Time in care: the very first months

Pösö, Tarja; Helavirta, Susanna; Laakso, Riitta

doi:10.1332/204674315x14501122985334

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“…The social workers who were the children's caseworkers were involved in a study examining the 'black box of the care' of those children (Pösö et al 2015;Pösö et al 2016). They completed two questionnaires: the first six months after the care order had been introduced, and the second one six months later.…”

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Letters from the future: an exercise with child welfare predictions

Pösö

2017

Journal of Social Work Practice

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The article presents an empirical exercise about predictions in child welfare. In the exercise, social workers imagined letters which they could receive from a child and his/her parents in five years' time. The children had been in care for one year at the moment of letter-writing. When the social workers wrote the imaginary letters, they used their professional imagination, based on practice knowledge and experience, and were involved in a role-play. The analysis of the letters (34 from 'children' and 33 letters from 'parents') demonstrates four themes shared by the letters: ordinary life, family contacts and return home, social problems as shadows and assessment of the placement. Two narratives were performed: the narrative of future of ordinary life and that of the troubles. It is suggested that imaginary letters are helpful in highlighting practitioners' sense of the future, professional imagination as well as the empowering and critical points in practice.

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Letters from the future: an exercise with child welfare predictions

Pösö

2017

Journal of Social Work Practice

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“…The rich data gathered in this design has provided basis for analyses published elsewhere (e.g. Pösö et al, 2015;Pösö et al 2016;Helavirta 2016;Laakso 2016).…”

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Familiarity or Not: Children’s Choice of Interviewer in a Study of Substitute Care

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Laakso

Pösö

2017

Child Care in Practice

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This article is based on a study of children's experiences of being in care in which children were given the opportunity to choose either their own social worker or an outside researcher to interview them for the purposes of the research. The starting point of the study was that children's views are necessary to inform child welfare research and practice. However, as the topic is sensitive, there is a need to give children different options to participate in research. In this article, we examine how the children (N=17) describe their choice of interviewer and also explore how the social workers (N=8) experience their role as research interviewers. The findings highlight that there is no single reason for children for choosing either a social worker or a researcher to be the interviewer. Familiarity in particular can either be a motivation or an obstacle. The dual positions of children as research interviewees and as clients as well as the dual positions of social workers both supported and hindered the interviews. Social workers reported new insights into their knowledge about children's views as a result of the research interview experience. It is argued that the choice of the interviewer may be an option for some children to have their voice heard in research. Ethical balancing and critical dialogue are also suggested as having a role.

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“…Scholars also address care trajectories (Enell and Denvall, 2017; Pösö and Eronen, 2015), temporal discourses in social work, and temporal structuring of child welfare and protection practice (Fahlgren, 2009; Juhila et al, 2015; Pösö, 2018; White, 1998; Yuill and Mueller-Hirth, 2019). Also addressed are the timings and temporalities of care and support (Pösö and Eronen, 2015; Roberts, 2017), including from the perspective of young people (Andersen and Bengtsson, 2019; Pösö et al, 2018). However important, these contributions pay little or no attention to how various temporal discourses are mobilised in relation to different clients.…”

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Social change in developmental times? On ‘changeability’ and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions

Knezevic¹

2020

Time & Society

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While temporality has been addressed in the context of child welfare, the temporal dimensions of differentiation and othering remain unacknowledged. This article draws on material from a Swedish child welfare agency and is theoretically inspired by postcolonial and queer theories and critical childhood studies. It is based on an analytical juxtaposition of care order applications recommending immediate child welfare interventions versus interventions that are recommended after long ongoing assessments. Such recommendations are addressed as unequal in terms of timing. The article discusses temporal themes related to permanency versus temporary, which guide assessments of changeability. I show how immediate interventions respond to chronicity—the temporality of incurability, permanency, and underdevelopment. However, social problems in long ongoing assessments are assessed as permanent only after long ongoing observations or passage of time. The article discusses how ideas about change reproduce wider societal and intersecting inequalities. This becomes visible when considering time as allocated to parents and their potential to bring about change. I argue that even though permanency differs from chronicity, it still limits a discussion about change as societal, and the detection of problems remains within a developmentalist and neoliberal framework. In the concluding remarks, I offer an alternative reading of allocated time that can manoeuvre developmentalist logics, while balancing responsibilisation between the individual and the society.

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Time in care: the very first months

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Letters from the future: an exercise with child welfare predictions

Letters from the future: an exercise with child welfare predictions

Familiarity or Not: Children’s Choice of Interviewer in a Study of Substitute Care

Social change in developmental times? On ‘changeability’ and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions

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