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- Andersson Vogel, Maria, 1980-, et al.
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Good idea, bad prerequisite, zero result - the meaning of context in implementing aftercare for young people in secure unit care
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Children's Services. - 1746-6660 .- 2042-8677. ; 9:3, s. 248-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose– The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to report results from a quasi-experimental study of outcomes of a leaving care project for youth placed in secure unit care and second, based on the (zero) results, to analyse and discuss the interplay between organisational boundaries, social work and the target group when implementing a project such as the one studied.Design/methodology/approach– The outcome study had a quasi-experimental design. The young people in the leaving care programme were compared with a matched reference group who did not get the special leaving care services. Data were collected (structured Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis-interviews) when the young people entered secure units and on follow-up (registered crime and re-entry into care).Findings– The outcome study showed that the leaving care project had no effect on the young people's situation at follow-up regarding re-offending and re-entry into secure unit care. This is understood and discussed in relation to the poor implementation of the leaving care project along with an inbuilt conflict between state and local municipality that overshadowed the good intentions of the project.Research limitations/implications– The effect study has a quasi-experimental design, and hence differences between the project group and the comparison group at T1 cannot be fully precluded, although nothing is pointing in such a direction. The unclear content of the intervention makes it difficult to decode how the variation in the support given to the young people eventually impacted the results. The zero-results apply to group level, but that may not be valid for each and every one in the project.Practical implications– According to earlier research, a key person following young persons through different phases of the care trajectory may be of importance. Learning from the CoC project, one can conclude that such a key person should preferably take the role of advocate for the young person, and not be an administrator mainly concerned with coordinating other professionals. Further, when planning and financing is split between organisations, that split hinders efforts to actually mobilise support for young people leaving secure unit care.Originality/value– Few leaving care services are designed for youth with severe behavioural problems and hence, the research is scarce. This study contributes with important knowledge about leaving care interventions for the target group.
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- Healy, Karen, et al.
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A Comparison of Out-of-home Care for Children and Young People in Australia and Sweden : Worlds Apart?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Australian Social Work. - 0312-407X .- 1447-0748. ; 64:4, s. 416-431
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we present a comparative analysis of out-of-home care in Australia and Sweden. We compare the age structure of the out-of-home care population and the types of out-of-home care services provided to children and young people in both countries. Our analysis reveals that in Australia the out-of-home care service system is focused mainly on children who are deemed to be abused or neglected within their families, while in Sweden the majority of the out-of-home care population are teenagers who cannot live with their families for emotional or behavioural reasons. These population differences intersect with variations in the forms of service provision in both countries, with a much greater reliance on home-based care in Australia than in Sweden, while there is more extensive use of residential care in Sweden. We envisage that this paper will demonstrate how the age structure of the out-of-home care population, though rarely considered in international comparative child welfare research, reveals much about the assumptions on which State intervention with children and young people is based. We intend that this analysis will assist social workers to better understand and address the gaps in the quality and comprehensiveness of out-of-home care service provision to children and young people in both countries.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Barnskyddets innersta kärna – om tvångsplaceringar som motiveras av barns hemförhållanden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 26:3-4, s. 283-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The inner core of child protection – on coercive placement motivated by abuse or neglectThis article is about emergency placement due to child abuse or neglect. Empirical data consists of judgements on coercive care in three administrative courts (n=211). Motives for placements are analysed against the background of the discursive changes that have taken place with regard to definitions of child abuse as well as today’s strong focus on risk and risk assessments. Results show that there were a number of motives to justify the court’s decision in each individual case. However, the broadening of the concept of abuse in research and in general discourse is evident in the judgements. We raise the question whether this matter, in practice, has resulted in more children being cared for because of an expansion of the concept of violence. As for risk assessments, two types of causal reasoning can be identified: situations where the child has been abused or neglected and where the risk assessment is about the probability that the problems will continue, and situations where the child has not been harmed but risks being harmed in the future. However, risk assessments are not that elaborate and systematic as presupposed in legislation. Taken together, the findings call for a discussion both within the justice system and in social work.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Familiepleje i Danmark [Foster Care in Denmark]
