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Chan, Kam Tong, and 陳錦棠. "The provision of residential child-care service under six: a policy analysis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42128286.
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Kwok, Am-ping Louisa. "An exploratory study of the adjustment problems of children entering institutional care /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12322404.
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Hodges, Jill. "Adolescent development following institutional care in the early years." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1991. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018510/.
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This thesis reports the development in mid-adolescence of a group of children raised in institutions until at least 2 years of age, then adopted or restored to a biological parent. These children were previously followed up at four and a half and at eight years of age. They were compared with a group of individually matched adolescents who had never been in institutional care. IQ depended largely on the type of family placement, and did not appear to be adversely affected by institutionalisation, at least so long as this did not extend beyond age four and a half. The experience of multiple changing caregivers during the period of institutionalisation did not necessarily prevent the children from forming strong and lasting attachment relationships to parents once placed in families, but this too depended on family environment, being much more common in adoptive families. However, some long-term effects of early institutionalisation were apparent. Ex-institutional adolescents showed more behaviour and emotional difficulties than matched comparisons, according to teacher questionnaires and interviews with the adolescents and their parents. They also showed greater orientation towards adult attention, and had more difficulties with peers and fewer close or confiding peer relationships than comparison adolescents, again indicating some long term effects of early institutional experience.
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Ng, Yim-wah, and 吳艷華. "Social skill training for children in institutional care: an exploratory study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249012.
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Ng, Yim-wah. "Social skill training for children in institutional care : an exploratory study /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117051.
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Kwok, Am-ping Louisa, and 郭鶯萍. "An exploratory study of the adjustment problems of children entering institutional care." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247507.
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Gibson, Oliver. "Health, environment and the institutional care of children in late Victorian London." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25821.
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Using the example of the London-based children's organisation Barnardo's, this thesis examines the influence of contemporary ideas regarding the relationship between environment, health and disease on the organisation and everyday institutional practices of the charity. While autobiographical accounts and historical investigations have written on the 'man himself' as well as the discursive and representational strategies used by Barnardo's to justify child removal, the importance of environmental discourses to the institution remain underexplored. The thesis addresses this lacuna through a detailed analysis of archival materials relating to Barnardo's (committee minutes, pamphlets, reports, Dr Barnardo's personal notebooks) as well as through a textual analysis of Night & Day, the main outlet for publicising the work of the charity and stimulating support for it. The thesis covers the period from 1866, when Barnardo's was founded, to the death of Dr Barnardo in 1905. This is a period when the environmental idea was arguably at its strongest, with a host of social ills (from criminality and prostitution, to human health and vitality and later in the period racial degeneration) linked to the influence of the environment. Like many other social reformers and philanthropists, Dr Barnardo was a firm believer in environmental explanations for such social ills, as well as a committed evangelical Christian, and promoted the rapid removal of young people (not all were orphaned but the vast majority were destitute) from urban and familial environments believed to do harm to their physical, moral and spiritual health. Where the first part of the thesis covers the importance of environment to the Barnardo's justification for his child removal practices, the remainder of it considers the response of the institution to environmental ideas. In addition to examining the influence of environment on institutional design and on the everyday practices of the 'inmates', for example the promotion of light and air in the girl's home at Barkingside, emphasis is also placed on ideas of mobility and movement. Here the thesis explores the paradoxical relationship between the organisation's 'anti-institutional' projection and the institutional realities of constructing and policing 'out of home' care practices (trips to the country- and seaside, boarding-out, emigration). This thesis contributes to extant accounts of Dr Barnardo's; however, its primary contribution lies in its nuanced examination of the role of environmental ideas on shaping institutional design and on its influence on the everyday practices of Barnardo's young inmates.
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O'Neill, Teresa. "Inside stories : children in secure accommodation; a gendered exploration of locked institutional care for children in trouble." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266905.
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Roy, Lonnie C. "Dallas Area Health Care Use: Study of Insured, Uninsured, and Medicaid Enrolled Children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2553/.
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This research investigated physician and emergency room use among representative samples of children in the Dallas metropolitan area (N = 1606) and among patients who used Children's Medical Center of Dallas' First Care services (N = 612). Through telephone interviewing, caregivers to children under fifteen years of age were asked about an array of health service use behaviors, social-psychological issues related to acquiring health care for their children, and demographic characteristics as outlined by the Andersen & Newman model of health care service use. Children's use of physician services is best predicted by whether or not they have medical insurance, their level of income, and whether or not they have medical homes. Although having commercial managed care and fee-for-service Medicaid insurance consistently predicted increased physician use, neither independently reduced reliance on emergency rooms for non-emergent care. Managed care insurance and Medicaid did, however, significantly improve the odds that children would have medical homes, which significantly decreased emergency room use for non-emergent care. Further, increasing physician use and reducing reliance on hospital emergency rooms for non-emergent care will require ensuring that children have medical homeseither private physicians or community health centersat which they can readily and consistently receive sick and well care. Although some ethnic differences were observed, few of the broad array of factors in the Behavioral Model significantly predicted either physician or emergency room use. Moreover, educational levels and health beliefs rarely, and if significant negligibly, influenced physician and emergency room use. Health policy for children would best be served by focusing on programs that facilitate parent's ability to secure health insurance for their children and allocating children to medical homes where they can readily and consistently access sick and well care.
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Mtonga, Jonnathan. "On and Off the Streets : children moving between institutional care and survival on the streets." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norsk senter for barneforskning, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-15920.
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The new social studies of childhood advocate for children to be viewed and approached as social actors who are competent participants on matters affecting them. It further suggests that childhood should be viewed as a social construct; it takes note of differences and variations in childhoods that need to be taken into account when coming up with programs and interventions for children. To researchers, this calls for a shift from doing research “on” children to doing research “with" children. It is these notions of new social studies of childhood that have guided my study. My thesis explores factors that prompt street children to escape institutional care in preference for the streets, and challenges they encounter on the streets and how they manage to survival regardless of the challenges they are exposed to. Gender differences in the way street life affects boys and girls are highlighted. The study employed qualitative research methods namely, semi-structured interviews; participant observation, focus group discussions. The total number of participants in this study was 20, 10 boys and 10 girls. 5 girls were living on the streets and the other 5 were living under institutional care but previously they had lived on the street. Accordingly, 5 boys were living on the streets and the other 5 were living under institutional care but previously they had lived on the streets. The study realizes that street children defy the widely held idea of vulnerability and dependence arising from the conviction that a “proper” childhood involves being nurtured by parents within a home and secluded from the dangers of the adult world. However, through their social network, seen as social capital, and by employing their agency, street children are able to develop survival mechanisms that sustain their lives in the absence of parents. Based on the accounts from girls, the study documents that cultural norms and gender stereotypes put girls at a disadvantage as they have limited survival mechanism and they are generally more vulnerable than boys. Knowledge based on street childrens’ perspectives and reflections about their lives is crucial as a resource for developing interventions.
