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Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Ann‐Sofie Bergman, Miia Bask, Kristina Engwall, Ulrika Järkestig Berggren
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities (n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for
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Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care: Insights From an Aboriginal‐Led Community Forum Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kyllie Cripps, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kimberly Chiswell, Lisa Wellington, Richard Ardler, Fiona Frith, Tori Jones, Mandy Kent, Neika Tong
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal
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A Service‐Led Pragmatic Evaluation of Family Foundations Targeting the Reduction of Perinatal Parent Mental Health Difficulties and Family Conflict in Australia Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Rebecca Giallo, Grace McMahon, Madison Schulz, Alison Fogarty, Monique Seymour, Casey Hosking, Helen Findley, Carolyn Wallace, Samantha Bladon, Mark Feinberg
A service‐led evaluation of home‐based Family Foundations (FF), a perinatal intervention targeting interparental conflict and mental health difficulties, was conducted in Melbourne, Australia. The aims were to assess (a) pre–post intervention changes, (b) parent satisfaction and (c) intervention fidelity. Participants included 288 families who completed self‐report surveys, and FF clinicians who completed
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Experiences From Treatment for Anxiety and Depression Among Youth in Foster Care: A Qualitative Study Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Yasmin Moussavi, Bente Storm Mowatt Haugland, Gro Janne Wergeland, Stine Lehmann, Silje Mæland
Youth in foster care are at high risk of internalizing problems. However, research is scarce regarding their experiences of mental health treatment. This knowledge is important if mental health services are to meet their needs. Through qualitative interviews, we explored the experiences of youth in foster care (N = 9, aged 16–18 years) having been treated for anxiety and depression. Systematic text
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Parental Satisfaction With Child Welfare Services in Norway Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Claire Degail, Sabine Kaiser, Reidar Jakobsen, Monica Martinussen
This study aims to examine parents' satisfaction with Norwegian child welfare services (CWS) and factors associated with parents' satisfaction. Different factors were included in the analysis, such as characteristics of the contact with CWS, and service aspects, as evaluated by parents (accessibility, information quality, workers' skills and user participation). Data were collected from 412 parents
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Issue Information Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-04-04
No abstract is available for this article.
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An anchor in instability or an inhibitor for development? Professional perceptions of siblinghood in family group homes in Israel Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Osher Barnea, Noa Cohen, Inbal Hindi, Moshe Dolev, Orna Taus, Carmit Katz
Most children who are removed from their homes by social services have siblings. Yet, siblinghood is an unnoticed and understudied field of interest. Professionals lack a framework for addressing this common issue in out-of-home placement decision-making and caregiving. The current study examined how professionals in family group homes in Israel perceive and approach sibling bonds, as well as the main
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Manoeuvring Among Institutions and Pandemic Restrictions: When the Fantasy of Parenting After Divorce or Breakup and the Respective Emotions Matter Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Eva M. Hejzlarová
Understanding social factors that affected how people interpreted the meanings of COVID-19 measures is important in postpandemic times. This study applies perspectives from research on emotions as one of the possible explanations and focuses on how institutions and their measures are perceived in the context of individual emotional situations. The aim of the study is to understand how parents with
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How Do Child Welfare Workers Understand and Practice Child Participation? Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Berit Skauge, Anita S. Storhaug
Child participation is strongly emphasized as a value and a right in the Norwegian child welfare (CW) system. Based on focus group interviews with 24 CW employees, we explore how CW workers understand and practice child participation in various work phases: assessment; supportive measures in the home; out‐of‐home placements. Two main forms of participation were identified: indirect participation, where
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Social and Emotional Functions of Institutional Touch in the Relational Care of Young Children Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Asta Cekaite, Madeleine Wirzén
This study reports results concerning close embodied practices, involving touch, in early childhood care settings in Sweden during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The data—video recordings of everyday practices in contexts of childcare—were collected during various phases of the pandemic. The study demonstrates a broad range of uses of touch, by adults and children themselves in various age groups and for various
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Children's Behavioural Issues and Kinship Caregiver Depression: The Roles of Self‐Care and Formal Support Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Wenjing Shao, Fei Sun, Gretchen Sheneman, Michele Brock
The purpose of this study was to examine two intervening variables, self‐care and formal support that affect the relationship between children with behavioural issues and caregiver depression. Specifically, this study examines whether self‐care can mediate the relationship between children's behavioural issues and caregivers' depression levels and whether formal support can moderate the relationship
