Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out ‐of‐home care: The HEAR practice model
This article builds on this work and reports findings of a qualitative study that involved 30 out-of-home care practitioners. Constructivist Grounded Theory was applied to analyse the research data which resulted in the HEAR model that outlines the practice components that out-of-home care practitioners considered important in effectively responding to children's experience of ambiguous loss. These components are (1)Honouring ambiguous loss; (2)Establishing a care community; (3)Attuning to the lack of finality of ambiguous loss and (4)Reducing ambiguity. This article presents research findings that supported the developmen...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - August 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Kenny Kor,
Jodie Park,
Rashelle Dear,
Belinda Fabrianesi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘You've got to love her’—Perceptions of birth mothers among children in long‐term foster care
In this study, we explore the meaning that 14 children and youths in long-term non-kinship foster care in Spain ascribe to their birth mothers. We found three main perspectives among the participants. Within these perspectives, age, gender and socio-cultural context seem to be intertwined in how children and youths in foster care perceive their birth mother's role in their lives. The analysis gives insight into the complexity of child –mother relationships and how young people navigate these. In light of these findings, we discuss some practical implications for social workers in child protection services. (Source: Child...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - August 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Judite Ie,
Ingunn T. Ellingsen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Social work's colonial past with Indigenous children and communities in Australia and Canada: A cross ‐national comparison
This article offers a cross-national comparison of social work in two countries, Australia and Canada, about the care of Indigenous children within the context of colonization and the evolving profession. The discussion is based on data from two empirical studies that examined professional discourse relating to the removal of Indigenous children from their families and Indigenous peoples more broadly within key historical time frames. The studies involved a content analysis of the flagship journals of the Australian and Canadian professional associations. It is argued that a critical interrogation of professional discourse...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - August 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Nilan Yu,
Marina Morgenshtern,
Jeanette Schmid Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Vulnerabilities among children of rag ‐pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 3
AbstractUrban poverty is spreading at a rampant pace in the developing world. Children of rag-pickers are the product of urbanized system, born and brought up into underprivileged setups which restricts their opportunities. These children are exposed to all kinds of abuse and neglect due to their living conditions. The contemporary default support system continuously reinforces higher degree of vulnerability due to the engagement in stigmatized occupation of rag-picking followed by this community, imposing restrictions on access to basic services. These families live on streets and their children suffer from health inequal...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - August 1, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Aishwarya Gautam,
Subhasis Bhadra Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Enhancing domestic violence risk assessments with children's perspectives: Exploring risk, vulnerability and protective factors through forensic interviews
This study aims to explore what risk, vulnerability and protective factors can be identified through forensic interviews with children exposed to domestic violence. A qualitative latent content analysis was conducted on documented forensic interviews with 41 children. The results show that children reported factors that should be taken into consideration when managing the risk of violence for their mother. In addition, the children's responses suggest the need for a separate risk management plan to address their needs and to protect them from re-victimization. Direct communication with children is crucial to identify facto...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - July 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Martina Vikander,
Susanne Strand Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child and Family Social Work - July 17, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Investigating challenges and family resilience among Chinese families with cross ‐boundary students: A multisystemic approach
This study produced new knowledge about CBS families. Findings suggest that fostering the resilience of CBS families relies as much on the families themselves as it does on other structural supports. (Source: Child and Family Social Work)
Source: Child and Family Social Work - July 13, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: He Bu,
Iris Kam ‐fung Liu,
Xinli Chi,
Nancy Xiaonan Yu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year
AbstractThe infants of women with histories of problematic alcohol and other drug use are among the most vulnerable children known to statutory child protection services, which they enter at a younger age, and in which they remain longer. The net results include overwhelmed child protection systems and the birth of subsequent children conceived to ease women's grief at the loss their infants. Without adequate and appropriate support to the mother and her family, the pattern repeats. Obstetric services have an important role to play in the assessment of risk and protective factors in the perinatal period and in determining ...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - July 12, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Menka Tsantefski,
Lynne Briggs,
Jessica Griffiths Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A qualitative study on parental mediation of rural ‐to‐urban migrant children's smartphone use in China: Concerns, strategies and challenges
This study explores parental mediation of smartphone use by rural-to-urban migrant children in China. A total of 16 migrant parents participated in semi-structured interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis is conducted to analyse the transcribed interviews. Findings indicate that migrant parents are highly concerned about the harmful impact of smartphone use on their children. Three parental mediation strategies mentioned in previous studies are confirmed, that is, restriction mediation, monitoring and active mediation, whereas a new mediation strategy, namely, activity substitution, is identified in this study. This study f...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - July 11, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Dan Huang,
Yingting Luo,
Xinru He,
Lihua Hong,
Birong Zhang Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Do adolescent girls' relationships with their parents influence their perceptions of the therapeutic alliance and group climate in residential care?