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Chyu, Pui-yung Esther, and 徐佩容. "An exploratory study of home-like setting: Small Group Home." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977625.
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Andersson, Kjerstin. "Talking Violence, Constructing Identity : Young Men in Institutional Care." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Barn, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-12581.
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The aim of the study is to investigate how young men constructing identities in talk about their own use of violence. The study is based on a fieldwork at a youth detention home in Sweden. The data consists of individual interviews and video recordings of the treatment programme Aggression Replacement Training (ART). Detailed analyses have been made of conversations between the young men, between the young men and the trainers, and of the narratives generated in the individual interviews. The study has a social constructionist approach to identity, which is seen as constructed in a joint achievement in social interaction. An important analytical perspective in the study is how social categories and subcategories are constructed. The study has a particular focus on gender, primarily masculinity, but age and ethnicity are also being emphasised. The analysis draws on four empirical studies. It is shown how the young men construct a preferred self-presentation when talking about violent events. The narratives on violence are either based on experiences or talked about as a hypothetical use of violence. Violence based on personal experience is problematized and legitimized in terms of self-defence, defending friends, restraint and justified violence. Narratives of violence are shown to be interactional resources available to the young men. When talking about violence, the young men can be seen to regulate social relations, and to position themselves in relation to particular discourses of masculinity. The specific understanding of what it entails to be a man enables the use of violence with respect to social categorizations such as age, ethnicity or criminal identity. It is also argued that the treatment programme ART may, at times, facilitate maintaining a criminal identity.<br>Avhandlingens övergripande syfte är att undersöka hur unga män konstruerar identiteter kring berättelser om eget våldsutövande. Den bygger på en studie gjord vid ett särskilt ungdomshem i Sverige. Såväl enskilda intervjuer som videoinspelningar av behandlingsprogrammet Aggression Replacement Training (ART) har utgjort analysmaterialet. Ingående analyser har gjorts av samtalen mellan de unga männen, mellan de unga männen och behandlingspersonalen, och berättelserna i de enskilda intervjuerna. Avhandlingen bygger på en socialkonstruktionistisk ansats där identitet analyseras i social interaktion med andra. Ett viktigt analytiskt perspektiv i studien är hur sociala kategorier och underkategorier skapas. Ett särskilt fokus ligger på genus och då främst maskulinitet, men även ålder och etnicitet lyfts fram som viktiga perspektiv. Avhandlingen omfattar fyra delstudier. Studien visar hur de unga männen konstruerar en positiv självpresentation när de talar om våldshändelser. Våldsberättelserna är antingen erfarenhetsbaserade eller utgår ifrån tal om hypotetiskt våld. Det erfarenhetsbaserade våldet problematiseras och legitimeras genom att talas om som självförsvar, försvar av kompisar, återhållsamt eller rättmätigt. Studien visar att våldsberättelser är interaktionella resurser för de unga männen. Genom att tala om våld reglerar de sociala relationer och positionerar sig i relation till vissa maskulinitetsdiskurser. Den specifika förståelsen av vad det innebär att vara en man, möjliggör användandet av våld avhängigt andra sociala kategorier, så som ålder, etnicitet och kriminell identitet. Studien indikerar också att behandlingsprogrammet ART ger möjlighet att underlätta upprätthållandet av en kriminell identitet.<br><p>Due to copyright matters, have the articles, published in chapter 4, 5, 6 and 7, been removed.</p>
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Chan, Ho-yung Dennis, and 陳可勇. "The Institutional control and care of young people in colonial Hong Kong 1932-1997: a social history." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31244002.
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Otwori, Beverly N. "It's Going to be Different, but It's Going to be Okay: Caregiver Perspectives on Autism, Culture and Accessing Care." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062816/.
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Through ethnography influenced by public health and anthropological theory, I explored the cultural perceptions of autism among eight caregivers whose children received services from a local Dallas-Fort Worth autism treatment organization. Participant observations and semi-structured interviews with caregivers and program employees provided a rich and nuanced view into the state of care currently available in the DFW area while also highlighting areas for improvement. This research will be used to not only identify the barriers faced by North Texas Families while seeking out care,but also the strategies the organization uses when connecting with families from different backgrounds.
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Milea, Simona Aostacioae. "The differences in environmental quality of care for HIV/AIDS-infected children in Romanian institutions and group homes." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Summerton, Rebecca, and Paulina Grönevik. "Preventive Work Among Youth at Risk in Tegucigalpa - Subjective Experiences of Institutional Care." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPI, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-11492.
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This study aims to explore how secondary prevention carried out at a Honduran institution for youth at risk is experienced by its professional workers and former residents. This qualitative research is based on ethnographic approaches conducted at Hogar de Niños Renacer, Tegucigalpa, which is a facility for institutional care of youth at risk. Renacer applies a holistic, multidimensional approach to preventive work by covering various dimensions of youth development such as needs for emotional care, education, and spiritual growth. All research participants claim that positive aspects of Renacer include the provision of such possibilities. The project is constantly developing and accommodates various areas in need of improvement such as acquiring sufficient, competent staff. The majority of individuals who have participated in Renacer‟s project are proven to establish a functioning adult life after leaving the institution.
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Helmicki, Soni. "Evolution and Devolution of Inpatient Psychiatric Services: From Asylums to Marketing Madness and Their Impact on Adults and Older Adults with Severe Mental Illness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984274/.
