Editorial : International perspectives on young people''s transitions from care to adulthood Mike Stein, Harriet Ward, Mark Courtney 2409-2411 Constructing a global understanding of the social ecology of leaving out of home care John Pinkerton 2412-2416 The contribution of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understanding and promoting the interests of young people making the transition from care to adulthood Emily R. Munro et al. 2417-2423 Instruments for research on transition: Applied methods and approaches for exploring the transition of young care leavers to adulthood Annemiek T. Harder, Stefan Kongeter, Maren Zeller, Erik J. Knorth, Jana Knot-Dickscheit 2431-2441 Receipt of help acquiring life skills and predictors of help receipt among current and former foster youth Mark E. Courtney, JoAnn Lee, Alfred Perez 2442-2451 