The Contribution of Supportive Relationships to Care-leaving Outcomes: A Longitudinal Resilience Study in South Africa

Breda, Adrian D. van

doi:10.1080/13575279.2022.2037516

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“…9 andRogers, 2020;Sekibo, 2020;van Breda and Frimpong-Manso, 2020;van Breda, Munro et al, 2020;Glynn and Mayock, 2021;Taylor, D.J. et al, 2021;Harrison et al, 2022;Mendes et al, 2022;Stubbs et al, 2022;van Breda, 2022;Alderson et al, 2023;Okpych et al, 2023;Schelbe, 2023. Cunningham andDiversi, 2013;Havlicek et al, 2013;Gypen et al, 2017;Munro, 2019;Courtney, 2022.…”

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What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care

Appleton

2024

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The EPDF and EPUB are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This publication was supported by the University of Essex's open access fund. How do young people transitioning from care plan their future lives? Planning is usually thought of as requiring clear goals and ‘future orientation’, but how might planning be regarded by young people whose wishes, hopes and plans have been repeatedly dashed? In this book Peter Appleton builds on research interviews with care-experienced young adults, and on cross-disciplinary theories of planning and of emotions, to develop a creative and non-dogmatic three-aspects model of planning for young people leaving care. A valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and educators, this book puts forward a powerful case to think more broadly and flexibly about transition planning with care-leavers, placing the voices of young people at its heart.

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“…Batty et al, 2022. Almquist et al, 2020and see Wang et al, 2023;andsee Steine et al, 2017. van Breda andvan Breda andPinkerton, 2020. See Patterson et al, 2023 for a contextual account of broader challenges for African urban youth.…”

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What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care

Appleton

2024

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“…This included the important roles that youth leaving care play in each other's lives, as mentors and providers of practical and emotional support in the context of adversity and youth oppression. Widening that supportive bond to encompass others who recognize care-leavers as fellow citizens with needs and rights to be supported can help to fill the gaps in careleavers' social and support networks (Van Breda, 2022;Frimpong-Manso, 2018;Macdonald et al, 2020;Oosterom & Sumberg, 2021;).…”

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Youth in Transition: Exploring a Life Course Perspective on Leaving care in Africa

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Pinkerton

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Youth & Society

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While there is a substantial body of leaving care research, the theorization of care leaving has been more limited. Only a few studies have incorporated a life course perspective, mainly in Global North contexts where life course perspectives may differ significantly from those in the Global South, including Africa. Drawing on findings from a feasibility research study, this paper contributes to the emerging international literature on theorizing care leaving by applying a life course perspective to the experiences of youth leaving care in four African countries. The paper highlights how life course can be a useful conceptual framework for understanding the experiences of care leavers with an emphasis on four core concepts: biography, linked lives, waithood, and agency. Implications for policy and practice are outlined with a focus on interdependence, participatory practice, biography, and cultural transition planning alongside efforts to redress systemic, oppressive barriers facing care leavers in society.

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“…Positive role models (e.g., teachers and elders; McLaughlin et al, 2015) and informal support (e.g., mutual self-help and spiritual groups) are also vital in enabling resilience (Wlodarczyk et al, 2017). Such relationships are bidirectional, involving not only the way such people relate to the young person, but also the ability of the young person to engage, initiate, and interact constructively with others (Leary & DeRosier, 2012;van Breda, 2022).…”

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Other-Initiated Interactions That Contribute to Resilient Outcomes Among Young Adults Raised by Caregivers Who Misuse Alcohol

Mushonga,

Van Breda

2024

IJCYFS

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This study offers an understanding of interactional resilience processes between young adults raised by caregivers who misused alcohol and people in their social-ecology who initiated supportive interactions that enabled them to achieve better-than-expected outcomes. Multiple in-depth face-to-face interviews and a draw-and-write methodology were used with 15 National University of Lesotho undergraduate students raised by caregivers who misused alcohol. An interactional resilience approach, building on person-in-environment and social-ecology perspectives on resilience, informed this study. Using constructivist grounded theory methods of data analysis, three themes were formulated: (a) other-initiated material support that elicits a response of resolve or obligation towards the other; (b) other-initiated sustained emotional support that elicits a response of hope for the future; and (c) other-initiated challenging support that elicits a change in behaviour. Given these findings, the study recommends that child and youth workers and social workers cultivate enabling and support-initiating social environments in key contexts such as schools, churches, and clubs, and develop children and young people’s skills to respond to and receive such support.

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The Contribution of Supportive Relationships to Care-leaving Outcomes: A Longitudinal Resilience Study in South Africa

Cited by 8 publications

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What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care

What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care

Youth in Transition: Exploring a Life Course Perspective on Leaving care in Africa

Other-Initiated Interactions That Contribute to Resilient Outcomes Among Young Adults Raised by Caregivers Who Misuse Alcohol

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