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Comparison of Systems and Outcomes for Safeguarding Children in Australia and Norway: A Decade of Rapid Change Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Bente Heggem Kojan, Erica Russ, Gaute Skrove, Bob Lonne
Using aggregated national data, this paper re‐examines the outcomes of the Australian and Norwegian protective systems during the past decade and compares it to the trends and issues identified in our earlier 2012 study. We outline the context of increased service demand affecting both countries with rapid expansion and reform of their policies and approaches. A convergence has been occurring regarding
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Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Delphine Peace, Carlie Goldsmith, Michelle Lefevre
This paper explores how seven organisations from the children's social care sector in England adapted their service during the Covid‐19 pandemic restrictions to better meet the needs of young people experiencing extra‐familial risks and harms. Particularly, it focuses on these organisations' experience of attempting to transform services in a unique crisis context and considers what insights this situated
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Stories With Blurred Contours Family Displays of Foster Families and Young Children in Out-of-Home Care Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ulrika Levander
The aim of the study was to investigate foster parents' displays and narratives about family life as foster parents of toddlers and preschool children and how these influence the welfare and sense of family belonging for younger children in foster care. Based on qualitative interviews with 16 foster parents in 10 foster families of looked-after children aged 1–6, narratives about the children, their
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Conflicts with Friends and Romantic Partners: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of the Experiences of Girls in Care Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Samantha Chan, Katherine Wincentak, Jennifer Connolly
Conflicts are common in adolescent friendships and romantic relationships. The ways girls in care navigate conflicts in close relationships have implications for their resilience, since their family relationships are compromised. We employed qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore the conflicts in the friend and romantic relationships of 37 girls in care. They completed an interview about
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Internet Impacts on Parent–Child Communication in Vietnamese Urban Families Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Lan Thi Thai Nguyen, Thi Kim Dung Le, Van Cong Tran, Duc Nam Nguyen, Hong Kien Nguyen, Duy Dung Le
With 72% of Vietnamese households using the Internet after Vietnam first had access in November 1997, the traditional culture of parent–child communication within families in particular has been significantly influenced by the arrival of this technology. This paper presents a mixed‐method study that surveyed 464 parent–child dyads, conducted 30 in‐depth interviews and 6 group discussions held in three
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Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Silje Louise Dahl, Kjartan Leer‐Salvesen, Malene Øvrelid, Solveig Karin Bø Vatnar
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major criminal, social and public health problem. As one effort to prevent IPV and intimate partner homicide, several countries have adopted legislation requiring professionals to disclose IPV to the authorities (commonly referred to as mandatory reporting). The child welfare service (CWS) is centrally positioned for detecting, reporting and preventing IPV, but
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Embodied practice in a disembodied time: How the COVID‐19 pandemic shaped direct work with children and young people Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Heather Ellis, Ariane Critchley
The COVID‐19 pandemic and related restrictions imposed in the UK had a significant impact on social work practice with children and young people. As has been widely reported, practitioners were deprived of multisensory information in their assessments and of opportunities to connect with children. In this article, we consider data from Scotland, created through interviews with practitioners during
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Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Daniella Delali Sedegah
Child labour is a complex social problem worldwide, affecting the physical, moral and educational development of children. A cross sectional quantitative survey research design was used to assess child labour in quarrying activities of the Ga West Municipality, Ghana. The municipality was selected due to evidence in literature of children engaging in quarrying activities. The study examined child labour
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Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E‐Records and Professional Interviews Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jo Staines, Beth Stone, Jessica Roy, Gillian Macdonald
Understanding more about the discharge of care orders is vital—whether a care order remains in place has significant implications for children and their families and for local authorities. While there has been comprehensive research about the process and outcomes of care proceedings, much less is known about the discharge of care orders—particularly how, why and when care orders are ended and the differences
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Reintegration of street-connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Johanna K. P. Greeson, John R. Gyourko, Sarah Wasch, Christopher S. Page
In Kenya, the number of street-involved children continues to grow each decade, with most recent estimates as high as 250 000 to 300 000. Despite efforts by local government, nongovernmental organizations, and community-based organizations to address this problem, most children who receive services end up returning to the streets. Since 2021, Agape Children's Ministry has provided time-limited, crisis-oriented