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 8:3, s. 287-288
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Familiepleje I Denmark by Bryderup, Engen and Kring (2017) is a very ambitious piece of work. The book has more than six hundred pages, and includes a Danish national empirical study of foster carers and foster children, the historical and socio political context of this type of care, a comparative sub study of care in Norway, Sweden and England in relation to Denmark, as well as an extensive review of research on foster care and children in placement. According to the authors, too little is known about the foster care system and the children in it. Therefore, the overall aim of the book is to bring knowledge to a field with big knowledge gaps.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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HVB för barn och unga - en evig vinstmaskin?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Socialpolitik. - 1104-6376. ; :2, s. 22-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Hvb, hem för vård eller boende, är kanske det fält inom välfärdsområdet där privatiseringarna gått som längst. Avkastningen är mycket hög, 20 procent. En siffra som sticker ut.Under rubriken ”Ungdomshem en guldgruva”, kunde Dagens Industri för fem år sedan konstatera: ”Boende för barn och ungdomar är en lönsam nisch för vårdbolag. Miljonvinsterna fortsätter att rulla in även om ett stundande vinstförbud hänger som ett mörkt moln över branschen”. Idag kan vi konstatera att något mörkt moln inte längre hänger som ett hot, vinstbegränsningar har i det stora hela försvunnit från den politiska dagordningen. Men hur är det då med själva vinsterna? Den frågan och hur det gått till när hvb-vård blivit ett fält för privata företag diskuteras i den här artikeln.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Klass, kön och etnicitet i den sociala barnavården
- 2003
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 10:2-3, s. 193-213
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna artikel tar utgångspunkt i ett socialpolitiskt perspektiv och analyserar hur barnavårdsproblem över tid kopplats till klass, kön och etnicitet. Hur har dessa faktorer behandlats i officiella texter om barnavård under 1900talet och hur framstår de i offentlig statistik?
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Sibling contact among Swedish children in foster and residential care : Out of home care in a family service system
- 2012
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Ingår i: Children and youth services review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0190-7409 .- 1873-7765. ; 34:2, s. 396-402
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates siblingcontact among Swedish fostered children in foster and residentialcare. The study also examines a potential link between siblingcontact and psychosomatic status. Highly structured interviews were conducted with 240 young people (13–18 years) in out of homecare. Results show unfulfilled desire for siblingcontact among children in Swedishout-of-homecare. Nearly 40% of the children interviewed see their siblings more seldom than monthly and a good half of the children—more girls than boys—want more siblingcontact. The longer the time the children have spent in care, the greater is the risk of being without contact with brothers and sisters; and the more seldom the children see their siblings, the more they crave contact. The Swedishfamilyservicesystem is obviously no guarantee of fostered children keeping their desired contact with brothers and sisters. Thus, an important task for social workers and others involved in the life of separated children is to open opportunities for contact—if the children want it. From achildren's rights perspective, it is fundamental to facilitate siblingcontact among fostered children according to their own wishes.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Stability and change in the field of residential care for children : On ownership structure, treatment ideas and institutional logics
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 10:1, s. 39-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The field of residential care for children and youth in Sweden is often termed unstable and turbulent. During recent decades the field has been subject to many changes. In this study, the development and changes in the field of residential care for children and youth in terms of ownership structure and treatment ideas will be analysed. The study is particularly focused on the changes in ownership structure that have taken place during the 2010s. It also analyses changes in treatment ideas, and discusses how these may relate to transformations of ownership structures as well as to dimensions of institutional logics, such as legislation and other types of normative pressure from the environment.The result reveals that of the approximately 450 treatment oriented residential care units (excluding homes for refugee children), close to 80 % are today run by private companies and to a growing extent by large for-profit corporations. Parallel – and possibly related – to the changes in ownership structure, the dominant treatment ideas have changed over time. The changes in the field can be summarised as a transformation from small-scale establishments with a family logic, to large-scale establishments with a professional logic, or more specifically from a domination of small family run units with milieu therapy to big business and a focus on evidence based interventions.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Sweden - A Family Service Model with Tensions
- 2012
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Ingår i: Evolution of Child Protection and Child Welfare Policies in Selected European Countries. - Ostrava : ERIS European Research Institute for Social Work. - 9788074641633 ; , s. 277-292
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Meagher, Gabrielle, et al.