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I examined the factors that led to the rise and fall of psychiatric hospitals and its impact on two select groups of individuals: adults and older adults with severe mental illness. To explore the reasons behind these fluctuations, the State of Texas was used as a case study. Additionally, the fluctuations occurred for different reasons in public vs. for-profit investor-owned psychiatric hospitals. Using an investor-owned psychiatric hospital organization as a case study, I investigated the differences in factors that influenced the growth and/or demise in public vs. investor-owned psychiatric hospitals. Evolution and devolution of psychiatric hospitals was assessed during select time periods: 1700 to1930, 1940 to1970, 1980 to 2000, and 2000 to present. Time period selections were relevant to the important drivers of the span of time that influenced the psychiatric hospitals. Historical review and trend analysis was used to identify the total number of psychiatric hospitals and/or total number of psychiatric hospital beds and psychiatric hospitals by type. Analysis showed there was a cyclical pattern of evolution and devolution of psychiatric hospitals and each cycle altered the form, function, and role of the psychiatric hospital along with altering the location of care for adults and older adults with severe mental illness. The research results suggest a long-stay residential facility, specializing in evidence-based treatment for adults and older adults with severe mental illness, to counter the dire shortage of psychiatric hospital beds.
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Lee, Tsz-ho Elvis, and 李子豪. "A boarding school for autistic children." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985282.
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Fernandez, Mary Elizabeth Poteet. "A survey study of entry transition practices used by teachers of infants and toddlers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4710/.
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This study identified transition practices used by teachers and/or primary caregivers of infants and toddlers when entering child care programs across Dallas , TX . Participants completed the Program Entry Transition Practices Survey regarding their use of transition practices in fall 2003 and perceived barriers to entry transition practices. Results show frequency tallies, percentages of use for each transition practice, and the mean number of practices used for the entire sample and with the sample split according to participants from profit and non-profit programs. Results were also organized into four subscales based on the type of practice used. Results supported the hypothesis that teachers and caregivers would report more transition practices occurring after beginning care and directed towards a group than those occurring before beginning care and directed towards an individual. In response to the broader research question regarding barriers: Teachers and caregivers from profit and non-profit centers reported similar barriers to implementing transition practices.
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Skoog, Viktoria. "Barn som flyttas i offentlig regi : En studie av förekomst och upplevelser av instabil samhällsvård för barn." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-68307.
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The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the incidence of instability in out-of-home care for children and how children experience this instability. The dissertation consists of two studies. The quantitative study is based on an examination of social work case files of 213 children who began 317 placements in 2005 and 2006. Every placement was followed for a maximum of two years. The qualitative study used interpretive phenomenology as method and is based on interviews with 12 purposively selected children who had experienced placement breakdown at some point during 2011 or 2012. The quantitative study shows that the majority of children had experienced problems in their home environments prior to placement. Most commonly reported was parents’ substance abuse or mental health problems. Preschool and schoolchildren were more often placed in care due to neglect whereas adolescents were placed because of their own behavior problems or relational problems. Children in the qualitative study described that the problems they experienced prior to coming into care continued to influence them during their time in care. The quantitative study indicates that different types of instability are associated with children’s ages. That is, breakdown was most common for adolescents whereas preschool children more often experienced planned placements changes. Children in the qualitative study gave similar descriptions of planned placement changes and placement breakdown. The difficulty with which these children experienced the move from a foster family or group home depended on their relationship to caregivers. Therefore, planned placement changes from foster homes or institutional settings in which children reported being happy were described as more difficult than breakdown in placements from which children wanted to move. In children’s views, breakdown was caused by mismatches between them and caregivers, mistreatment in care settings, and their own behavior problems. However, children explained that when social workers did not listen to them, behavior problems in the form of running away, self-harming or behaving badly, were the only way of ending placements in which they were miserable. All children in the qualitative study described a wish for close relationships with consistent adults and an opportunity to feel that they belong somewhere. These fundamental needs were difficult for them to have satisfied due to their parents’ problematic life histories, instability in care which repeatedly placed children in new care situations, and a lack of continuity of social workers.
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Bond, Susan Jane. "Adult adjustment and independent functioning in individuals who were raised in a children's home." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008161.
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Children are placed in a children’s home when a Presiding Officer finds them to be in need of care and when there is no viable community placement alternative. The body of literature on children’s homes focuses primarily on the negative effects and outcomes of such statutory placement. The assertion that children who grew up in children’s homes will continue to use the services of welfare organisations in adulthood, is supported by the researcher’s observation as a practicing social worker. This, and the study of available literature, resulted in this qualitative, exploratory-descriptive and contextual research study with the following goal: to enhance the understanding of how intervention programmes at children’s homes can contribute to adult adjustment and independent functioning of those children in their care. A purposive sampling method was used to identify ten participants who had spent at least 2 years in a children’s home and who had been discharged from the children’s home at least 5 years ago (to the date of data collection). The sample was drawn from clients at non governmental social welfare agencies who fitted the sampling criteria. The data was collected via semi-structured interviews using an interview guide, which were recorded, transcribed and then analysed using a thematic content analysis approach. The results of the study may be used to develop and implement meaningful intervention strategies for individuals placed in children’s homes.
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Pietersen, Marisa. "Child care workers' management of sexualised behaviour displayed by children in residential child and youth care centres." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1644.
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Children have been shown to respond differently to the hurt that they suffer at the hands of others. Some of these responses involve internalised behaviours (i.e., repression of feelings, bodily symptoms, etc.); whilst others hurt manifest as externalised behaviours, such as physical attacks on others. These may include sexualised behaviours. The latter is particularly common amongst (but not restricted to) children who have been sexually abused (The American Psychological Association, 2001). For the purposes of this study a distinction is made between developmentally appropriate sexual behaviour and non normative sexualised behaviour which evoke complaints from and discomfort in those involved in the behaviour. The manifestation of these sexualised behaviours is especially pronounced amongst children in institutional care; and hence, it calls for constructive and effective management by the child care workers who are primarily responsible for their safe care and behaviour modification whilst in the institution. This qualitative study – with an exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design – served to explore how the child care workers’ effective management of such behaviours could be enhanced, so that the emotional wellbeing of both the “offender” and the “perpetrator” of this behaviour can be promoted. A non-probability purposive sampling technique was employed to recruit research participants from three different child and youth care centres in Port Elizabeth. A total number of 10 research participants were involved and data was collected up to the point of data saturation. Thematic content analysis was utilised for the analysis of the data and the necessary strategies were employed to enhance the trustworthiness of the data and to meet all the ethical requirements of the study. The main findings alert to the key requirements of Child and Youth Care Workers; it confirms the occurrence of sexualised behaviours; the urgent need for a consistent approach to the management of such behaviours; and for enhanced team work between the helping professionals in the team. The value of the study is embedded in the contributions it can make to practical interventions for children in institutional care, and to the sparse body of knowledge in this area.
