Children in Need? Listening to Children whose Parent or Carer is HIV Positive

Tisdall, E. Kay M.; Kay, Helen; Cree, Viviene E.; Wallace, Jennifer

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch131

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“…Furthermore, the results indicate that children's coping strategies were similar for parental incarceration and parental HIV, which was shown by Tisdall et al [48]. Some participants received support from schools and social support groups, others maintained the parental issue as a secret, while others were open to talking, coping and obtaining support for the situation [48].…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Some participants received support from schools and social support groups, others maintained the parental issue as a secret, while others were open to talking, coping and obtaining support for the situation [48]. In addition, Jakobsen and Scharff Smith [8] and Murray et al [5] claimed that children were afraid of being stigmatized and tried address challenging situations alone without telling anybody.…”

Section: Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Children who have imprisoned parents often wanted to know the truth about the situation, regardless as to whether it is a disease or imprisonment [38,40,48,49]. Involvement and open discussion about the parent's situation appeared to improve children's coping.…”

Section: Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The present review found that schools as very resourceful and helpful for children's academic and personal improvement. However, there is a need for additional staff training and guidelines for working with children who have a parent in prison and the resulting situations [36,43], which was also stated in Tisdall et al's [48] findings.…”

Section: Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

Thulstrup¹,

Karlsson²

2017

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Children of imprisoned parents have a two times greater risk for health problems, including difficulties in their environment, academic and behavioural problems as well as social stigma. Focusing on children who have parents in prison has not been a priority for research. This review aims to describe current knowledge on children who have imprisoned parents in a global context and highlight areas for additional research. This review highlights the coping strategies that children of imprisoned parents use and explore interventions that exist to support children of imprisoned parents. This review employed a qualitative narrative synthesis. The database search yielded 1989 articles, of which 11 met inclusion and quality criteria. Stigmatizing children due to parental imprisonment was a widespread problem. Children's coping strategies included maintaining distance from the imprisoned parent, normalizing the parent's situation and taking better control over their lives through distraction, sports, supportive people and therapy. Children received the best support in school-based interventions or mentoring programmes. The overall low quality of the included studies indicates a need for further research.

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Section: Copingsupporting

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Section: Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interventionsmentioning

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Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

Thulstrup¹,

Karlsson²

2017

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“…Some participants received support from schools and social support groups, others maintained the parental issue as a secret, while others were open to talking, coping and obtaining support for the situation [48]. In addition, Jakobsen and Scharff Smith [8] and Murray et al [5] claimed that children were afraid of being stigmatized and tried to address challenging situations alone without telling anybody.…”

Section: Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

Thulstrup

Karlsson

2017

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Children of imprisoned parents have a two times greater risk of health problems, including difficulties in their environment, academic and behavioural problems as well as social stigma. Focusing on children who have parents in prison has not been a priority for research. This review aims to describe current knowledge on children who have imprisoned parents in a global context and highlight areas for additional research. This review highlights the coping strategies that children of imprisoned parents use and explores interventions that exist to support children of imprisoned parents. This review employed a qualitative narrative synthesis. The database search yielded 1989 articles, of which 11 met inclusion and quality criteria. Stigmatizing children due to parental imprisonment was a widespread problem. Children's coping strategies included maintaining distance from the imprisoned parent, normalizing the parent's situation and taking better control over their lives through distraction, sports, supportive people and therapy. Children received the best support in school-based interventions or mentoring programmes. The overall low quality of the included studies indicates a need for further research.

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Young caregiving and HIV in the UK: caring relationships and mobilities in African migrant families

Evans

2011

Population Space and Place

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young people and mothers valued supportive safe spaces within the community, the stigma surrounding HIV signifi cantly affected their ability to seek support. The paper identifi es security, privacy, independence, and social mobility as key dimensions of African young people's and mothers' imagined futures of 'home' and 'family'. ABSTRACT Recent research in Sub-Saharan Africa has revealed the importance of children's caring roles in families affected by HIV and AIDS.However, few studies have explored young caregiving in the context of HIV in the UK, where recently arrived African migrant and refugee families are adversely affected by the global epidemic. This paper explores young people's socio-spatial experiences of caring for a parent with HIV, based on qualitative research with 37 respondents in London and other urban areas in England. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with young people with caring responsibilities and mothers with HIV, who were predominantly African migrants, as well as with service providers. Drawing on their perspectives, the paper discusses the ways that young people and mothers negotiate the boundaries of young people's care work within and beyond homespace, according to norms of age, gender, generational relations, and cultural constructions of childhood. Despite close attachments within the family, the emotional effects of living with a highly stigmatised life-limiting illness, pressures associated with insecure immigration status, transnational migration, and low income undermined African mothers' and young people's sense of security and belonging to homespace. These factors also restricted their mobility and social participation in school/ college and neighbourhood spaces. While

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Children in Need? Listening to Children whose Parent or Carer is HIV Positive

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

Young caregiving and HIV in the UK: caring relationships and mobilities in African migrant families

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