AbstractAdolescent girls placed in residential care are often the victims of childhood experiences of maltreatment. Their history of relational trauma may subsequently limit their ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with others, a central component for their development and adaptation. The goal of the present study was to determine the nature and strength of associations between adolescent girls' relationship quality with their parents at admission to care and their perceptions, 3 months later, of the therapeutic alliance and group climate within their unit. The sample consisted of 156 adolescent gi...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - July 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: M égan Rollin,
Katherine Pascuzzo,
Nadine Lanctôt Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers
AbstractThere is growing recognition, in the UK and internationally, of the huge costs of recurrent appearances of parents in local authority care proceedings. This paper contributes to pressing policy and practice concerns to reduce recurrence. It presents qualitative longitudinal data from the first study of fathers' experiences of recurrent care proceedings in England. Demonstrating the emotional impact of repeat proceedings and successive loss of children on fathers, in terms of grief, loss and shame, we highlight the trauma and abuse in their developmental histories. We consider complex connections between anger and s...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - June 30, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Georgia Philip,
Lindsay Youansamouth,
Karen Broadhurst,
John Clifton,
Stuart Bedston,
Yang Hu,
Marian Brandon Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Support networks among immigrant parents of young children: Assessing ecologies to inform outreach efforts
We examined factors that may correlate with seeking child-related advice and/or emotional support. Sixty-one percent of the sample approached at least one formal or informal contact for emotional support or advice in the past year, a nd willingness to do so was correlated with having a child with a suspected or diagnosed delay or disability. Stronger parent–stakeholder rapport was more likely to be reported with informal supports among younger parents (aged 20–30). Respondents with greater perceived parenting stress and chil d behaviour concerns were more likely to seek out stakeholders and less personalised sources. W...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - June 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicole Megan Edwards,
Zeynep Isik ‐Ercan,
Huan‐Tang Lu,
Latifa Sebti Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Grandparents with different health statuses as primary caregivers: Are they bad for children's health?
AbstractThe prevalence and intensity of grandparenting have continued to increase in the era of rapid aging. However, little is known about grandparents with different health statuses as primary caregivers and their implications for children's health. A nationally representative cohort of over 8990 Chinese children interviewed from 2010 to 2018 was used. Random effects logit models were constructed to assess the association of the primary caregiver type (grandparents vs. parents) and caregiver health with child health. Subsequently, additive interactions between the primary caregiver type and caregiver health were estimate...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - June 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Chunyu Lu,
Jingru Zong,
Lingli Wang,
Qing Wang Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A transitional object for relatedness and self ‐development—A meta‐synthesis of youths' experience of engagement in self‐harm content online
This study aims to synthesize qualitative studies on youths' (12 –25 years of age) engagement in self-harm content online (SCO). We conducted a systematic database search of studies on first-person experience and included 16 studies. The meta-synthesis resulted in two meta-themes: 1) “Belonging to a community – online engagement with peers who self-harm” and 2) “Self-development – online engagement to get to know myself”. Following Winnicott's (1953) thinking, digital activity is discussed as an extended peer arena with a “transitional” quality – neither completely internal, nor external, and potentia...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - June 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Line Indrevoll St änicke,
Marte Hjertås Hermansen,
Margrethe Seeger Halvorsen Tags: REVIEW Source Type: research
Accessibility of social services and ICT ‐based services for children with disabilities and their families
This study used an explanatory sequential mixed method design. A total of 99 parents of children enrolled in two schools for special education or rehabilitation hospital participated in the study. Data were collected from parents through either a questionnaire survey or interviews. The study was conducted from 5 November to 5 December 2018. More than 50% of the participants found it inconvenient to search for services and reported below-average satisfaction because of a lack of information and the results being inappropriate, abstract, difficult to understand, insufficient and scattered. More than 70% of the participants w...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - June 28, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Dahae Rim,
Hyunsook Shin,
Hyejin Jeon Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
