the issues to overcome the gaps in existing studies.
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