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Big Business in a Thin Market : Understanding the Privatization of Residential Care for Children and Youth in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social Policy & Administration. - : Wiley. - 0144-5596 .- 1467-9515. ; 50:7, s. 805-823
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes the transformation of Swedish residential care homes for children from a regionally coordinated, public social service system into a thin, but highly profitable, national spot market in which large corporations have a growing presence. Marketization and privatization are theorized as complex processes, through which the institutional structure and logics of this small, but significant, social policy field changed profoundly. Using official documents, register data, media reports and existing research, three consecutive phases in the development of the children’s home market are identified since the early 1980s. Change was driven on one hand by policies inspired by New Public Management, which shifted public authority horizontally to the private sector, and vertically to local authorities (funding) and to the state (regulation). On the other hand were responses of local authorities and private actors to the changing incentives that policy shifts entailed. During the first two phases, both the proportion and size of for-profit providers increased, and the model of family-like care was replaced by a professional model. Cutting across the trend of privatization in the third phase was establishment of a parallel system of homes for unaccompanied refugee children – mostly in public ownership. Similarities with privatization in the English system of children’s care homes are noted. By showing how the Swedish market for residential care has been created by policy and by actors’ responses to those reforms, the article provides a foundation for thinking through how the predictable, significant and well-documented problems of such care markets might be addressed.
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- Shanks, Emelie, et al.
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Impression management in the market for residential care for children and youth in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Social Policy & Administration. - : Wiley. - 0144-5596 .- 1467-9515. ; 55:1, s. 82-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In what has become quite a turbulent quasi‐market for residential care for children and youth, providers now compete for public contracts. To create visibility and attract customers, many providers use marketing activities to project the desired impression of themselves to maintain or strengthen their market position. In this article, we analyse how companies that provide residential care for children manage the impressions they project on their websites and in advertisements. The results reveal that residential care providers use a range of impression management strategies to enhance their organizational image and to respond to potentially damaging or threatening images. The information providers choose to disclose leaves customers—in this case, the social workers responsible for choosing and purchasing care on behalf of clients—with rather limited opportunities to evaluate the quality of care. This is a significant problem considering other, more reliable, sources of information are difficult to access.
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- Andersson, Gunvor, et al.
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Social barnavård och barns utsatthet
- 2012. - 1
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Ingår i: När samhället träder in. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144067445 ; , s. 13-28
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Andersson, Peter, 1980-, et al.
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Beyond professional terms – the family metaphor in staff descriptions of their relations to young people in secure
- 2024
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Ingår i: Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care. - 1478-1840. ; 23:1, s. 7-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One premise for the organisation of residential care for youthis that staff are expected to relate to each young personindividually, but also to the group of young people as a whole.The relational interplay between staff and placed youths insecure unit care is fundamentally based on asymmetry, withinteractions taking place in a context of confinement. The aimhere is to explore how staff working in secure institutionalcare for youths in Sweden understand and describe theirrelationships with youth in terms that extend beyondprofessionalism, and especially their use of the familymetaphor. Fifty-three interviews with staff were analysed in atwo-step qualitative analysis, which generated three themesthat highlighted staff narratives focusing on descriptions ofparenting, sibling relationships, and closeness without usingthe family metaphor. One conclusion is that despite an overallshift away from the family metaphor, in the direction offraming residential care in professional terms, the familyconcept seems to sit quite well even in an environment withambitions to provide professional care. The family metaphormay not be the cornerstone of care, but it is eminentlypresent.