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Allen, Martha Paralee. "A constructivist study of the decision-making process in permanency planning." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/688.
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Mudaly, Balasundran Subramani. "The life-world of youth in children's homes." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002080.
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The study sought to obtain an insightful understanding of the life-world of youth who have not only experienced long-term separation from their biological parents and families but who have also simultaneously experienced prolonged institutional life in a children'e home. Using a descriptive praxis in the context of an existential phenomenological perspective, the study elicited from participants written descriptions of their personal experiences of the phenomenon of self-fulfilment. The data were structurally analysed, expressed in the form of extended descriptions and utilised as the basis for an exposition/appreciation of the life-world relationships of institutional youth. The target group of teenagers was drawn from a specific children's home. However, in order to enhance the findings of the study, data from a comparative group of youth from intact families in the community were also utilised. The study yielded some useful comparative insights which not only formed the basis for certain recommendations but also served as directions for future research. Hopefully, these recommendations and research proposals will be of some immediate interest and comfort to both reeearchers and practitioners in the field of residential child and youth care
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Alatorre, Erika Yolanda, and Angelica Lemus. "Foster caregivers' opinions on the causes of multiple placements among foster children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2915.
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The purpose of the study was to gather data that could help minimize the number of placements that foster children often experience. The results of this study are intended to help California child welfare agencies and other foster care agencies develop additional policies that support the development of stable foster care placements for dependent children.
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Glazer, Courtney Anne, and Adrianne Marie Vance. "Process evaluation of treatment with adolescents in residential treatment foster care." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3067.
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As the number of children in foster care without a familial placement continues to grow, the child welfare system is turning towards a new placement approach called Residential Treatment Foster Care. This study performed a process evaluation of 30 Residential Treatment Foster Care facilities in Los Angeles County that explored the four characteristics of case plan design, team decision-making, therapeutic intervention, staff training, and overall treatment effectiveness with regards to the number of Absences Without Leave (AWOL) and completion of treatment plan.
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Briskman, Linda 1947. "Aboriginal activism and the stolen generations : the story of SNAICC." Monash University, National Centre for Australian Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9293.
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McClung, Michele. "Could do better! : how key care factors influence the educational achievement of children looked after at home and away from home in two local authorities in Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1128.
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The aim of this thesis was to explore the key care factors that influence the educational achievement of children looked after at home and away from home in Scotland. Traditionally there has been less research conducted in Scotland than in the rest of the United Kingdom. The research analysed a large new sample - one fifth of the care leaving population in Scotland - and spans a five year period. The thesis makes an original research contribution. A unique features of the research is that it investigates the experiences of children looked after at home, alongside those looked after away from home. In addition, the research involved two large local authority areas in Scotland that had not previously participated in such research on looked after children. What emerged from the research was that the Corporate Parent (local authorities and partner agencies) had not yet successfully prioritised the educational achievement of looked after children in policy and practice, despite education being identified by the government as a mechanism for combating social exclusion. The key findings of the research demonstrated that looked after children perform less well academically than the general school population. In particular, placement type, the reason for becoming looked after and the age on becoming looked after were significant factors in determining educational achievement. Other factors such as gender and number of placements were also found to be associated with educational achievement. Empirical results further indicated that looked after children suffered from discrimination and social exclusion in all aspects of their lives, including school and where they lived. This was a significant finding as the disadvantage experienced by many looked after children continues to impact on their lives into adulthood, making them some of the most socially excluded adults in Scotland and the United Kingdom today.
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Blakey, Judy Ann. "The relationship between scholastic performance and neuropsychological functioning in a sample of institutionalised children." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17070.
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Bibliography: pages 299-316.<br>Professional staff attached to Child Welfare in Cape Town are aware of the lack of academic attainment of a large number of children in alternative care. The current research investigated the relationship between scholastic performance and neuropsychological functioning in a sample of institutionalised children from culturally deprived families. A multiple case study of 21 children, ranging in age from 6 to 16 years, comprising 10 girls and 11 boys attending the same primary school, provided data on neuropsychological, behavioural and family history dimensions. A multi-model assessment approach tapped diverse sources of evidence, including the following 5 parameters: 1) The Sensory Parameter: Snellen's Visual Acuity test, and either Merryweather & Steenkamp's or Wepman's Auditory Discrimination tests. 2) The Motor Parameter: Denckla's Revised Neurological Examination for Subtle Signs and the Purdue Pegboard fine motor speed and coordination tests. 3) The Language Parameter: The UCT Graded Reading, Speed Reading and Graded Spelling tests. 4) The Integrative Parameter: Visuographic functioning included the Beery Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test and the WISC-R Mazes subtest. General intelligence was assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised. Memory function was gauged both by the Benton Visual Retention Test (multiple choice format) and the WISC-R Digit Span subtest. Concentration was examined by combining 3 WISC-R subtest measures (Arithmetic, Digit Span & Coding) to yield a "Freedom from Distractibility" index. 5) The Personal Parameter: This included details of the children's heights and weights, as well as information regarding their self-concepts, measured by the Attitudes Towards Self Scale, a semantic differential self-report scale, developed by Nieuwoldt & Cronje. Written responses to 2 projective techniques, which included Wish fulfilment and Incomplete sentences, provided material for content analyses that yielded insights into attitudes to a variety of topics, including school, family life, hopes and fears.
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Fitschen, Elizabeth. "'n Ondersoek na die verskynsel van drostery vanaf Tenterden Plek van Veiligheid en Bewaring, met verwysing na maatskaplike werk perspektiewe in hierdie verband." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17264.
