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- Andersson, Gunvor
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Family relations, adjustment and wellbeing in a longitudinal study of children in care
- 2005
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley. - 1356-7500. ; 10:1, s. 43-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article reports on a longitudinal study of children placed in a children's home during the first two years of the 1980s. The 26 children placed when younger than 4 years of age and staying more than 4 weeks were followed up 3 and 9 months after leaving the children's home and 5, 10, 15 and 20 years later. The children's family relations, including early attachments and later parental relationships and the perception of who is their family, have been one of the predominant themes in the recurrent studies. None of them had lived with both parents after leaving the children's home and 20 of them had been in foster care for periods or permanently. At the time of the last study the children were young adults, aged 20–25. They are categorized in three rather distinct categories, one for those with a 'good' and one for those with a 'moderate' social adjustment and well-being and one for those with a 'bad' social adjustment and well-being insofar as involvement with drugs, criminal behaviour and legal sanctions are concerned. Their contacts and relationships with birth parents and foster parents and the perception of who is their family are analysed by use of attachment theory and developmental psychopathology.
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- Cater [Källström Cater], Åsa, 1971-, et al.
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Descriptions of fathers’ care by children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) : relative neglect and children’s needs
- 2014
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 19:2, s. 185-193
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The situation of children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) raises certain issues related to child neglect. Little is known about how children exposed to IPV perceive and describe their living conditions. This paper addresses this lack by analysing aspects of fathers’ care in descriptions given by children whose fathers have subjected the mothers to IPV. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with 10 children aged 8–12 years. Three themes constitute the results. First, the fathers are not described by the children as engaged and responsible care providers. Second, in their general descriptions of how mothers and fathers fill complementary roles for the child, parenthood seems to mean in practice that the mother is the provider of (almost) everything the child may need. Third, the mere absence of violence seems to be judged ‘good-enough’ fathering in the children’s descriptions. Altogether, this leads to the conclusion that being exposed to IPV and believing that mothers are responsible for their welfare precludes children from viewing their fathers as responsible for their well-being. The limited utility for child welfare practice of a ‘child-based’ definition of neglect in cases of IPV is discussed, and alternatives are suggested.
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- Egelund, Tine, et al.
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Prevalence of mental health problems among children placed in out of home care in Denmark
- 2009
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 14:2, s. 156-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper concerns the prevalence of mental health problems among children in family foster and residential care within a Danish context. All children, born in Denmark in 1995, who are or formerly have been placed in out-of-home care (n= 1072), are compared with a group of vulnerable children of the same age, subjected to child protection interventions but living at home (n= 1457, referred to as the ‘in home care children’), and to all contemporaries who are not child protection clients (n= 71 321, referred to as the ‘non-welfare children’). Prevalence data are established on the basis of national administrative register data, including data on psychiatric diagnoses of the children, and on survey data scoring children in out-of-home care, in home care children, and non-welfare children by means of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Results show that 20% of children in out-of-home care have at least one psychiatric diagnosis compared to 3% of the non-welfare children. Almost half of the children in care (48%) are, furthermore, scored within the abnormal range of SDQ, compared to 5% of the non-welfare children.
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- Glad, Johan, 1973-, et al.
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Social work practitioners' experience of the clinical utility of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory
- 2012
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 17:1, s. 23-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Clinical utility of an assessment instrument can provide importantinformation about the potential value of that instrument when used inpractice. The aim of this study was to describe social work practitioners’experiences of the clinical utility of a Swedish version of theHome Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME)Inventory. Because knowledge of clinical utility in this area is scarce,a qualitative method based on semi-structured interviews was used togain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. Data were collectedthrough 16 interviews and then analysed by qualitative manifestcontent analysis.The analysis yielded five categories: improves qualityof child protection investigations, supports practitioners, HOME hasdrawbacks and difficulties, certain issues are important for futureapplications and basic conditions are crucial. The findings supportedthe clinical utility of the HOME Inventory though some critical issueshave to be addressed, especially concerning the category basic conditionsare crucial. A thorough education, the possibility to practiceactivities related to the administration of the method and supportfrom management were found to be essential. Replication and furtherstudies are needed in the Swedish context to confirm the applicabilityof the HOME Inventory.
