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This study from the Institutionalised Children: Explorations and Beyond Special Issue on Aftercare was conducted on 47 young adults, between the ages of 17 and 29 years in 2017–2018. The sample represents a vulnerable population of children who grow up in various government and non-government child care institutions of New Delhi, India. The Juvenile Justice Act (2015) of India ordains for ‘aftercare’, which includes support and services in the domains of education, housing, skill development and vocational training,…
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Aftercare is an essential element in the life after institutionalised care for a child. A good aftercare programme ensures that the children are given a chance at living a normal life. Children in institutionalised care are often discriminated and abused for their background. During their time in such institutions, they are generally shielded from such abuse but in the real world, having such a background creates many hurdles for children. Consequently, aftercare forms an integral part of a child in institutionalised care. The United Nations is the nodal body within the…
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The urgent need to strengthen the child protection system in India is presented in the context of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme and relevant juvenile justice legislation. Although the whole system is discussed, from national to local levels, the emphasis is on systems development with a comprehensive social work education response. Included are recommendations to develop a professional association of social work educators and the need for national accreditation of social work education in India. A multi-system analysis with a child rights orientation of child protection…
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Introduction: Even though children in orphanages experience's multifaceted psychosocial problems, limited research has focused on psychological protective factors that can lessen the effect of orphanhood.
Aim: To examine associations between mindfulness and psychological factors (i.e., depression, cognitive function, positive emotion, and negative emotion) among adolescent orphans.
Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive correlation study and 140 orphan children living in three orphan homes, Tamil Nadu, India were recruited. Study's instruments…
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This paper deals with the design and development procedures involved in child protection practices in India. To design the logical structure of the database which is the caricature of this verification system, entity relationship diagrams have been used and implemented. The development procedure uses open-source database connectivity with the sole motive of creating a verification system which is open, robust, secure, and encrypted and contains integrity as well as referential constraints. The data background search (DBS) database has been designed and developed with the primary…
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This paper brings to fore the need to compile an accurate and comprehensive database for children living in institutional care. It addresses key issues like defining institutional care, identifying the various reasons behind children coming to live in institutional care and providing estimates pertaining to the number of children living in institutional care. It further explains why it is necessary to have a definite count of the number of children living in institutional care. The main reason being that unless these children are identified, no definite plan for provision of…
Udayan Care launched an academic journal, Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB), in 2014. This 10th issue of the journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’ The issue includes research studies, legal and policy perspectives, case studies, desk reviews, opinion pieces, international perspectives, interviews with experts from the field, good models and best practices, and movie and book reviews.
The issue features an interview with a care-leaver from Sri Lanka who grew up in institutions…
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Background: In India menstruation is generally considered as unclean. Orphanage girls are vulnerable group in our society. The unfailing support and a constant check of orphan girls during menstruation are usually absent. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and practices regarding menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls residing in selected orphanages of Haryana.
Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted on 150 adolescent girls residing in selected orphanages of Haryana. Purposive sampling technique was used to…
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Orphanages are a vulnerable group in any socio-economic setting simply because they are deprived of one or both of their primary care givers. The level of vulnerability they face however increases significantly with the level of poverty. The practice of placing deprived children having minimum or no emotional and material resources, in orphanages has since long been prevailing in socio-economically poor Asian countries.
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To assess the nutritional status of children residing at an orphanage.
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A cross…
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Background: Adolescence, a psychologically vulnerable stage of life, when coupled with stressful environment such as institutional homes, may result in high psychiatric morbidity. These psychiatric disorders including depression are detrimental to the psychological development in adolescents. Aims and Objectives: The objectives of the study were to describe and study the extent of depression in adolescent boys and girls living in institutional homes and to study the association between depression and externalizing and…