Search: onr:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:oru-20763" >
Settling into a new...
Settling into a new home as a teenager : about establishing social bonds in different types of foster families in Sweden
-
- Hedin, Lena (author)
- Örebro universitet,Akademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete,Univ Orebro, Sch Law Psychol & Social Work, Orebro, Sweden,ICU CHILD
-
- Höjer, Ingrid, 1953 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete,Department of Social Work
-
- Brunnberg, Elinor, 1948- (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd,ICU CHILD
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- Elsevier BV, 2011
- 2011
- English.
-
In: Children and youth services review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0190-7409 .- 1873-7765. ; 33:11, s. 2282-2289
- Related links:
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
show more...
-
https://doi.org/10.1...
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
https://gup.ub.gu.se...
-
show less...
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- This paper provides a glimpse into young people's experiences and understandings of everyday life during their initial stages of placement in various types of foster families. The way family interactions strengthen or weaken the social bond between foster youth and foster family is focused upon. In this study the young people in kinship foster families reported the strongest social bonds to their foster families and the adolescents in traditional foster families the weakest. This is in line with previous research. However, youth in network foster families with whom they were not so close prior to placement also reported rather strong social bonds to the foster family, which is not well known. Including network foster families in the study sheds light on the importance of adolescents' active involvement and agency in choosing their foster family. Examples of family interactions which seem to be crucial in strengthening social bonds, also in traditional foster families, are e.g. fair treatment by other family members, mutual family activities, negotiating to find solutions, and, which is not so well known, humorous joking and laughing together. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Everyday life
- Foster youth
- Family interaction
- Social bond
- Kinship foster family
- Humour
- Social Work
- Socialt arbete
- everyday life
- foster youth
- family interaction
- social bond
- kinship foster family
- humour
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
To the university's database