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- Lundström, Tommy, 1952-, et al.
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Den sociala barnavården och dess klienter
- 2017
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Ingår i: Den kantstötta välfärden. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144119045 ; , s. 223-248
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- Sallnäs, Marie, 1952-
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Barnavårdens institutioner : framväxt, ideologi och struktur
- 2000
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study presents an overview of the historical growth and deve-lopment of residential care for children and youth in Sweden as well as an analysis of the present-day structure and organisation. The empirical material consists of official statistics, government reports and data from a questionnaire addressed to all registered residential homes in the child welfare sector at the end of 1995. The history of residential care for children and youth is marked by a period of establishment and expansion in the first decades of the last century, followed by a process of major de-institutionalisa-tion in the period after the Second World War. A third phase was introduced with the Social Service Act of 1980, which laid down new premises for child welfare. Traditional concepts of children’s homes were replaced in the legislation by the “HVB-home” and the dividing line between institutions and foster homes became blurred. The study shows that contrary to what was intended, a growing part of out-of-home placements during the 1980:s and 1990:s where into residential care. In fact, residential care has taken over “market shares” from foster care in Sweden. Analysis of the range of alternatives shows that residential care today is relatively small-scale and that nearly all of the smaller units are privately run. Approximately half of the homes have teenagers as their target group and most homes work with longer-term pro-grammes of treatment and care. Educational background among staff varies considerably, but in general the level of educational is low. So far, no professional forces have proved strong enough to organise the field on a mutually knowledgeable, normative ground. A problem is the lack of unanimous concepts and a common language with a terminology that can be used for a systematic de-scription of the care or treatment given. What is clear, however, is that a new form of residential care can be identified – so-called hy-brid homes that are somewhere in between extended foster homes and small institutions – and that these homes have gained a con-siderable position in the field.
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- Sallnäs, Marie, 1952-
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Institutionsvård för barn och unga
- 2012. - 1
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Ingår i: När samhället träder in. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144067445 ; , s. 185-204
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- Sallnäs, Marie, 1952-, et al.
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Privatisering inom individ- och familjeomsorgen
- 2018
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Ingår i: Manifest. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144125688 ; , s. 59-69
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Privata aktörer har en framträdande roll inom flera av socialtjänstens verksamhetsområden, något som påverkar förutsättningarna för arbetet. Forskningen har pekat ut flera problem som är förknippade med den typ av marknadsförhållanden som råder på socialtjänstområdet. En försvårande omständighet är att de som direkt berörs av socialtjänstens insatser är en socialt selekterad grupp med svag samhällsposition och med starkt begränsade möjligheter att utöva någon form av konsumentmakt. I kapitlet diskuteras privatiseringens omfattning och konsekvenser, samt i vilken riktning man ska tro att utvecklingen går i framtiden.
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- Sallnäs, Marie, 1952-, et al.
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Samhällsvårdade barn, gate-keeping och forskning
- 2010
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Forsa, Umeå. - 1104-1420. ; 17:2, s. 116-133-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Within the discourse of childhood sociology, children are extensively regarded as “social actors”, a perspective that underlines the importance of asking children about their lives and experiences. To actually carry out such research, however, raises several methodological, principal, ethical and practical issues, especially when the research is about vulnerable children as those in out-of-home care. In this article we discuss the issue of gate-keeping when conducting research with children in foster homes or residential care. As a concrete example we use experiences from a survey of living conditions among those children. The research questions were: 1) How and by whom is gate-keeping carried out when research is conducted among children in out of home care? 2) How could one as a researcher relate to gate-keeping carried out by adults in the environment of the children versus children’s one will? 3) What impact does gate-keeping have on results, feasibility and in a wider perspective the knowledge production regarding children in social care? The article shows that researchers needs to encounter a chain of gate-keepers to be able to get access to the children, and often attrition is high in studies with children as informants. Adults can serve both as gate-keepers and gate-openers. Our conclusion is that children in social care can be reached for research purpose, but that it is time-consuming, challenging and as a researcher one is often faced with ethical dilemmas. It is clear that there has to be a balance between gate-keeping and gate-opening. In this balance, on the one hand, it is possible for children to talk to researchers when they wish to do so, on the other hand, children must be protected so they are not exploited as research objects.
