Disconnection and Dislocation: Relationships and Belonging in Unstable Foster and Institutional Care: Table 1

Skoog, Viktoria; Khoo, Evelyn; Nygren, Lennart

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcu033

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“…(Alexandra, age 16) In general, the young people did not express that they missed their social worker after the custody transfer. (Skoog et al, 2015). In our data, both custodians and young people generally acknowledge macro dimensions of parenting practices (Lewis & Welsh, 2005) Our findings suggest that social workers can serve as "co-parent";…”

Section: The Role Of the Social Worker In Shared Parentingmentioning

confidence: 56%

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What is a family? Constructions of family and parenting after a custody transfer from birth parents to foster parents

Wissö

Johansson

Höjer

2018

Child & Family Social Work

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The subject of stability for children in long-term foster care is an emerging field within social work with vulnerable children. In Sweden, the adoption of foster children is not a common occurrence. Instead, when a child has been placed in foster care for 3 years, the local social welfare committee will consider whether the custody of the child should be transferred to the foster parents regardless of the circumstances of the birth parents, in order to secure stability and a sense of family belonging. Consequently, custody transfers raise questions such as "who is family?" and "who is a parent?" This qualitative interview study with custodians and young people who have experienced custody transfer highlights that who counts as family and as a parent is ambiguous. This article draws attention to how negotiations about family and parenthood revolve around biological, emotional, and relational dimensions. Furthermore, we show that stability for children in care has to be understood in terms of processes over time and not as the result of a single decision of custody transfer. Consequently, social workers need to take several aspects into account when they assess family belonging and stability for children in foster care. KEYWORDScontact with birth relatives, empirical research, foster care, parenting/parenthood, social work

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Section: The Role Of the Social Worker In Shared Parentingmentioning

confidence: 56%

“…Consequently, foster care in Sweden can be described as a "three-part" parenthood, shared by birth parents, social workers, and caregivers (Skoog, Khoo, & Nygren, 2015). A custodian is a person who is responsible for a child's personal situation and decides on various matters relating to the child.…”

Section: Custody Transfers In Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is a family? Constructions of family and parenting after a custody transfer from birth parents to foster parents

Wissö

Johansson

Höjer

2018

Child & Family Social Work

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“…The centrality of the worker-client relationship has been consistently stressed in studies that have directly engaged children and young people in residential care (Augsberger & Swenson, 2015;Coady, 2014;B. Gallagher & Green, 2012;Gallant, 2003;Harder, Knorth, & Kalverboer, 2013;McLeod, 2010;Skoog, Khoo, & Nygren, 2015;Soldevila et al, 2013;Ward, Skuse, & Munro, 2005) 2 . These studies have stressed the importance that children and young people place on strong, reliable, consistent and enduring relationships with trusted workers and the therapeutic value of doing so (Schofield et al, 2016).…”

Section: Fostering Safe Trustworthy Accessible and Responsive Relatmentioning

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Safe and Sound: Exploring the safety of young people in residential care

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McArthur²,

Roche³

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“…However, we cannot say unquestionably that the care placement itself causes these kinds of poor outcomes. The complexity of children's life experiences prior to coming into contact with the child welfare system together with new challenges while in the system interact in multifaceted ways which social workers must consider so that interventions such as out of home placements do not become one stop solutions (Skoog, Khoo, and Nygren 2015). Families with many and often complex needs may be experiencing numerous, ongoing and interrelated problems that do not respond easily to standardised processes or lend themselves to simple or quick solutions.…”

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Social work and the management of complexity in Swedish child welfare services

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Nygren

Khoo

2018

Nordic Social Work Research

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This paper elucidates how Swedish child welfare social workers manage complexity co-occuring in the families with which they work and the organisational contexts of practice. Focus groups were held with social workers in three municipalities in Sweden who described work processes generally and in response to a fictitious vignette. The vignette was constructed as a complex family situation to explore how social workers approach complexity when faced with a family with complex needs. Findings showed that social workers are challenged in their everyday work where they are aware of the many needs in a family. They focus on immediate conditions for children while recognising that some problems are less amenable to being solved. However they try to manage complexities related to families as well as the structural conditions of work by sorting, prioritising and oscillating between a child focus and a family service orientation. This paper serves as a necessary reminder of the complexity of social work in the broader area of child welfare and raises further questions about the use of comparative typologies to explain social work practices

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Disconnection and Dislocation: Relationships and Belonging in Unstable Foster and Institutional Care: Table 1

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

What is a family? Constructions of family and parenting after a custody transfer from birth parents to foster parents

What is a family? Constructions of family and parenting after a custody transfer from birth parents to foster parents

Safe and Sound: Exploring the safety of young people in residential care

Social work and the management of complexity in Swedish child welfare services

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