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Includes bibliography.<br>Die navorser het gepoog om vas te stel of drosgedrag in assosiasie met sekere veranderlikes plaasvind, dus of daar tendense bestaan. Die veranderlikes van belang vir die maatskaplike werk professie het voorkeur gekry in die studie. Die doel hiervan was om aan te toon dat hierdie professie 'n rol kan speel ten opsigte van hierdie gedrag. Die studie is beperk tot een inrigting, naamlik 'n plek van veiligheid. Tendense oor 'n 10 jaar tydperk, 1980-1989, is bestudeer sodat moontlik ook die invloed van personeelaangeleenthede en verskille in die bestuur van die inrigting indentifiseer kan word. Die data is vanuit argiefrekords, soos die persoonlike leêrs, straf-, opname-, en drostersregister, verkry. Ongestruktureerde onderhoude met die personeel het addisionele inligting verskaf. Oor sekere van die data is gegewens van die totale drosterpopulasie oor 10 jaar ingewin (N=492). Ander gegewens is vanuit die beskikbare persoonlike lêers (nl=413) verkry. Nie alle lêers het die verlangde gegewens beskikbaar gehad nie, en vir sekere gegewens is data vir kleiner groepe drosters ingewin. Hierdie gegewens is getabuleer, en waar van toepassing, is van grafieke of histogramme gebruik gemaak. Uit die resultate kon die volgende afgelei word: die omvang van die probleem is wyd en regverdig navorsing. 'n Hӧer drossyfer word in die maande van Februarie, Maart en November gevind. Daar is nie 'n tendens om op sekere dae van die week meer as ander dae te dros nie. Die meeste drosters dros binne 'n kort tyd na opname, en dros dan slegs enkele male van korte duur. Meer seuns dros as dogters. Die meeste drosters val binne die ouderdomsgroep 14-16 jaar en hierdie groep is ook vir die hoogste aantal drosinsidente verantwoordelik. Die meerderheid drosters dros in groepe, en in die geselskap van 'n ervare droster wanneer hulle die eerste maal dros. Die meeste drosters het 'n geskiedenis van wegloop- of drosgedrag. Die I.K. van drosters is ietwat laer as die van die normale bevolking, en hulle is ook meestal skolasties vertraag. Die meeste drosters meld mees gereeld hulle ongelukkigheid by die veiligheidsplek as 'n rede vir dros. Daar word tydens drosinsidente meestal huiswaarts gedros. Uit die resultate kon dus afgelei word dat, hoewel drosters waarskynlik ook emosionele probleme het, omgewingsfaktore 'n rol speel by drostery. Die belangrike implikasie van die bevinding is dat drostery deur omgewingsmanipulasie verminder behoort te kan word, en dat die maatskaplike werk professie 'n belangrike rol in die opsig kan speel.
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Mare, Marius. "Lungisisa Indlwla village : a social marketing case study on residential care for children." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97344.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Lungisisa Indlela Village is a non-profit organisation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It provides holistic residential care for orphaned and vulnerable children in order to “rescue a child, restore a life, raise a leader and release a star”. The village can house 1 000 orphans and the model used is long-term cluster foster care where the children will get a sense of belonging in a homely environment, modelling an African village lifestyle. The houses are built in clusters, each with eight homes surrounding a communal play area. Each home has a fully-trained house mother who may bring two biological children, and will be given up to six children through the Department of Social Welfare. Within a family environment, they will receive unconditional love, spiritual discipleship, care and nurturing. The Lungisisa Indlela Village School is a registered independent school which comprises a play-school, pre-school, primary school and secondary school. Lungisisa Indlela Village is assisting others who have the same vision to build villages in Pretoria, Benoni, Kimberley, Grahamstown, East London and George. The vision of Lungisisa Indlela Village is to build thousands of villages across Africa in order to turn one of the continent’s biggest problems into the solution.
The research focus is on the discipline of social marketing. More specifically, how Lungisisa Indlela Village makes use of the principles of social marketing in order to gain support from the community, government, corporate organisations and churches. A case study approach was followed, whereby literature and in-depth interviews were used to compare Lungisisa Indlela Village’s current marketing activities to best practice social marketing principles. The aim of the research was not only to assist Lungisisa Indlela Village with their expansion, but also to assist other orphanages and cause-related marketing organisations in putting together a marketing plan to drive the desired behaviour in both South Africa and the rest of Africa (in countries facing similar challenges).
The study, even though aimed at how Lungisisa Indlela Village compares to best practice social marketing principles, revealed that there are many other business and strategic issues to consider. These issues, however, inform how the marketing plan is executed. Leadership, governance, relationship with government and marketing the Lungisisa Indlela Village brand and solution are very important questions, issues and initiatives that need to be addressed before further expansion takes place.
The author would like to encourage the reader to watch the following video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSnujMEumrc, before reading the rest of this paper.
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Olivier, Andries J. "Effek van projektiewe narratiewe op kinders in kinderhuise se tekeninge van vrees." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3047.
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Thesis (MEdPsych (Educational Psychology)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>The study investigated the effect of using projective narratives and drawings that depict diminished
fear, on the anxiety levels of a group of children living in children’s homes, by means of a mixed
methodology. The sample consisted of 30 middle childhood children (mean age = 9.60 years, SD =
1.13) from three children’s homes in the Western Cape. Drawings were used to elicit content of fear or
anxiety (anxiety evoking drawing/bangmaaktekening) and proposed coping (anxiety lessening
drawing/bangwegvattekening). After completing the anxiety provoking drawing, participants in the
experimental group were asked to tell a story to other children with a similar fear to lessen/take that
fear away (projective narrative). The Spence Childhood Anxiety Scale (SCAS) was completed after
each drawing, and drawings evaluated through the use of anxiety scales, to measure changes in anxiety
levels according to the concept of triangulation.
The categories ghosts, snakes, and people were found to be the most prevalent content of fear from
anxiety provoking drawings, and undifferentiated fears were also common within this population.
Control of anxiety from anxiety lessening drawings indicated a definite prevalence of emotion focused
(secondary) coping strategies, specifically religious solace. The content of projective narratives echoed
this finding, although proposed solutions were more differentiated. Ownership of projections also
occurred.
