Interventions to improve supervised contact visits between children in out of home care and their parents: a systematic review

Abstract

Although the importance of contact between children in care and their parents, when safe, is accepted, there is limited research about supervised face-to-face contact. There is no literature that has systematically critiqued how supervised contact can be best delivered. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the evidence for interventions aimed at improving the quality of contact visits between parents and their children who are in out-of-home care. Twelve studies were included in this review. Each study was graded and assigned scores according to the presence or absence of each of seven criteria. The studies demonstrated key similarities in the types of interventions provided, al..