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- Sallnäs, Marie, 1952-, et al.
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Samhällsvårdade barn, gate-keeping och forskning : [Children in out-of-home care, gate-keeping and research]
- 2010
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 17:2, s. 116-133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ett aktörsperspektiv på barn har blivit alltmer centralt i barn- och barnavårdsforskning. I artikeln diskuteras principiella och praktiska frågor när ett sådant perspektiv ska omsättas i forskning om samhällsvårdade barns förhållanden. Avvägningen mellan forskningsintresset och barns rätt till skydd och integritet analyseras.
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- Tideman, Eva, et al.
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Paired reading : ett försök i sju kommuner med lästräning för famljehemsplacerade barn
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Forskning visar att hur barn lyckas i skolan är den enskilt viktigaste faktorn för hur det går senare i livet. Vi vet också att familjehemsplacerade barn får sämre betyg än sina jämnåriga och underpresterar i förhållande till sina förutsättningar. Att ge barn i samhällsvård systematiskt stöd i skolarbetet är därför nödvändigt om vi vill förbättra deras framtidsutsikter. SkolFam är ett exempel på en framgångsrik modell som prövats i Sverige under flera år och som uppvisat goda resultat.I den här rapporten redovisas resultaten från ett utvecklingsprojekt i sju kommuner där familjehemsplacerade barn lästränats med hjälp av Paired Reading (parläsning). Paired Reading är en strukturerad metod som tränar läsförmågan hos barn genom att en vuxen (i det här projektet familjehemsföräldern) läser tillsammans med barnet regelbundet under fyra månader. Läsförmåga som är av största betydelse för att undvika skolmisslyckanden.Projektet har genomförts i samarbete mellan de sju kommunerna (Linköping, Västerås, Jönköping, Värnamo, Nässjö, Huddinge, Sundbyberg ), Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset samt forskare vid Institutionen för socialt arbete, Stockholms universitet och Institutionen för psykologi vid Lunds universitet. Forskarna (rapportförfattarna) har ansvarat för och genomfört utvärderingen av projektet som har finansierats genom anslag från Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset och Socialstyrelsen samt med medel från de deltagande kommunerna.
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- Vinnerljung, Bo, 1950-, et al.
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Paired reading for foster children : results from a Swedish replication of an English literacy intervention
- 2014
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Ingår i: Adoption & Fostering. - : SAGE Publications. - 0308-5759 .- 1740-469X. ; 38:4, s. 361-373
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A UK literacy intervention – Paired Reading – was replicated in seven Swedish local authorities, with 81 foster children aged 8–12 participating in a 16-week trial. Ability was measured pre/post intervention with age-standardised literacy tests and a short version of the WISC-IV. Results confirm and expand findings from the UK, namely that: almost all foster carers and children completed the programme (attrition 2.4%), average improvement in reading age was 11 months, basically the same as in the UK; younger children (aged 8–9) improved significantly on all four administered standardised reading tests, and on the WISC-IV Vocabulary subtest. Older children (aged 10–12) improved significantly on three of five literacy tests and on the WISC-IV Vocabulary subtest. On the short version of WISC-IV, vocabulary improvements over time reduced the proportion of children who could be classified as having ‘weak cognitive skills’ (IQ <85) from 54% to 36%. This finding is in line with results from other studies, indicating that scores from cognitive tests of pre-teen children in out-of-home care should not be regarded as fixed and can be improved by effective interventions.
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