The experimental effect was not significant, although mean anxiety levels were considerably lower in
the drawings in comparison with that of the SCAS. Drawings are thus seen as an effective, nonthreatening
technique to study anxiety phenomena. A comparison of the mean item scores of the SCAS
subscales indicated that symptoms of separation anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, and obsessivecompulsive
anxiety disorder were prevalent among this group of children in children’s homes.
A clear distinction was found between markers of state- and trait-anxiety through the qualitative
analysis of the drawings, with anxiety lessening drawings showing definite diminished state-anxiety,
although more established markers of trait-anxiety did not necessarily change. There are also
indications that transference of activated negative emotional stimuli occurred on an unconscious level
between the two drawings. Introducing the combination of projective narratives in the intervention
stage of the study appeared to facilitate learning or the experience of observed positive affect in anxiety
lessened drawings.
Future research would benefit from including a normative group to establish more clear markers of
state- and trait-anxiety in drawings, and by the use of a bigger sample to investigate factor loadings of
the SCAS among children in children’s homes. The high prevalence of anxiety symptoms in this
population emphasises their status as a vulnerable population, and the need for possible group
intervention – specifically the psycho-education of effective coping strategies for anxiety.
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Wills, Nicolene. "The general and emotional development of a sample of South African children in residential care." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1578.
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The main aim of this study was to explore and describe the general and emotional development of a sample of South African children between the age of five and eight years in residential care. More specifically, the study aimed to explore and describe the general level of development of a sample of children in residential care; to explore and describe the development of a sample of children in residential care in six areas of development; and to describe the emotional wellbeing of children in residential care. A non-probability, purposive sampling method was applied as the participants were comprised of children between the ages of 5 and 8 years housed at the residential care facility. The sample consisted of 11 children. The multiple case study method was used to achieve the aim of the study, using both qualitative and quantitative data. The quantitative data consisted of scores obtained from the administration of the Griffiths Mental Development Scales - Extended Revised (GMDS-ER). The qualitative data was obtained from the Human Figure Drawing (HFD), participants’ scholastic progress reports, case reports from the residential care facility and clinical observations during the assessment period. The data was analysed according to thematic analysis. The results highlighted the pervasiveness of delays in all domains of child development of children housed in residential care, specifically that of language, social and emotional development. An important finding of the study was that decrements in these domains of development underpinned delays in the other domains of development since they form the foundation of learning and relating to the world. The study served to emphasize the importance of consistent developmental assessment in order to ascertain whether these children present with developmental delays and, if so, to xv identify which areas of development are most affected. Information from the developmental assessments could assist in the early identification of developmental delays and allow for individually tailored interventions to overcome such delays.
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Goosen, Elzaan. "The self-concept and interpersonal functioning of South African girls in child care : a suggested model." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50188.
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Thesis (MSc)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aimed to create an elaborate model that can shed light on the intra- and
interpersonal functioning of middle childhood and early adolescent South African girls in
child care. Data used included: 1) measures of self-concept that was measured by The
Beck Youth Inventories: Self-concept inventory for Youths (Beck, Beck & Jolly, 2001), 2) a
qualitative indication of perceived attachment towards a mother figure and 3) biographical
data provided by the social workers associated with the children's homes that participated
in the study. Participants included 70 girls between the ages of 9 and 14, of which 35
were assigned to the Children's Home Group. The Control Group comprised of the rest of
the participants. Regression analysis, correlation measurement and the calculation of the
significance of the differences between groups were used to test hypotheses. Results
indicated that perceived attachment to a mother figure is a significant mediator of selfconcept,
but that factors related to age seemed to have the most significant mediating
effect during the developmental stages of middle childhood and early adolescence. The
results were used to combine and elaborate on existing theories of intra- and interpersonal
functioning in order to suggest a model that attempts to explain the functioning of South
African girls in child-care in more depth. Implications for these findings are discussed.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie ondersoek was om 'n gedetailleerde modelop te stel wat lig kan werp
op die intra- en interpersoonlike funksionering van middel-kinderjarige en adolessente
dogters in kindersorg in Suid-Afrika. Die data wat gebruik is, sluit in: 1) meetings van
selfkonsep wat gemeet is deur die Beck Youth Inventories: Self-concept inventory for
Youths (Beck, Beck & Jolly, 2001), 2) 'n kwalitatiewe indikasie van dogters se persepsie
oor die binding tussen hulle en hulonderskeie moeders, asook. 3) biografiese data wat
verskaf is deur die maatskaplike werkers wat geassosieer was met die kinderhuise wat
deelgeneem het. Die deelnemers het bestaan uit 'n groep van 70 dogters tussen die
ouderdomme van 9 en 14 jaar. Die helfte van die deelnemers het vanuit die kinderhuise
gekom terwyl die res van die deelnemers die kontrolegroep gevorm het. Regressie
analises, korrelasie metings en die berekening van die beduidendheid van verskille tussen
groepe is gebruik om hipoteses te toets. Die resultate het daarop gedui dat dogters se
persepsie van die kwaliteit van die binding tussen hulle en hul moeders, wel 'n beduidende
mediator van self-konsep is gedurende middle-kinderjare en adolessensie is, maar dat
faktore wat verband hou met ouderdom, die grootste mediërende effek het op self-konsep
gedurende hierdie ontwikkelingsfases. Op grond van die resultate is 'n model saamgestel
wat 'n voortbouing is op bestaande teorie, maar poog om meer lig te werp op die intra en
interpersoonlike funksionering van Suid-Afrikaanse dogters in kindersorg te verduilik. Die
implikasies hiervan word bespreek.
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Jimenez-Etcheverria, Pamela. "A comparison of psychological adjustment and cognitive functioning between adopted and institution-reared children in Chile." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277429.
