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- Blomberg, Staffan, et al.
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Barn och socialt arbete : Socialhögskolans årsbok 2019
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Årsboken ger en inblick i delar av den forskning kring socialt arbete med barn som sker vid Socialhögskolan. Den ger också en kort introduktion till verksamheten vid Socialhögskolan.
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- Linderot, Sofia
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Att placera eller inte placera i släktinghem, det är frågan : En studie kring familjehemsplaceringar - lagstiftning, attityder och handläggning inom socialtjänsten
- 2006
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the licentiate thesis my starting point is the Social Service Act and specifically, chapter 6, paragraph 5 which directs one to primarily consider the suitability of placing a child with a relative or a person known to the family. The objective of the thesis is to examine how the topic concerning placement with relatives arose and how the regulation reflects on child care within social work. An additional objective is to further examine the social workers attitude towards placement with relatives. Interviews, mainly with social workers and a few key persons, were carried out and, in addition, studies of case files from four towns were made.The regulation regarding the primary consideration of placement with relatives or known persons originates from a Parliament initiative in 1998. The Congress Parties demanded that a regulation should be introduced and referred to claims from the public and from International research findings that demonstrated the advantages from the child's perspective of placement with relatives.Of the placements initiated during the year 2003, 15% of the placements of the children and youngsters were with relatives. In 2004 this figure was reduced to 14% including also placements with persons known to the child's family. According to the statistics there has been no significant increase in the number of children that have been placed with relatives between the years 1998 and 2003.According to my research there is a positive attitude amongst the social workers interviewed to place the children with relatives. What the interviewees saw as a positive outcome of placements with relatives, was primarily that it is less difficult for the child to adapt to this familiar environment compared to the experiences when subjected to strangers. In addition, the placement with relatives gives the child a much greater opportunity for continuity. In contrast to this view some social workers were fearful that inherited harmful family patterns and behaviour could be experienced and a further view that such placement could more readily give rise to bad relations between the relative and the child's parents.Despite the positive attitude of most social workers to placement with relatives, in practice, this option is not always considered. Approximately half of the social workers that were interviewed were not aware that they were obliged to give such a placement primary consideration in accordance with the legislation. One of the pre-requisites for evaluating the placement of a child with relatives is the collection of information about family network and one of the studies showed that social workers often have a lack of knowledge of the child’s’ family network. Such information is often inadequately described in case reports and journals.
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- Linderot, Sofia, et al.
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Att placera i släktinghem
- 2007
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Ingår i: Normer och normalitet i socialt arbete. - 9789144022192 ; , s. 237-250
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Linderot, Sofia
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Av kärlek och plikt : Att bli familjehem till ett barnbarn, syskon eller syskonbarn
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation focuses on kinship foster parents and their experiences caring for their kinship children, something that is rarely touched on in kinship care research. The primary purpose of this study is to, based on a life-course perspective and with family theoretical concepts, analyze what it might mean to take care of a family member’s child through a formal commitment such as a foster care home. What are the reasons behind this decision and how does the decision shape the continued life course? How do the kinship carers navigatebetween the informal everyday life and the formal assignment as a foster home? How are the dual loyalties that arise through family relationships to both the child and the child’s parents handled? How can kinship care be understood in relation to concepts such as “family,” “home” and “foster home?” Kinship care and the kinship care family are analyzed from two focal points. First, that placement in kinship care is a social-services intervention, and second, that the kinship care family is a type of family with special inherent conditions. This dissertation applies the life-course perspective as theoretical orientation and analytical tool. The concepts of time and place, timing, linked lives and human agency are relevant in the analysis of my material. Family theoretical perspectives are also significant to the study and “doing family” is a key concept.From 2011 to 2014, 31 interviews were conducted with 44 kinship carers in 31 different kinship foster homes, for which six municipalities are responsible for the placements. The two largest groups consist of grandparents and maternal aunts and uncles. Interviewees also include paternal aunts and uncles and sibling carers.The term “kinship care” encompasses a multifaceted group of people and allkinship carers have their own unique life stories to tell. The often winding pathstheir lives have taken attests to the complex situation of kinship carers. Inherenttensions crystallize in the dissertation that are particularly characteristic of thekinship care family as such, as well as of the “kinship placement” form of care:foster home and “regular” home; out of love and duty; formal assignment andinformal obligations; strength and fragility. What unites kinship caretakers is their description that they care for the child out of a sense of love and duty and that they carry out their assignment with great commitment. It is hoped that shedding light on the kinship care home, with its strengths, weaknesses and needs, will increase knowledge about this particular form of care so that support and interventions can be adapted accordingly. Another aspiration is to contribute to the diversity of family constellations in family research by adding a particular family constellation that is rarely described – the kinship care family.
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