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Improving the accuracy of social work judgements: A proof‐of‐concept study of a training programme Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 David Wilkins
Child and family social workers routinely make professional judgements involving significant legal and moral questions (e.g. whether a child has been abused) and more ‘everyday’ issues (e.g. will the child be re‐referred again if we close the case now?) Yet the world is capricious, and we rarely know with certainty what is going to happen in future or the likely impact of our different choices. Given
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Whose benefactors? Whose beneficiaries?—Negotiating help at the intersection between the family and the state Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Sabine Ellung Jørgensen
Social work is characterized as a helping profession. Consequently, the nature and purposes of social work revolve around concepts of help and helping. In this article, I explore what happens when the extended family network and friends are brought together by child welfare services to make decisions to help a child. Based on analyses of a single videotaped family group conference, this article offers
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Adoptive parent linguistics: Links to adoptees' relationships with their birth mother Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Anna W. Wright, Albert Y. H. Lo, Hollee McGinnis, Carine Leslie, Harold D. Grotevant
The study addressed whether specific linguistic variables used by adoptive parents were associated with ratings of the adoptee's relationship with their birth mothers.
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The relationship between resilience and parental behaviours: The moderating role of parent and child age Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Agnieszka Lasota, Justyna Mróz
The present study investigates the relationship between resilience and parental behaviours and examines the moderating role of parent and child age in this relationship. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with a sample of 204 parents of children aged 6 months to 12 years. The Resilience Assessment Scale and the Parenting Behaviours and Dimensions Questionnaire were used. The findings
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Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sofie Henze-Pedersen, Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson
In this article, we develop a model for child participation in child welfare services (CPC). Child participation has gained increasing attention in research, policy and practice in the last couple of decades. Two perspectives have concurrently moved this agenda forward—childhood sociology and children's rights—leading to an almost irrefutable understanding of children as social actors with independent
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Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Iselin Huseby-Lie, Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik, Hilde Anette Aamodt
Previous studies suggest a widespread notion among social workers that children should be involved in child protection processes. Nevertheless, children are found to be unsatisfied with the degree to which they feel involved and heard in those processes. This study explored social workers' reasons to exclude children from conversations about contact visits. It applied a social constructivist approach
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Uncertainty and instability in social and health services impact well-being of mothers with lived and living history of substance use Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Laura Daari, Emily Nichol, Julia Peak, Karen Urbanoski, Hanna Valeriote, Karen Milligan
Mothers who use substances often experience gender-based and structural inequities that can jeopardize maternal and family wellness. Instability in the availability of services, particularly during public health crises (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic), often results in changes in population health needs/funding/services, which may magnify experiences of disadvantage. Limited research has focused on times
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Parents' perspectives on the results of mandatory child protection support: A qualitative study Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Eline H. J. Doelman, Frank C. P. van der Horst, Maartje P. C. M. Luijk, Majone J. Steketee
In situations where parents do not accept support while their family situation is assessed as unsafe (for instance in cases of child abuse and neglect), it is sometimes necessary to offer mandatory support to families. The aim of the current study is to investigate how parents perceive the results of mandatory support from Child Protection Services (CPS) and which elements of the mandatory support
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‘Supervising children to be good people’: Parents and children's views of child supervision in Laos Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Saithong Phommavong, Sol Park, Maliphone Douangphachanh
Researchers have paid little attention to child supervision in Laos, an ethnically-diverse country with a community-informal child protection system, and where many young children are regularly home alone or with another child. To explore what constitutes (in)adequate child supervision and its perceived effects, we conducted individual interviews with community leaders and professionals (n = 23) and
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‘This is what happens to people who don't spank their kids’: An analysis of YouTube comments to news reports of child to parent violence Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Helena Cortina, Amanda Holt
Child to parent violence (CPV) is a form of family violence that has seen a growth in research attention over the past decade. However, little research has examined how this problem is understood by those outside of academia. This is despite recognition that public understandings of a particular social problem shape the landscape in which that problem plays out. To address this research gap, we analysed
