The conditions imposed by the Covid-19 outbreaks forced residential care (RC) facilities to experience new challenges and to adopt new practices. The aim of the current study is to analyze how RC facilities have experienced and managed confinement during the 1st wave of the pandemic. A thematic analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals responsible for managing crisis in RC facilities. The main implications of the confinement measures on RC dynamics and relations were organized in three major themes: Chaos, novelty and organization; reinventing normalization and deconfinement. The pandemic exposes the structural weaknesses of RC, namely mobility of human resources, scarcity of supportive networks, and fragilities in providing comprehensive and integrative care. These factors need to be considered when addressing risk/vulnerability and discussing best practices and policies on child/youth welfare domain. Future studies should explore representations of important key actors as youth, families and other professionals from youth care.

Background Children and youth residential care institutions were forced to introduce adaptations to their regular functioning in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic challenges. Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the lockdown on the adolescents’ psychological adjustment and whether adolescents’ perceived cohesion mitigated the increase of adolescents` psychological adjustment problems. Participants Participants were 243 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years, living in 21 different residential care institutions. Results The results suggested a moderating role of cohesion on the stability of adolescents’ emotional distress across time. Lower levels of cohesion were related with higher emotional distress stability across time. On the contrary, as cohesion increased, the association between adolescents’ emotional distress at T0 and T1 decreased. Discussion Results are discussed considering the mechanisms raised by the institutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and minimize the negative effects on the psychological adjustment of adolescents living in residential care.

negative influence associated with work, such as stress and burnout. NPE has a positive indirect effect in JS through team/work group cohesion, multidisciplinarity, lack of organizational resources/constraints, working conditions/increased workload, labor discrimination, benefits and rewards, lack of clarity in nurses' responsabilities, patients and doctors' perceptions, poor leadership skills, promotion and professional development opportunities, distributive justice, negative affectivity. Nurses' JS is strongly associated with NPE, which is the main factor that affects JS. NPE factors have an indirect positive effect on JS through several variables. Additionally, NPE characteristics have a significant influence on burnout and quality of care and, together with JS, on nurses' intention to leave [2,4,5,7].

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