Fremdplatziert. Heimerziehung in der Schweiz, 1940–1990

Hauss, Gisela; Gabriel, Thomas; Lengwiler, Martin

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“…As part of National Research Programme 51, 'Integration and Exclusion ' (2003-2007) 9 , research projects explored the history of Social Work models and practices of intervention (Matter, 2011;Schnegg, 2007); social welfare (Frauenfelder et al, 2008); welfare practices and eugenics (Ritter et al, 2009;Ziegler et al, 2012); coercion in psychiatry (Meier et al, 2007); the exclusion of the Yenish people (Huonker, 2009;Huonker & Ludi et al, 2009;Jäger et al, 2004); and the stigmatizing effect of (case) files (Galle & Meier, 2009). These were followed by further projects at national, cantonal or regional level on indentured child labour-ers and other forms of out-of-home placement (Businger & Ramsauer et al, 2019;Gnädinger & Rothenbühler et al, 2018;Hauss et al, 2018;Leuenberger et al, 2011;Ries & Beck et al, 2013;Rietmann, 2013). 10 The research findings publicly revealed the deficiencies of welfare practice and of the institutions, as well as the suffering experienced by those affected.…”

Section: The History Of Social Work: Welfare and Coercionmentioning

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Social Work in Switzerland

Moergen,

Vogel Campanello

2023

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What form does Social Work take in Switzerland, and what are the current discourses? This article aims to trace academic and political developments in the analysis of coercive care in Switzerland. In a spirit of scientific self-observation, it will also reflect critically on the role of Social Work as a force of normalization and of the imposition of norms, as well as contextualizing it within current discourses. Looking back into the past makes it possible to expose arbitrary welfare practices that have violated people’s integrity; at the same time, it can reveal processes of professionalization and, linked with these, the development of work methods. The problems confronting Social Work have to do with the tension self-determination and external control, and interventions in the lives of those affected require a particularly high level of legitimation.

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Section: The History Of Social Work: Welfare and Coercionmentioning

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Social Work in Switzerland

Moergen,

Vogel Campanello

2023

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“…To answer our questions, we interviewed people who spent most of their childhood in a residential care home between 1950 and 1990 1 . These qualitative life‐course‐perspectives were identified in the context of the Swiss National Science Foundation‐financed project ‘Placing Children in Care: Child Welfare in Switzerland (1940 2 –1990)’ (Hauss, Gabriel, & Lengwiler, 2018). This was the first study to provide a comprehensive view of Swiss residential childcare in the second half of the 20th century with different subprojects and approaches.…”

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Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century

Keller

Gabriel

Bombach

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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Research on institutional care and its long‐term effect on life trajectories provides crucial and sometimes unexpected insights. In a qualitative study in Switzerland, we have conducted 37 narrative interviews with people who experienced residential care between 1950 and 1990. The analysis was based on a reconstructive life course perspective and grounded theory. The findings show a complex interplay of residential care context (here: narratives from expert discourses) and intersubjective experiences during and after care. Most interviewees learned from their experiences to be sceptical of social relationships and of all kinds of state interventions—even decades after having left. A few were able to take charge of their lives and steer them in an individually successful direction. In these cases too, results point to fragile concepts of success. Thus, critical questions about residential care in these decades remain. We suggest that rather than abolish residential care facilities, we need to gather more evidence about the factors that contribute to high‐quality out‐of‐home‐placements. As professional settings, they can enable young people individually. They need to avoid responding to children as ‘objects of care’, by neglecting all subjective dimensions and reproducing a pattern of powerlessness with a strong focus on formal, measurable goals.

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“…(Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [SNF], 2021). This effort is part of a reconciliation process and represents a societal-level recognition of the problematic history of coerced welfare practices in Switzerland before the law reform in 1981: Many of the child welfare policies and practices in Switzerland before the law reform in 1981 1 were rather invasive and were exercised under a legal context that sometimes threatened the integrity and basic human rights (see Hauss et al, 2018). Formally, these practices were referred to as "Compulsory Social Measures and Placements. "…”

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The LifeStories project: Empowering voices and avoiding harm—Ethics protocol of a long-term follow-up study of individuals placed in infant care institutions in Switzerland

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Little empirical data exist to guide ethical decisions when conducting research with vulnerable populations. The current study assesses a protocol designed to mitigate risks in a population-based cohort of 246 individuals placed in care institutions as infants in a non-selective 60-year follow-up. In total, 116 (47%) individuals chose to participate, of whom 53 (55%) reported positive effects of participation such as the opportunity to fill some gaps in their life stories, to better deal with their past, and to understand previous family dynamics. Only three individuals (2.5%) explicitly reported negative short-term consequences such as feeling upset as a result of thinking about stressful times, but they nonetheless rated the usefulness of the study as high. For six participants (5%), psychological counseling sessions were initiated as a support measure. Our findings suggest that risk of harm can be managed with a rigorous ethics protocol when conducting research with a vulnerable cohort and therefore enable the voices of survivors to be heard. A step wise approach in which increasing amounts of information were presented at each step, clearly operationalized passive decline, and direct and consistent contact with highly trained staff were considered key to mitigating distress.

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Fremdplatziert. Heimerziehung in der Schweiz, 1940–1990

Cited by 11 publications

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Social Work in Switzerland

Social Work in Switzerland

Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century

The LifeStories project: Empowering voices and avoiding harm—Ethics protocol of a long-term follow-up study of individuals placed in infant care institutions in Switzerland

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