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Many studies have shown that adopted children show higher levels of psychological adjustment than children living in institutions. However, there is little research comparing the behaviour and cognitive abilities of adopted and institution-reared children in Latin America, despite the large number of children living in institutional care. The aim of this thesis was to examine differences in the socio-emotional and cognitive functioning of adopted and institution-reared children in Chile, and to identify factors associated with the psychological adjustment and cognitive ability of adopted children. Data were obtained from 52 adopted children and their parents, and a comparison group of 50 children living in institutions. All adoptions were national and the children were aged between 4-9 years. Children’s psychological problems and attachment difficulties were assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Relationship Problems Questionnaire, respectively, completed by adoptive parents or caregivers and teachers. Cognitive functioning was assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III). The Structured Child Assessment of Relationships in Families was used to assess children’s perceptions of family relationships. Adoptive mothers and fathers were individually administered a standardised interview designed to assess parenting quality and questionnaire assessments of anxiety, depression, marital quality and parenting stress. Observational assessments of mother-child interaction were also carried out. Adopted children showed significantly higher levels of socio-emotional and cognitive functioning than institution-reared children, with the majority of adopted children scoring within the normal range and the majority of institutionalised children showed clinical levels of emotional and behavioural problems. The mean IQ score of adopted children was 23 points higher than that of the institutionalised group. Factors associated with more positive outcomes among the adopted children were a younger age at adoption and lower levels of maternal and paternal stress. Although a selection effect cannot be ruled out, with higher functioning children more likely to be adopted, the results point to a beneficial effect of adoption on the psychological development and wellbeing of institutionalised children in Chile.
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Alnajdawi, Ann. "The role of residential care institutions for children in conflict with the law in Jordan : workers' and children's experiences." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/16463.
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In Jordan, residential care institutions (RCIs) for children in conflict with the law are identified as various specialised state institutions which constitute a state formal response to youth crime, and specialise in taking care of children. This thesis examines the objectives of RCIs’ programmes for children in conflict with the law in Jordan, as they attempt to reduce offending by convicted children, and whether these objectives meet children’s needs, according to the view and experiences of children themselves (12-17 years). This study is based on qualitative methods, using data from individual and focus group interviews with institutional staff, and participant observation and individual interviews with children. Exploring the divergent claims made within childhood and youth crime theoretical perspectives, this thesis develops a nuanced understanding of institutions’ crime-reduction programmes by drawing upon key theoretical concepts from these frameworks: children as ‘socially becoming’ and ‘social beings’. RCIs provide four rehabilitative programmes to help reduce children’s problematic and offending behaviour; namely, a family guidance programme (FGP), a poverty reduction programme (PRP), an educational programme (EP) and a child behaviour modification programme (CBMP). To a large extent, these programmes tended to provide polices of crime prevention which focus on re-socialising children according to the normative and cultural system of behaviour in which children were generally perceived as incompetent social actors, and where their best interest was not always acknowledged. To a large extent, children’s own perspectives and experiences of institutional rehabilitative programmes revealed the institutional failure to treat their familial, economical, educational and behavioural problems. Overall, children thought such failure happened either because the institutional aims were not actually implemented, or because the methods of delivering the institutional programmes per se were ineffective. This finding reflects a contradictory picture between the RCIs’ objectives and their actual practices, reflecting the institutional departure from a set of theoretical ideas regarding the prevention of youth crime. Focus group discussion with key informant staff referred to a variety of obstacles that contribute to their inability to address children’s wider needs within the existing institutional aims. Parental refusal to participate in child abuse and supervisory neglect interventional sessions, short-term intervention for chronically abused children and institutional reliance on talking methods in promoting parental supervision over children’s behaviour were all issues hindering effective institutional intervention within the familial environment. The institutional failure to meet children’s educational and career training needs occurred because these programmes are scheduled at the same time. The seriousness of some children’s crimes and the inability of some families to accompany their children to school were other issues preventing children from attending school. The lack of staff motivation, along with staff’s interrelated roles, prevented child monitoring staff from fully carrying out the intended intervention of modifying children’s negative behaviours. Ultimately, the findings from this study indicate the inconsistency between RCIs’ principles of rehabilitating children in conflict with the law and their actual practices, including the lack of policies in place to meet the institutional objectives. This in turn meant that RCIs do not actually operate to rehabilitate children in order to reduce reoffending, but are largely punitive and operate to criminalise children and separate them from society.
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Wilson, Amanda Louise, and Mary Anne Stoever. "The influence of extra-curricular activities on resiliency in foster children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1859.
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Swart, Petra. "Die benutting van speltegnieke tydens maatskaplike gevallewerkintervensie met die kinderhuiskind." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2098.
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Thesis (M Social Work (Social Work))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical framework for social workers in
children’s homes that may be used for play techniques during social casework
intervention with a children’s home child. The influence that the placement in a
children’s home has on the child, creates the context for this study. Specific
behaviour- and emotional problems that exist within the child were identified and play
techniques for the solving of these problems was described.
The research was done based on an extensive literature study, which focused on the
role and function of a children’s home, the needs, behaviour- and emotional
problems of the children’s home child and the usage of a practice framework and
play techniques by social workers.
A combined qualitative and quantitative research method and an explorative and
describing research design have been used in this study, since this combination
resulted in reaching the goal of the study. The empirical research investigated the
usage of play techniques by social workers during social casework intervention with
a children’s home child. The overall sample consisted of the 23 children’s homes in
the Cape Metropole where currently 31 social workers are employed. Semistructured
questionnaires were used as an interview instrument with an availability
test sample consisting of 18 social workers.
In light of the findings derived from the literature study and empirical research,
appropriate conclusions and related recommendations were made. The main
conclusion of the study is that the participants use play techniques randomly and not
in conjunction with a practice framework. The main recommendation of this study is
that social workers should use play techniques during social casework intervention,
based on a specific practice framework in order to assure responsiveness.
Continuous education in this regard is the responsibility of each social worker
working in a children’s home.
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Desjardins, Rita. "L'institutionnalisation de la pédiatrie en milieu franco-montréalais, 1880-1980, les enjeux politiques, sociaux et biologiques." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq43004.pdf.
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Swanepool, Henk Johan. "Developing an optimal psychological assessment procedure for determining primary care and residential placement of children in a divorce dispute." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3029.
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Thesis (PhD. (Clinical & Applied Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2013<br>This study aims at developing an optimal psychological assessment procedure for determining primary residence allocation for children whose parents are divorcing. The research consisted of two studies: the first study focused on “translating” 13 identified legal constructs formulated by Justice King for safeguarding the best interests of children and the identification of suitable psychometric instruments that can be used to determine how effectively a particular family is functioning. These 13 legal constructs were converted into psychological constructs by three independent clinical psychologists. Following this a psychological assessment procedure for children and parents within a divorce context was developed incorporating the newly developed psychological constructs.