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- Hedin, Lena, 1951-
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A sense of belonging in a changeable everyday life : a follow-up study of young people in kinship, network, and traditional foster families
- 2014
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 19:2, s. 165-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This in-depth follow-up study of 15 foster youth shows the importance of an ‘open foster family’, open to letting the foster youth into the family life and to cooperating with the adolescent's birth family. Previous findings about the importance of negotiations, mutual rituals, and having fun together in foster families for the creation of social bonds and belonging are strengthened in the follow-up interview. A lack of these mutual practices is observed prior to disruptions. Most adolescents still living with the same foster family feel a sense of belonging to both their foster and birth families, especially when both families cooperate. This is most evident in kinship families. Over time, adolescents in traditional foster families have also strengthened their social bonds to the foster family, which makes the difference to youth in network foster families less pronounced than in the previous study. Despite life changes, above all changing schools and peers, most adolescents reveal personal agency by still coping with their situation. However, therapeutic support is now more common than 1 year ago, for girls in particular. Methods used are interviews, network maps and text responses (‘beepers’).
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- Hedin, Lena, et al.
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Why one goes to school : what school means to young people entering foster care
- 2011
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 16:1, s. 43-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this interpretative childhood study of 17 boys and girls 13 – 16 years old placed in foster families, the experiences and attitudes towards school are explored. The importance of school as an arena for both learning and socialization is emphasized. Data were collected through interviews, network maps, and text answers via mobile phone (‘beepers’). Their educational improvement was based on their understanding of scholastic achievement as meaningful for their future, stability in daily routines, and the involvement and support of family, peers, and teachers. Access to peers at school is important, and group activities facilitate this. Because of their background, foster youth can also be exposed to bullying from peers. Both learning and socialization at school affect their self-esteem.
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- Hultman, Elin, et al.
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Vulnerable children's health as described in investigations of reported children
- 2013
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 18:2, s. 117-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores whether the social services weigh in health aspects, and what these may be, when investigating reported childrens life situation. Information about physical and psychological health aspects for 259 children in 272 investigations was included. Overall, information about childrens health was limited. Problematic emotions were the most commonly reported health aspect in the investigations, whereas suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviour and gastrointestinal and renal diseases were mentioned least of all. A cluster analysis revealed that the low level of health information group included the largest sample of data and consisted of investigations with minimal information about childrens health. The three other cluster groups, Neurological diseases and psychosomatic symptoms, Emotional health and Physical and psychological health and destructive behaviour, consisted of investigations conducted mostly according to the model called Childrens Needs In Focus (BBIC, in Swedish, Barns Behov i Centrum). Although these investigations also produced limited information, they provided more than those assessed as having a low level of information about health aspects. The conclusion is that it is necessary to increase information about health aspects in investigations if social welfare systems are to be able to fulfil their ambition of supporting vulnerable childrens need of health care.
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- Hydén, Margareta, et al.
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Applying Narrative Analysis to the Process of Confirming or Disregarding Cases of Suspected Sexual Abuse
- 2005
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Ingår i: Child & Family Work. - : Wiley. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 10:1, s. 57-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses discourse about sexual abuse at a detention home for young women. At the centre of attention is staff members' struggle with the process of confirming or disregarding cases of alleged sexual abuse. The determining factor for establishing an act as sexual abuse was whether or not the act involved a person who was defined as a victim. A core issue in the process was an evaluation of the credibility of the alleged abused girl and the degree of consent. The unintended result was that many of the girls' narratives were never confirmed. The article argues that there is no objective 'given' regarding the definition of sexual abuse. To be involved in the process of understanding and establishing an act as sexual abuse means being involved in a process of social definition. To be able to handle such involvement constitutes a fundamental professional issue in social work. Adopting a narrative approach to the process of confirming or disregarding cases of suspected sexual abuse shifts the focus from developing categories of social problems and work on the basis of them to developing ways of listening to young people and allowing their narratives to provide a point of departure.
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- Höjer, Ingrid, 1953, et al.
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Young people leaving care in Sweden
- 2010
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : Wiley. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 15:1, s. 118-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transition from a placement in care to an independent life can be a problematic phase for young people. In Sweden, special care-leaving services are almost non-existent. What then happens to young people when they leave a placement in out-of-home care? This paper draws on the results of a study in which 16 young care leavers between the ages of 18 and 22 years were interviewed. Telephone interviews were also performed with the young care leavers' parents, social workers, foster carers and institutional staff. The aim of the study was to investigate how young care leavers perceive the transition from care to an independent life. The Swedish welfare model, the prolonged transition to adulthood and the family-oriented welfare discourse have been used as analytical perspectives. The results show that young care leavers have a pronounced need for social, emotional, practical and financial support. Whilst such support is occasionally provided by foster carers and residential staff, it is seldom given by social services or biological parents. This group is at risk of facing severe problems in the transitional phase from care to independent life, a fact that is not acknowledged by the Swedish welfare system.
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