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Evaluation of the Treatment Programme for Families with Children in Andalusia: An analysis of the impact on the children Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Yolanda Sánchez-Sandoval, Isabel López-Verdugo, Francisco Mielgo, Olga Gómez-Ortiz
The Treatment Programme for Families with Children in Andalusia is fundamentally aimed at promoting the integral development of children and adolescents through the strengthening of parental competences and family preservation strategies. In the last 20 years, this programme has been applied to over 75 000 families, involving about 150 000 children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to analyse
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The stark implications of abolishing child welfare: An alternative path towards support and safety Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Antonio R. Garcia, Jill Duerr Berrick, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Richard P. Barth, John R. Gyourko, Patricia Kohl, Johanna K. P. Greeson, Brett Drake, Victoria Cook
Scholars and advocates are at odds about how to achieve higher levels of child safety and permanency. Calls for change include the recent upEND focus on eradication of child welfare services to a radical refocusing of the present system towards prevention/early intervention. To clarify the implications of reform over abolition, we seek to portray a future in which the abolition of child welfare has
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Recruiting foster families for teenagers in Italy: Motivational elements, socio-demographic characteristics and availability factors Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Marco Giordano
According to government data, there is a slow decline in foster care in Italy, especially for teenagers, caused by an insufficient number of available foster families. The need to provide an intense stimulus to foster care is evident. This study conducted individual qualitative interviews with 126 foster parents of teenagers, transcribed and analysed using Atlas.ti software. Valuable indications for
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The impact of a new approach to family safeguarding in social care: Initial findings from an analysis of routine data Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Dulcie Irving, Ruta Buivydaite, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Steve Thomas, Hannah Farncombe, Rafael Perera-Salazar, Charles Vincent
Child safeguarding services intervene when a child is at risk of serious emotional or physical harm. Oxfordshire County Council is implementing a new approach to child safeguarding (Family Solutions Plus [FSP]) with a greater focus on whole family support and reducing the need for foster care. We sampled two cohorts of children closed within 1 year and examined the time spent in services. The sample
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‘The secret sauce’: Experience of a group-based intervention for Black and Latino fathers Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Julie A. Cederbaum, Lucinda Okine, William Monro, Bassam Albassam, Keith Parker, Danette McBride, Ferol E. Mennen
Fatherhood interventions have emerged as significant tools for strengthening father identity and parenting skills. Despite the growing evidence of the effectiveness and benefits of these interventions for fathers and their families, there are limited studies on fathers' and providers' perspectives and experiences with the implementation of father-based interventions. To fill this gap, we explore the
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Creating equilibrium: Four relational mechanisms that facilitate positive change Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jackie Sanders, Linda Liebenberg
This paper uses critical realism to identify mechanisms that activate successful relationships. It draws data from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study of youth who used multiple services. It examines functionality of four relational mechanisms: power, recognition, responsiveness and mutuality that lead to positive change and explores the implications of these for practice with youth with complex needs
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Family-centred practice and family outcomes in residential youth care: A systematic review Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Emily Tang, Amaranta D. de Haan, Chris H. Z. Kuiper, Annemiek T. Harder
Family-centred practice (FCP) has been suggested as a best practice for treating youth with emotional and behavioural difficulties in residential care. In this preregistered systematic review, we examined how FCP is operationalized and measured in residential youth care and which family outcomes are associated with FCP. Our systematic search in six databases identified 5784 articles. We analysed included
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An exploratory evaluation of a model of care for youth who are at risk of sexual exploitation and human trafficking Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Kyla P. McDonald, Riana Fisher, Jennifer Connolly
The sexual exploitation of children and youth remains a critical issue within the child welfare system, despite the limited availability of models of care to support these vulnerable individuals. The START with the YOUTH (STAR-Y) program adopts a preventative approach, offering personalized care and wraparound support to youth exhibiting at-risk behaviours. This paper employs a case study methodology
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‘Who's got my back?’: Worker safety in the context of domestic abuse Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Cathy Humphreys, Jasmin Isobe, Margaret Kertesz
The safety of practitioners working in the area of domestic abuse is a current subject of research and practice concern, as services endeavour to better understand constantly evolving tactics of violence and abuse and respond appropriately. This paper reports on a subset of findings from a practice-led research project focussed on capacity-building workers and their organizations to address domestic
