Placing Adolescents in Families

Fallon, Michael J.; McKenna, Mary; Waring, Paul; Wilson, G. F.; Thom, Maureen; Giltinan, Donal

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“…We also suspect that there is another major reason: that for the young people concerned finding permanency conflicted with some of the major psychosocial tasks of adolescence: to establish a degree of autonomy from parental and quasi-parental figures, with the necessary life-skills that this implies, and to begin to think of adult sexual attachments, and possibly of the new family units that might arise from these (cf. Jurich, 1979;Hipgrave, 1983;Fallon et al, 1983). Although our sample is very small, it seemed to be more than coincidence that the only two permanent placements which really worked both involved young people who were not into adolescence when they entered Daisybank, and were still not into adolescence when they left, and were in fact both 2 years younger on leaving than the mean average age of the other young people.…”

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Daisybank 1983–1989. An audit of a residential home preparing adolescents for permanent placements

Levinson¹,

Minty²

1992

Journal of Adolescence

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This paper describes the evaluation of a small children's home, Daisybank, set up to prepare adolescents, who had been in care for several years, to live in permanent placements. The home seemed largely to fail in this explicit task, but appear to succeed in helping a majority of its residents make substantial progress in coming to terms with their deprived and disrupted lives. It provided them with genuine care and commitment, which they acknowledged and appreciated. We believe that the success of the home needs to be judged by these criteria, since for young people in mid‐ to late adolescence the search for new permanent parental homes probably conflicted with other psychosocial tasks relating to adolescence. On the other hand, Daisybank seemed unable adequately to resolve the problems of a subgroup of adolescent males with serious conduct problems who were responsible for the not infrequent physical abuse of several female staff.

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Daisybank 1983–1989. An audit of a residential home preparing adolescents for permanent placements

Levinson¹,

Minty²

1992

Journal of Adolescence

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“…Permanence planning was being pursued in some areas of Scotland by 1980 (Lindsay Smith, 1979;McKay, 1980); different aspects were soon being examined, such as the timing of introductions (Kerrane, 1979), use of adoption allowances (Hill and Triseliotis, 1986;Triseliotis and Hill, 1987), placements of children with disabilities (Macaskill, 1988) and post-placement and post-adoption support services (O'Hara, 1986;Triseliotis, 1988;Hoggan, 1991;Lambert et al, 1992). Outcomes were increasingly considered (Fallon et al, 1983;Triseliotis, 1985;O'Hara and Hoggan, 1988;Hill et al, 1988;Borland et al, 1991).…”

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