Sustaining Families in the 21st Century: The Role of Grandparents

Woodbridge, Sandra

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“…These approaches can make a significant difference for children in need by offering advice, support, and strategies to parents experiencing stress (Ryden, 2005). Such approaches, should seek to engage all parents (Mockford & Barlow, 2004), include fathers where possible (for information on engaging father see Bayley, Wallace, & Choudhry, 2009), and recognise the increasing role that many grandparents play in raising children (see Woodbridge, 2008).…”

Section: Children With Behavioural Problems and Mental Illnessmentioning

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Working with Vulnerable Primary School Aged Children and their Families

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Boddy

2010

Journal of Social Inclusion

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Children's health and wellbeing in Australia is adversely affected by increasing disadvantage, social exclusion, and vulnerability, with numerous studies confirming the need for an improved societal response to the needs of children and their families. This review highlights the issues facing Australian primary school aged children and their families, and it examines approaches for working with those from diverse backgrounds who have varying health needs. While there are considerable gaps in the literature, findings echo some of the preventative messages from early childhood studies which suggest that neighbourhoods and communities play a crucial role in promoting children's health, wellbeing, and social inclusion through the middle years. Research further suggests that practitioners should engage in a holistic approach to children's health and welfare and offer support across multiple domains of development, giving attention to both cultural and contextual factors. This paper will conclude with some recommendations for future research and a discussion about the implications for practice. Keywords: primary school aged children, key issues, community interventions, programs, approaches Children's health and wellbeing in Australia is adversely affected by increasing disadvantage, social exclusion, and vulnerability (Australian Institute of Health and Family Welfare [AIHW], 2009). The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) indicated that children in Australia fall significantly below average on many key indicators compared to other OECD countries (ARACY, 2008), and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) expressed concern around a number of issues including: child homelessness, child abuse and neglect, bullying, and escalating rates of childhood obesity and diabetes (AIHW, 2009). Such issues are compounded in disadvantaged areas by limited interventions for working with primary school aged children, and thus Australian studies were prioritised. However, if relevant to the Australian context, studies from other countries were used. Articles were limited to those written in the last ten years unless they were a seminal work or had particular relevance to this topic. A number of academic databases were searched electronically, including Informit

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Section: Children With Behavioural Problems and Mental Illnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working with Vulnerable Primary School Aged Children and their Families

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Boddy

2010

Journal of Social Inclusion

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Section: Children With Behavioural Problems and Mental Illnessmentioning

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Boddy

2010

JOSI

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A review of the Australian literature on key principles, issues, and community level approaches Children's health and wellbeing in Australia is adversely affected by increasing disadvantage, social exclusion, and vulnerability, with numerous studies confirming the need for an improved societal response to the needs of children and their families. This review highlights the issues facing Australian primary school aged children and their families, and it examines approaches for working with those from diverse backgrounds who have varying health needs. While there are considerable gaps in the literature, findings echo some of the preventative messages from early childhood studies which suggest that neighbourhoods and communities play a crucial role in promoting children's health, wellbeing, and social inclusion through the middle years. Research further suggests that practitioners should engage in a holistic approach to children’s health and welfare and offer support across multiple domains of development, giving attention to both cultural and contextual factors. This paper will conclude with some recommendations for future research and a discussion about the implications for practice.

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“…A sociedade contemporânea, principalmente nas diversas formações e arranjos familiares mais complexos, em decorrências de divórcios ou novas uniões, tem modificado os significados e as atividades exercidas pelos avós ao longo do tempo, passando do papel meramente simbólico para a grande participação no dia a dia da família. 47,48,49 O papel desenvolvido pelos avós em cada família é baseado nas relações com filhos e netos, nas suas próprias experiências, nos significados atribuídos a si e seu papel, bem como nas demandas e expectativas da família. O suporte varia de acordo com essas demandas, variando desde suporte social e instrumental, e durante situações de crise, assumem a tarefa de estabilizar e dar suporte ao neto e a família.…”

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“…O suporte varia de acordo com essas demandas, variando desde suporte social e instrumental, e durante situações de crise, assumem a tarefa de estabilizar e dar suporte ao neto e a família. 47,48 As avós são consideravelmente mais presentes na vida do neto, no cuidado, oferecendo suporte à vida diária; já os avôs, geralmente, oferecem maior suporte instrumental, especialmente no aspecto financeiro. Há também maior participação dos avós maternos, devido à maior proximidade e às necessidades da mãepessoa que geralmente realiza a maior parte dos cuidados à criança.…”

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“…Os pais sentem-se mais seguros com a presença e o auxílio dos avósespecialmente no que tange aos cuidados da criança. 47,49 A maior presença das avós também foi percebida em nossa pesquisa, em que 7 participantes eram do sexo feminino e apenas 2 do sexo masculinoassim como a maior presença de avós maternas, reforçando a literatura a respeito da proximidade com a mãe, sua filha, que frequentemente desempenha a figura do acompanhante no cenário hospitalar.…”

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A experiência dos avós de crianças hospitalizadas em unidade de terapia intensiva pediátrica

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The admission of a child to an intensive care unit imposes an overload on parents, siblings and other family members. Stress is experienced by all, and it interferes in personal relationships and can lead to changes in family routines, by illness and by the environment of intensive care. Nurses who work with children know that providing support and information to parents is important, but they are still shy about considering the needs of grandparents, who also need support and need to be considered by professionals, since grandparents' Care has been increasingly present in Brazilian families. In our reality, there is still a small movement of researchers to approach the third generation of the family when a child is ill. Therefore, the objective of this study is to understand, from the perspective of the grandparents, the experience of having a grandchild hospitalized in a pediatric intensive care unit -PICU. This is a qualitative study that used the theoretical framework of Symbolic Interactionism and the assumptions of the Grounded Theory as a methodological framework. Nine grandparents of children hospitalized in a PICU of a school hospital of a University of the interior of São Paulo were interviewed. Data were collected through semistructured interviews. The interviews were recorded and transcribed in full right after their completion, and analyzed in a comparative and constant analises, as recommended by the Grounded Theory. Through the process of analysis, performed through the open and axial coding, it was possible to identify two phenomena: PERCEIVING THEMSELVES INVOLVED IN A STORM, which comprehend the intense and multiplied suffering experienced by the grandparents, and represents the demands of the grandparents in amid to the grandson's critical ill. The second, STRIVING TO BE AN ANCHOR FOR THE FAMILY, represents the grandparents' response at the first phenomenon, includes the role that the grandparents attribute to themselves, the support and stabilization of the family, as well as their movement to gather strengths and resources to give to do this role. Grandparents carry a burden during the grandchild's hospitalization experience, evidenced by their need to demonstrate strength, maintaining a supporting role and not sharing their own suffering with other family members, so as not to overwhelm others who are already suffering but, thus overload themselves. Suffer by an absence of external resources to atend their own demands, Which, when left unattended, threaten the role played. Professionals need to adopt the concept of child and family-centered care in its broadest way, including grandparents.

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Sustaining Families in the 21st Century: The Role of Grandparents

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