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Issue Information Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Navigating risk: Young women's pathways through the care, education and criminal justice systems Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Birgit Larsson, Gillian Schofield, Laura Biggart, Emma Ward, Jane Dodsworth, Victoria Scaife
The criminalization of young women in care remains an important practice and policy issue in England despite 2018 national guidance and the subsequent development of local authority protocols to reduce the criminalization of care-experienced young people. This paper contributes to the emerging research on young women whose behaviour challenges professionals, through secondary analysis of case file
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Exploring moral injury among parents with children in out-of-home care Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Therése Wissö, Anna Melke, Irene Josephson
This article brings together the experiences of parents whose children are placed in out-of-home care (OHC) with the theoretical concept of moral injury. The findings are based on empirical data from a research and development project conducted in seven Swedish municipalities with the aim of developing support for such parents. This article draws on a data set of qualitative interviews with 40 parents
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An exploratory study of capacity to change at family level in families with adolescents experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Gabrijela Ratkajec Gašević, Dendy Platt
The context of this paper is family situations where young people are experiencing significant behavioural and emotional problems. Based on a qualitative study, it offers an empirical and theoretical contribution to the understanding of family-related factors that promote or hinder behaviour change. Data were collected through face-to-face, semi-structured group interviews with nine families (28 participants)
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Strategies to increase fathers' engagement in child protection investigations due to domestic partner abuse in Sweden Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Maria Grönte, Tina Mattsson, Lars Plantin
Social workers often fail to engage fathers in child protection investigations (CPIs), especially when they involve domestic abuse (DA) by fathers. The aim of this study is to examine the strategies used by social workers to achieve cooperation with fathers in CPIs that involve the father being suspected of DA against the child's mother. With the use of qualitative methods, we conducted 31 semi-structured
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Migrant community resource persons as bricoleurs of family support Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Sofie Vindevogel, Karolien Delaere, Joris Van Poucke
Families from migrant backgrounds are found to generally underutilize mainstream child and family support services and recourse more to their social networks and community-based actors for support. This article explores the role of migrant community resource persons (CRPs). Drawing on the novel concept of welfare bricolage, the study sought to unravel CRPs' take on family support and their position
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Pandemic mothering: Mothers' experiences of adaptation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Saltanat Childress, Catherine A. LaBrenz, Erin Findley
Research suggests that the demands of parenting have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for mothers. Widespread loss of childcare and in-person schooling forced parents to make adjustments to care for their children in new ways, many while working remotely. This qualitative study, guided by Walsh's theory of family resilience, examines mothers' experiences with stress and resilience
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‘There is not much we can do’: The roles and challenges of Nigeria's child protection social workers Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Stanley Oloji Isangha, Tosin Yinka Akintunde, Wai Man Anna Choi, Tam Cherry Hau Lin
Research on the challenges child protection social workers (CPSWs) face has increased remarkably in developed nations with the goal of finding sustainable solutions. There is a significant number of vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), yet little is documented and known about the role of CPSWs in supporting the children, and the challenges they face that must be addressed to ensure effective
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Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Steven Roche, Justin Barker, Debbie Noble-Carr
Experiences of family conflict are common in young people's accounts of homelessness, yet in-depth explorations and conceptualisations of these experiences remain sparse. Drawing on focus group discussions with 29 participants, this article explores the accounts of young people and carers and parents about the dynamics, interactions and characteristics of family conflict. Findings highlight the primacy
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A moderated mediation model of the relationship between adolescent screentime, online privacy cognitions and exposure to online substance marketing Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Erin Corcoran, Nathan Wydra, Nelsa Tejada, Shimei Nelapati, Joy Gabrielli
Adolescent exposure to substance-related marketing is associated with subsequent substance initiation and progression. The extent to which adolescents are exposed to such content may be associated with adolescent cognitions about digital privacy and media-specific parenting behaviours. The present study assesses whether the relationship between screentime and online marketing risk is mediated by adolescent
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‘Adoption is Kinda Hard and Kinda Cool’: Residential care children's views on adoption and preparation for adoption Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Isabel Fidalgo, Margarida R. Henriques
