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The meaning of care in residential child care is under-developed. It can often be represented through its absence, seen as offering at best basic physical tending but lacking emotional connection or warmth. At worst, residential care settings said to be institutionally abusive can be characterised as being antithetical to what we might imagine care should be. Residential schools and especially those run by religious orders attract particular opprobrium in this regard.
In this article, the author adopts a broadly autoethnographic approach to reflect on how boys (now men in their late 40s…
10% of children worldwide live in households without a biological parent, and 5.4 million children live in residential care institutions. This study describes a participatory, child-informed process of developing a multidimensional measure of child subjective well-being tailored towards the priorities of children who have lived in residential care.
Eight focus groups were held with n = 49 adolescents reunified with family after living in residential care in Kenya and Guatemala and six focus groups were held with n = 29 young adults who had lived in residential care during…
The fourth book in the UN book series Behavioral Science in the Global Arena is entitled Children Around the World: The Future of Our Earth continues the focus on issues of major international importance. This book is based on these three principles
- Focus on most important pressing issues,
- is multidiscipline with authors who are psychologists, social workers, medical doctors, and NGO leaders, and
- chapters are co-authored by well-known experts and new professionals or graduate students.
The Unified Protocol (UP) is a flexible, transdiagnostic form of cognitive behavioral therapy that effectively treats diverse psychiatric conditions in children, adolescents and adults. However, the UP has not been rigorously evaluated among children who have experienced severe trauma and may have limited caregiver involvement in their life.
The present research project was a single arm, open trial examining the feasibility of utilizing the UP within a residential treatment facility in Calgary, Canada for children involved with child welfare authorities who often have limited caregiver…
This study demonstrates the need for participatory recordkeeping to promote the right of children and young people placed in Swedish residential care homes to record-making, to facilitate access to a complete record of their placements. It is further through record-making that the experiences of the placed individuals can be used to inform practice and policymaking.
Currently, the placed individuals’ experiences of the residential homes are captured at the discretion of the residential homeowners and the social workers. A rights-based archival and recordkeeping paradigm would…
Objective:
This study aims to compare adolescent and caregiver reports of adolescent ACEs and their relationship with current adolescent depression and to analyze the relationship between ACEs and depression.
Methods:
The authors recruited 46 adolescent-caregiver dyads from a large inner city medical center's adolescent medicine clinic. Adolescents and caregivers completed the Center for Youth Wellness ACE questionnaire, encompassing traditional ACEs (e.g., abuse, neglect, household dysfunction) and non-traditional ACEs (e.g., foster care, parental death, exposure to…
Youth in residential care typically experience significant losses during their childhood, which often result in grief. The presence of supportive adults who acknowledge these losses has been found to be a significant protective factor for youth in residential care.
Residential youth workers consistently interact with the children they support; thus, they have a unique opportunity to address children’s losses and associated grief. This project uses a mixed methods design to explore how residential youth workers conceptualize and account for grief and loss. Specifically, the authors explore…
Foaia de parcurs pentru încetarea plasamentului copiilor din grupa de vârstă 0-6 ani în îngrijire rezidențială este un instrument care asigură toate componentele îngrijirii protectoare ale copilului: sănătate, alimentație adecvată, îngrijire, siguranță și educație timpurie, prin colaborarea intersectorială dintre Ministerul Muncii și Protecției Sociale, Ministerului Sănătății, Ministerul Educației și Cercetării și autoritățile administrației publice locale.
O coordonare mai eficientă și o consolidare a eforturilor comune pentru implementarea politicilor în toate cele trei domenii va…
The Road Map for ending the placement of children aged 0-6 years in residential care is a tool that ensures all components of child protective care: health, adequate nutrition, care, safety and early education, through the intersectoral collaboration between the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Research and local public administration authorities.
More effective coordination and consolidation of joint efforts for policy implementation in all three areas will contribute to the achievement of the EU-Moldova Association Agenda…
Ten percent of children worldwide live in households without a biological parent, and 5.4 million children live in residential care institutions. This study describes a participatory, child-informed process of developing a multidimensional measure of child subjective well-being tailored towards the priorities of children who have lived in residential care.
Eight focus groups were held with n = 49 adolescents reunified with family after living in residential care in Kenya and Guatemala and six focus groups were held with n = 29 young adults who had lived in residential care…