“Trying to be positive in the face of the storm”: The experiences of independent college students during the COVID‐19 pandemic
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic created multiple stressors for college students, particularly for young adults experiencing multiple forms of disadvantage. Little is known about the pandemic experiences of independent college students, many of whom are emancipated minors, former wards of the state, and other students who lack familial financial and practical support as they pursue higher education. Twenty-three independent students, ages 18 –23, from one northeastern university were interviewed to understand how independent students were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and their needs for support from the university dur...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 12, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Beth Sapiro,
Svetlana Shpiegel,
Marissa Ventola,
Silvia Ramirez Quiroz,
Oomi Helen Nwankwo,
Tariro Munyereyi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A resilience enhancing trauma ‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study
AbstractIn domestic violence (DV) shelters, offering psychosocial support services to mothers and children is vital. The program ‘Time for Tony the Turtle’ has been developed for mothers and children residing in DV shelters in the Netherlands. It aims to foster attachment and regulation skills, which can also prepare for trauma treatment if sought after later on. This qualitative study explores the experiences of mothers, children and professionals with the program and its perceived impact and what components function as facilitators and barriers in the implementation of such a program in DV crisis shelters in the Neth...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 9, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Mara L. Hoeven,
Guy A. M. Widdershoven,
Esther M. Duin,
Irma M. Hein,
Ram ón J. L. Lindauer Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The concept of family: Perspectives of Spanish young people in foster care
This article employs concepts from family sociology to explore how ‘family’ is conceptualised in 14 life narratives of young people in foster care in Spain. The article draws on a multi-method approach with young people who are in long-term non-kinship foster care. Seven girls and seven boys aged 10 to 22 took part in the study. The empirical material reveals a n interplay between biological preference and foster family affective practices in young people's narratives, illuminating a struggle to make sense of the concept of family in foster care. Most of the participants understand family as shared affective practices ...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Judite Ie Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Beyond survival: Strengthening community ‐based support for parents receiving a family service intervention
AbstractThis paper presents parents' experiences of community support and their recommendations for how their communities, and the services within them, might support their families. Generated through a human-centred design methodology and using a desire-centred framework, the findings suggest that parents receiving a family service require support invoking feelings of intimacy, trust, reciprocity, inclusivity, connection and belonging. Parents' recommendations for community support include addressing material and attitudinal constraints impacting on engagement with services; creating non-judgmental services tailored to th...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 25, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Rachel Goff,
Christina Sadowski,
Kerryn Bagley Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Realizing the potential of a strengths ‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents
AbstractThis paper on a strengths-based approach (SBA) to practice is based on empirical research with stakeholders involved in an intensive support programme for young people at risk and their parents in Ireland. The Youth Advocate Programme (YAP) model provides wraparound support to respond to their needs by focusing on their competencies and their coping skills and building networks of community-based supports. The model includes parents or carers in the suite of support offered by advocates. An SBA to practice has been discussed for some time in academic literature and practice guidance. However, it tends to be conside...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 23, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Carmel Devaney,
Bernadine Brady,
Rosemary Crosse,
Rebecca Jackson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Behavioural problems of adolescents in secure residential youth care: Gender differences and risk factors
AbstractAdolescents in secure residential care mostly suffer from serious behavioural problems, often accompanied by trauma and adverse family circumstances. This paper presents findings of a comparison of behavioural problems and risk factors of 255 boys and girls (aged 12 to 18 years) in secure residential care in the Netherlands and their association with behavioural problems. A cross-sectional design and standardized questionnaires were used to measure behavioural problems and individual and familial risk factors. By using independent-samplet tests, the severity of these factors in boys and girls was compared, and b...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 11, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Raymond V. Gutterswijk,
Chris H. Z. Kuiper,
Frank C. P. Horst,
Joran Jongerling,
Annemiek T. Harder,
Peter Prinzie Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Social worker decision ‐making in court
AbstractThe current study aimed to explore the factors that influence how social workers make decisions and develop their decision-making skills in care proceedings, and to identify effective support and intervention to develop social worker decision-making skills. The study employed a mixed thematic approach across two phases of study: an initial inductive thematic analysis of responses to an online qualitative questionnaire and then a mixed thematic analysis of follow-up focus groups and interviews with social workers working in various social work roles within England and Northern Ireland. The findings identified a numb...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 5, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Dale Abbotts,