Preparing children for adoption is one of the major goals of the child welfare system. Research on adoption preparation has mainly focused on the perspective of adults, and studies addressing the views of children eligible for adoption are meagre. This study aimed to contribute to filling this gap by exploring the child's perspective on adoption and preparation for adoption. Twenty children aged 9–13 years
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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Kathleen Lynch
Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation). The pandemic challenged this liberal patriarchal paradigm; it placed the care relational lives of human beings centre stage in terms of social justice, not
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‘You have to go hunting for information’: Barriers to service utilization among expectant and parenting youth with experience in foster care Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Kalah M. Villagrana, Ann Turnlund Carver, Lynn C. Holley, Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya, Tonia Stott, Ramona Denby, Kristin M. Ferguson
Unique service needs exist for expectant or parenting youth with foster care histories (EPY) and their families. Informed by Critical Ecological Systems Theory (CEST), this exploratory qualitative study presents findings from an inductive content analysis of in-depth interviews and focus groups with EPY and service providers. The study included nine in-depth face-to-face interviews with service providers
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Organizational and service support for boys' pathways out of commercial sexual exploitation in Nepal: Key learning for an under-recognized population Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Xiaochen Zhou, Lucy P. Jordan, Patrick O'Leary
Boys are a group who experience commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) but are often less visible than girls with the same experience. There is limited evidence regarding the experiences of organizational support from the perspectives of boys with CSE experience. This study, conducted in Kathmandu, Nepal, adopted a mixed-method approach, combining data from actor mapping, survey, and in-depth case studies
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Navigating the Australian child protection system: The importance of formal and informal support for carers to effectively provide care to children in out-of-home care Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jemma Venables, Jenny Povey, Madonna Boman, Karen Healy, Janeen Baxter, Sophie Austerberry, Kate Thompson
Children in out-of-home care (OOHC) are a vulnerable group who often experience poorer outcomes than their peers who are not in OOHC. In 2020–2021, there were approximately 46 200 children in OOHC in Australia, with 91% in a family setting with foster or kinship carers. Data from other countries show similar patterns indicating that foster and kinship carers provide care for most children in OOHC.
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The outsider within: The agentic practices of Family Group Conference coordinators in the context of families with children at risk Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jordan Shaibe, Orna Shemer
Family Group Conference (FGC) is a participatory decision-making process for families with children at risk, for whom concerns were recognized by the family, the professionals and/or the community. In its initial stages, FGC is organized, and the families are accompanied, by independent coordinators. The study used a qualitative, action-oriented methodology to explore what practices coordinators use
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When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Inger Oterholm, Ingrid Höjer
Research highlights the importance of supportive relations for young people leaving care. Foster carers give an important contribution to such support. However, there is less knowledge about foster carers' views about the relational contact after the young person has aged out of care. This article explores foster carers' perspectives building on interviews with foster carers from both Norway and Sweden
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“Fighting the invisible system”: A grounded theory study of the experiences of child protection social workers in England Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Charlie Brazil, Lizette Nolte, Barbara Rishworth, Brian Littlechild
This article reports on an exploration of social workers' perspectives on the social policy and agency processes that shape their experiences of working in child protection services. A qualitative constructivist grounded theory methodology was employed, and 17 qualified social workers and managers were recruited. Social workers described working within an oppressive system, balancing unrealistic demands
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Fathers with intellectual disabilities raising children with disabilities in Poland: An interpretive phenomenological analysis Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Katarzyna Ćwirynkało, Monika Parchomiuk, Patricia Fronek
Research on parents with intellectual disabilities and their children tends to focus on individual risk and those factors associated with child maltreatment. Interviews and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore the lived experience of 10 Polish fathers with intellectual disabilities raising children with disabilities. Three main themes emerged: (1) everybody's got something,
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The role of parental aggravation in the intergenerational transmission of depression across different family structures Child & Family Social Work (IF 1.83) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Yangjin Park, Pa Thor, Sejung Yang
This study examined the role of parental aggravation in the pathway from maternal depression to child depression in different family structures. While studies have extensively examined the transmission of maternal depressive symptoms to children, there is still a limited emphasis on potential contributors, such as parental aggravation. Meanwhile, cohabiting and single-parent families are more vulnerable