The multi-local residency of children seen through case descriptions of Finnish child welfare social workers

Forsberg, Hannele; Ritala-Koskinen, Aino

doi:10.1080/13691457.2016.1185699

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“…The intervention creates a multi-local residency as the child moves on a regular basis between the support family and their permanent home (Forsberg and Ritala-Koskinen, 2017). The child usually spends one weekend per month (from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening) with the support family.…”

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Respite care from the child’s perspective – The Support Family Intervention in Finland

Svenlin

Lehto-Lundén

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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This article presents a synthesis of two PhD studies of Support Family Intervention (SFI) in Finland. This is a service in which volunteer families provide support and respite care to children and parents who are coping with a range of psycho-social challenges by looking after the children for one weekend a month. The aim of this article is to develop a child-centred programme theory (CCPT) of SFI that combines a meta-ethnography-based theory underpinning the use of SFI with evidence of participating children’s lived experiences. The CCPT that emerged is grounded on three elaborations of the programme theory currently informing SFI: a more nuanced description of the child as a stakeholder in the intervention, an investigation into the supportive properties of the environment and the activities provided by the support family to the child and clarification of the function of relationships as a central element of the intervention.

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Respite care from the child’s perspective – The Support Family Intervention in Finland

Svenlin

Lehto-Lundén

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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“…The outcomes of research in this broad field have many implications for the development of practice and exploring the participation, agency, and rights of children in childhood institutions such as schools (Alanko 2013), ECEC settings (Lipponen, Rajala, and Hilppö 2018;Paananen and Rainio 2019;Pursi 2019) and social work institutions (Enroos et al 2017;Forsberg and Ritala-Koskinen 2017;Helavirta 2011;Kallinen 2020). Today, the field also has links with cultural studies and the humanities via a focus on the arts, folklore, aesthetics, literature, and children's cultures (von Bonsdorff 2017; Rissanen 2020).…”

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Overview of Childhood (Finland)

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ECEC: ('Early Childhood Education and Care') In Finland, ECEC is a non-compulsory part of the Finnish education system and is based on an integrated approach to care, education, and teaching. ECEC is offered to children before they start compulsory school at the age of seven. All children receive compulsory pre-primary education at the age of six (4h/day). Theoretical approaches to childhood and childhood studiesAccording to Strandell (2010), Finnish childhood studies and sociology have been influenced by a divide between actor-and structure-oriented approaches. This was especially the case in the 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, a more political understanding come into play and, more recently, fluid and mobile concepts, aimed at overcoming the action-structure divide, have begun to inform childhood research (Strandell 2010). Agency is and has been one of the core concepts in Finnish childhood studies, as in many other countries, and it was of especial interest in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Alanen 2020; Strandell 2010). However, other concepts, such as space, generation, belonging, and embodiment, have also been introduced.Theoretically, different approaches are visible in Finnish childhood studies. A Foucault-inspired understanding of governmentality was applied by Siippainen ( 2018), who analyzed intergenerational relations in day care from the viewpoint of governance, and by Kuukka (2015) in relation to children's bodily lives. Harrikari et al. (2011) discuss the concepts of governmentality and the underlying rationalities in the context of institutional early childhood education, child welfare practices, public spaces, and participatory structures.Relational approaches differing in their conceptual emphases have been widely applied.Intergenerational relations have been studied by applying Bourdieusian concepts (e.g., field, capital, habitus). This approach foregrounds the view that the social worlds of children (and adults) are gendered, classed, raced, and generationed, while the theory of fields bridges different

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“…Focusing on residency is important, since it is argued that children's residency is emerging as a new battle ground for divorcing parents, with shared custody becoming more common (Beck & Beck-Gernsheim 1995). The study of the meanings of residency is part of our broader research project on children's (multi-local) residency and its links with social work (e.g., Forsberg, Autonen-Vaaraniemi & Kauko, 2016;Forsberg & Ritala-Koskinen 2017). 4 H. Forsberg, A. Kääriäinen and A. Ritala-Koskinen Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law The social work reports to the court are part of a process of multi-professional divorce work, in which judges, psychologists, child psychiatrists and social workers each practise their professional expertise.…”

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Children’s residence in divorce disputes – examination of social work reports to the court

Forsberg

Kääriäinen

Ritala-Koskinen

2018

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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The paper examines how children's residency is portrayed in the reports of social workers to courts in cases of contested divorce. In addition, light will be shed on how the descriptions contained in the reports pass into the court orders. The reports are approached through a micro-sociological lens: as assessment practices of social work which define children's residency and welfare. The results show that extensive and detailed descriptions of the physical residential situation of the child's mother and father were the most prevalent in the reports. People in the home and their interpersonal relationships together with the atmosphere of the home were also reported on. However, in the summaries of their reports the social workers place particular value on the cooperative parental relationships and stabilised circumstances of the child. Similar arguments were central in the judges' orders. The results raise questions of the appropriateness of the reports when settling the cases.

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The multi-local residency of children seen through case descriptions of Finnish child welfare social workers

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Respite care from the child’s perspective – The Support Family Intervention in Finland

Respite care from the child’s perspective – The Support Family Intervention in Finland

Overview of Childhood (Finland)

Children’s residence in divorce disputes – examination of social work reports to the court

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