Alyson Norman Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Securing permanence for children in care: A cross ‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care
In conclusion, people prefer adoption as placement options for children in care are more than foster homes, and possible this finding reflects a sort of refamalialization of children into the private sphere. (Source: Child and Family Social Work)
Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 4, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Marit Skivenes,
Rami Benbenishty Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Effectiveness of the International Child Development Programme: Results from a randomized controlled trial
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the International Child Development Programme (ICDP), a group-based parenting programme used internationally and implemented nationally in Norway. We used a cluster randomized controlled trial in which 81 groups were randomly assigned to either the intervention or waitlist control condition after the baseline data collection. A total of 590 parents completed at least one of three questionnaires (administrated before and after ICDP and 4 months after completing the intervention). Primary outcomes included parental self-efficacy, parental emotion sensitivity and positive i...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - October 2, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Idunn Brekke,
Otto R. F. Smith,
Eia Elena Skj ønsberg,
Tonje Holt,
Maren Sand Helland,
Leif Edvard Aarø,
Espen Røysamb,
Gun‐Mette Røsand,
Leila Torgersen,
Ane‐Marthe Solheim Skar,
Heidi Aase Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care
AbstractDisabled young people leaving care often experience a more complex transition to adulthood than other youths. Still, policy and services can fail to recognize the intersection between a young person's care experiences and disability. Drawing on data from a qualitative interview study with 14 social workers who work with aftercare in the Norwegian child welfare services, we investigate social workers' professional judgements about support for this subgroup of the leaving care population. Our analysis uses the theoretical construct of institutional logics and shows that social workers did not include concepts of disa...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - September 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Ingri ‐Hanne Braenne Bennwik,
Inger Oterholm,
Berni Kelly Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
How does family homelessness impact on children's development? A critical review of the literature
AbstractFamily homelessness is a key social issue across many European countries and is associated with uncertainty, a lack of safety and increased risks for children which can trigger the involvement of child welfare services. Living in homeless accommodation during the early years of a child's life also has the potential to impact on a child in many ways, for example, academically, physically, emotionally and socially. In the current paper, the authors review existing literature regarding the impact of family homelessness on children's development in order to identify key messages for social work practitioners working wi...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - September 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Sarah Murran,
Eavan Brady Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
What changes during specialized foster care? A study on adaptive functioning and emotional and social problems
AbstractVarious models of specialized foster care have been developed, but research on them is limited. This longitudinal, exploratory study analysed data on adaptive functioning, emotional and social problems and self-concept in a specialized foster care service in Sweden. The focus of the study was on the development of the children and young people in placement. The Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System (ABAS-II) was used to measure adaptive functioning, and the Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social Impairment (BYI) was used to measure self-rated emotional and social problems and self-concept. Self-ratings showe...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - September 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Anna ‐Karin E. Åkerman,
Rolf Holmqvist,
Fredrik Falkenström Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘It's rewarding because I get the love’: Grandparents raising grandchildren with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
AbstractThe aim of this study was to explore the lived experiences of grandparents raising their grandchildren with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Specifically, we sought to identify how caregivers make meaning of their experience, what challenges are faced by grandparents while raising a second generation and what positive experiences are encountered. Ten grandparents raising a child with FASD in Ontario, Canada, participated in semi-structured interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse the interviews to determine reoccurring themes. Three main themes were identified: (i) challenges...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - September 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Alexandra L. Clement,
Kelly D. Harding,
Shelley L. Watson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Child protection social workers in Italy and the Covid ‐19 challenges: Redefining services to support children and their families
AbstractDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, social workers played an essential role in helping people understand what was happening and cope with new unforeseen difficulties, even carrying out new tasks and activities. Social workers were asked to redefine their work methods to maintain aid relationships with families. This reorganization was complex and challenging for child protection services. The paper will discuss the results of a qualitative research project aimed to describe the Italian child protection social workers' functions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Three online focus groups were conducted with child protection s...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - September 15, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Valentina Calcaterra,
Camilla Landi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
