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Overview

Mark E. Courtney is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the social sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields, including safety research, sociology and political science, general health professions, clinical psychology, and demography.

Their research topics center on child welfare and adoption, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, homelessness and social issues, child abuse and trauma, family dynamics and relationships, healthcare innovation and challenges, and adolescent and pediatric healthcare.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Courtney include Nathanael J. Okpych, Sunggeun Park, Michael Pergamit, Justin S. Harty, and Keunhye Park.

Publication venues where Courtney's work often appears include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Social Service Review
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Adolescent Health

Recent papers reflect Courtney's sustained focus on youth transitioning out of foster care and their well-being. These include:

  • "Mental Health Management Among Older Youth in Foster Care: Service Utilization and Preparedness," 2020, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • "The roles of Campus-Support Programs (CSPs) and Education and Training Vouchers (ETVs) on college persistence for youth with foster care histories," 2020, Children and Youth Services Review
  • "Relationships That Persist and Protect: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Early-Adult Outcomes among Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care," 2023, Social Service Review
  • "Supporting youth transitioning from state care into adulthood in Illinois and Catalonia: Lessons from a cross-national comparison," 2020, Children and Youth Services Review
  • "Predictors of foster youths' participation in their transitional independent living plan (TILP) development: Calling for collaborative case plan decision-making processes," 2020, Children and Youth Services Review

Best Publications

  • Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Outcomes at Ages 23 and 24

    Mark E. Courtney;Amy Dworsky;JoAnn S. Lee;Melissa Raap

  • Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission

    Harry Specht;Mark E. Courtney

  • Foster youth transitions to adulthood: A longitudinal view of youth leaving care.

    Mark E. Courtney;Irving Piliavin;Andrew Grogan-Kaylor;Ande Nesmith

  • Early outcomes for young adults transitioning from out-of-home care in the USA

    Mark E. Courtney;Amy Dworsky

  • Vulnerable Populations and the Transition to Adulthood

    D. Wayne Osgood;E. Michael Foster;Mark E. Courtney

  • Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Conditions of Youth Preparing to Leave State Care in Illinois

    Mark E. Courtney;Sherri Terao;Noel Bost

  • Homelessness During the Transition From Foster Care to Adulthood

    Amy Dworsky;Laura Napolitano;Mark Courtney

  • Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: outcomes at age 19

    Mark E. Courtney;Amy Lynn Dworsky;Gretchen Ruth;Thomas E. Keller

  • Factors Associated with the Reunification of Foster Children with Their Families

    Mark E. Courtney

  • Race and Child Welfare Services: Past Research and Future Directions.

    Mark E. Courtney;Richard P. Barth;J. D. Berrick;D. Brooks

  • The risk of teenage pregnancy among transitioning foster youth: Implications for extending state care beyond age 18

    Amy Dworsky;Mark E. Courtney

  • Approaching the Transition to Adulthood: Distinctive Profiles of Adolescents Aging out of the Child Welfare System

    Thomas E. Keller;Gretchen Ruth Cusick;Mark E. Courtney

  • Pathways of Older Adolescents out of Foster Care: Implications for Independent Living Services

    Mark E. Courtney;Richard P. Barth

  • Adolescent neglect, juvenile delinquency and the risk of recidivism.

    Joseph P. Ryan;Abigail B. Williams;Mark E. Courtney

  • Reentry to Foster Care of Children Returned to Their Families

    Mark E. Courtney

  • Employment outcomes of former foster youth as young adults: The importance of human, personal, and social capital

    Jennifer L. Hook;Mark E. Courtney

  • Trauma exposure and PTSD among older adolescents in foster care

    Amy M. Salazar;Thomas E. Keller;L. Kris Gowen;Mark E. Courtney

  • Comparing the timing of exits from substitute care

    Mark E. Courtney;Yin-Ling Irene Wong

  • Executive Summary: Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: outcomes at Age 21

    Mark E. Courtney;Amy Lynn Dworsky;Gretchen Ruth Cusick;Judy Havlicek

  • Homelessness and the transition from foster care to adulthood.

    Amy Dworsky;Mark E Courtney

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Barth
Richard P. Barth University of Maryland, Baltimore
John S. Lyons
John S. Lyons University of Kentucky
Carolyn A. McCarty
Carolyn A. McCarty Seattle Children's Hospital
Jane M. Simoni
Jane M. Simoni University of Washington
Laura P. Richardson
Laura P. Richardson University of Washington
Paula S. Nurius
Paula S. Nurius University of Washington
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Irving Hwang
Irving Hwang Harvard University
Deborah K. Padgett
Deborah K. Padgett New York University
D. Wayne Osgood
D. Wayne Osgood Pennsylvania State University

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