Beyond the Silence: Emotional Experiences of Adolescents in Foster Care

Mampane, Mmathebe; Ross, Eleanor

doi:10.25159/2415-5829/2140

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“…This support echoes the ndings from studies conducted by Durlak et Moving into psychoeducational support, community-based organizations are actively involved in educating OVC on a range of topics, including gender-based violence, health, different forms of abuse, peer pressure, and self-esteem. These ndings resonate with the research conducted by Mampane (2017) and Durlak et al (2010), highlighting that community social support programs encompass life skills programs to develop vital social and personal skills.…”

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Approaches for Psychosocial Support Towards Orphans and Vulnerable Children by Community-based Workers in the Vhembe District, South Africa

Matshepete,

Makhado,

Mashau

2024

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Introduction: The OVC crisis has raised the need for alternative solutions to OVC's problems. These new alternatives gave prominence to the growth of CBOs and their interventions. Community-based interventions are a crucial component of the response to make sure components of the response to ensure that the demands of OVCs are mitigated as they offer initial support and act as well-being nets. Methods: A qualitative exploratory-descriptive design was used to explore possible approaches to psychosocial support for OVC from community workers. This study was conducted in four municipalities of Vhembe district: Thulamela, Makhado, Collins Chabane and Musina. The population consisted of community workers working with AIDS-vulnerable and orphaned children in the Vhembe district. Data were collected in focus group discussions with community staff using a focus group discussion guide with open-ended questions. The data were analysed according to Tesch’s open data analysis guide to analyse qualitative data. The measures to ensure trustworthiness included transferability, conformability, credibility, and dependability. Results: Analysis data generated the following theme and subthemes: Psychosocial interventions provided Physical support, educational support, psycho-educational support, activities and socialisation, caregivers support and involvement and inter-professional referral. Conclusion: Community - based organisations are providing psychosocial support interventions to OVC. Conversely, the study also revealed that community –based organisations are experiencing challenges when delivering those services to OVC.

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Approaches for Psychosocial Support Towards Orphans and Vulnerable Children by Community-based Workers in the Vhembe District, South Africa

Matshepete,

Makhado,

Mashau

2024

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“…Further, when the services of children living with HIV are strengthened, it suggests that the gap identified by the UNAIDS (2020) asserting that children are left behind in HIV services will also be addressed. This means that children can be enrolled in programmes for children living with HIV which are provided by the community volunteers which provides psychosocial support, homework assistance, HIV adherence programmes, HIV programmes specifically attended by children living with HIV, HIV support groups, home visits, linking children to care, and food/nutrition services (Visser, Zungu, and Ndala-Magoro, 2015;Mampane 2017;Busza, et al, 2018). Similarly, this will contribute to the 2030 HIV UNAIDS vision of an HIV free generation, which is also adopted by South African government.…”

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“…However, social workers are continually being accused of not providing appropriate supervision in foster care placements, and particularly criticized when the foster care placement involves children living with HIV (Boning and Ferreira, 2013). There are findings from previous studies which indicate that some children in foster care experience challenges such as not knowing their social workers or only seeing them during reviews of their foster care placement after two years or more (Mampane and Ross, 2017).…”

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The roles of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa

Gutura,

Khosa

2023

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This paper discusses the role of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa. A literature review was undertaken of 14 qualitative studies conducted in South Africa from 2012-2022. The review showed the prominent role played by social workers in foster care, despite factors which hindered service such as high caseloads, lack of knowledge on HIV and prioritisation of quantity over quality. Hence, several challenges were faced by foster carers. The studies also revealed that community volunteers were providing services to children living with HIV through linking them to care and providing educational support. The literature shows that the challenges faced by foster care parents and their children mostly resulted of social workers’ inability to provide comprehensive services. Community volunteers offered services where social workers were constrained. This paper concludes that social workers should work in collaboration with community volunteers to cater to the limitations facing the social work workforce in providing services to foster care parents and children living with HIV.

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“…Social workers stated that they rely extensively on school and teachers to assess, monitor and report on the child's academic progress and wellbeing over the period of supervision. The schools serve as a detection mechanism for problems in children's placements (Mampane & Ross, 2017). Social workers in government and NGOs conducted office interviews with the client and child or children concerned, when they could not obtain all the information they required during the home visit.…”

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Foster Care: Yes or No? The Decision-Making Processes of Social Workers Rendering Foster Care Services

Naicker¹,

Botha

2023

SWORK

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Decisions made by social workers play a crucial role in foster care. Despite the challenging conditions under which social workers work in South Africa, they continue to make decisions to place children in foster care. There is a lack of research on the decision-making processes of social workers rendering foster care services. A need to understand what decisions are made and how these decisions are made prompted this study. A qualitative approach was applied using the multiple case study design, with explorative, descriptive and contextual designs. Most social workers make decisions using a mix of intuition and empirical evidence, justifying the child's best interest as the basis for their decisions. This study contributes to the knowledge of the decision-making processes of social workers rendering foster care services. This knowledge can enable social workers to be consciously aware of their own decision-making processes during all the phases of rendering foster care services, facilitating transparent decision-making, with the best outcome for the foster child and his/her biological and foster family.

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Beyond the Silence: Emotional Experiences of Adolescents in Foster Care

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Approaches for Psychosocial Support Towards Orphans and Vulnerable Children by Community-based Workers in the Vhembe District, South Africa

Approaches for Psychosocial Support Towards Orphans and Vulnerable Children by Community-based Workers in the Vhembe District, South Africa

The roles of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa

Foster Care: Yes or No? The Decision-Making Processes of Social Workers Rendering Foster Care Services

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