The 2nd phase consisted of a sample of 39 families (26 families in the experimental group and 13 families in the control group). Six months later after primary placement the families were followed up in order to determine the psychological “health” of the families concerned using the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSE); Index of Family Relations (IFR); Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI) and the Family Assessment Device (FAD). The means obtained from both the experimental and control groups were compared using the MANOVA analysis.
The results from the RSE concluded that the self-esteem of children in the experimental group, improved significantly to those in the control group. The IFR indicated that families in the experimental group had improved significantly at resolving family problems. According to the ECBI the children in the experimental group with behavioural problems improved significantly after primary placement. In all children in the control group did not improve significantly. The Family Assessment Device therefore indicated significant family cohesion. In summary the results indicate that the families in the experimental group were functioning at a higher level in comparison to the control group six months after primary placement.
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Lo, Chung-yi, and 盧重儀. "The impact on parents and children of admission to a small group home." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3125052X.
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Eurico, Márcia Campos. "Preta, preta, pretinha: o racismo institucional no cotidiano de crianças e adolescentes negras(os) acolhidos(as)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21267.
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Previous issue date: 2018-05-29<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>The research has sought to analyse how the institutional racism takes place in
black children's and teenagers daily routines and how much thispractice keeps deep
relation to the accredited forms of black bodies control during slavery period in Brazil.
The methodological procedures involved bibliographic documental research from 3
axes: racial democracy, institutional racism and institutional sheltering, whose analytical
reading allows it to establish the criticism to the infancy attention model, materialised
into the service daily routine; and field research in the institutions with the realization of
focus group directed to the professionals. By immersing into the complex institutional
sheltering process, behind the appearance of a safe place - with a roof, warm bed and
five daily meals - a fact that professionals present it as a synonym of sheltering, what in
fact is revealed as a projected institution to frame these children and adolescents,
condemn them to confinement and reinforce, besides the non-belonging concept, their
families' degeneration. If the daily-life is a place for thoughtless practices and loaded
with ideology, the institutional sheltering services also incorporate these practices and
perform the institutional racism, without embarrassement, because they represent the
State which has played their eminent role of "poor" infancy and adolescence guardian. It
is concluded that the institutional sheltering service target public has history, social class
and race/color, and the priority task is to emerge this history so that the essence of
sheltering phenomenon may be known as one more maneuver of controlling capitalism
over the worker's class<br>A pesquisa buscou analisar como se materializa o racismo institucional no
cotidiano de crianças e adolescentes negros(as) e o quanto esta prática guarda
profunda relação com as formas legitimadas de controle dos corpos negros no período
da escravidão no Brasil. Os procedimentos metodológicos envolveram pesquisa
documental bibliográfica, a partir de três eixos: democracia racial, racismo institucional
e acolhimento institucional, cuja leitura analítica permite estabelecer a crítica ao modelo
de atenção à infância, materializado no cotidiano dos serviços; e pesquisa de campo
nas instituições, com a realização de grupos focais dirigidos aos profissionais. Ao
mergulhar no complexo processo de acolhimento institucional, por detrás da aparência
de um lugar seguro − com teto, cama quentinha e cinco refeições diárias − fato que os
profissionais, via de regra, apresentam como sinônimo de acolhimento, o que se revela
é uma instituição projetada para enquadrar essas crianças e adolescentes, condená-los
ao confinamento e reforçar, além do não lugar, a degeneração de suas famílias. Se o
cotidiano é lugar de reprodução de práticas irrefletidas e carregadas de ideologia, os
serviços de acolhimento institucional também incorporam estas práticas e reproduzem o
racismo institucional, sem constrangimentos, porque representam o Estado que se
colocou no eminente papel de guardião da infância e adolescência “pobres”. Conclui-se
que o público-alvo dos serviços de acolhimento institucional tem história, tem classe
social e tem raça/cor, e a tarefa prioritária é fazer emergir essa história para que se
possa conhecer a essência do fenômeno de acolhimento como mais uma manobra do
capitalismo de controle sobre a classe trabalhadora
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Yung, Wai-man, and 翁慧敏. "An exploratory study on children's perception towards their parents' involvement during their residence in the small group home." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4389544X.
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Quesnel, Galván Lucia Beatriz. "An Orphanage in Mexico: Four United Nations' Human Rights of Children and Wolins' Prerequisites for Efficient Group Care Through the View of the Manager and Staff." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3311.
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In Mexico there are officially 1.8 million orphaned children, without counting non-orphaned children deprived of family, who also need care; of these, only 657,000 are living in 703 orphanages. Mexico's government invests less than 2% of its budget toward protection of children. There is a lack of substantive research or official assessment of orphanages. According to the scant research found, the children's human rights most frequently violated in Mexican orphanages are the rights to nutrition and health care, to be protected from further victimization, to free expression and participation, and to not be exploited. This study was carried out through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the manager and five staff members of a respected orphanage in Mexico. It aimed to determine how they attempt to fulfill the aforementioned rights, and how their work relates to six prerequisites for efficient group-care formulated by Wolins after his vast research on the matter. Results indicate that the staff members of this orphanage view their work as spirituality in action, becoming the children's family, caring for their health through special vegetarian nutrition. They teach the children that they are the masters of their own lives and happiness, and not to see themselves as victims. From results I also suggest well supervised facilities, coupling between staff and professionals to screen children's health; a vegetarian diet based on scientific research; children's participation in rules, learning about, from and for their human rights and the idea of children being masters of their life and happiness.
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Arendse, Abraham John. "Die vestiging van 'n leerkultuur in 'n kinderhuisskool." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52801.
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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to research the establisment of a culture of learning in a
childcare school.
The appeal by the government of the establisment of a culture of learning, serves as
background to this study. This appeal implies a change of attitude by both learners
and educators with regard to the learning and teaching process. The objective of this
change is to prioritize learning and teaching in schools. This will enable learners to
effectively develope intelectually, personally and socially. The feasibility to
transform the school to a learning organization , is being researched. In a learning
organization , learning is being internalised. Transformation to a learning
organization will ensure that the school keeps pace with, and make the neccesary
adjustments relative to the change. In achieving the transformation to a learning
organization, such a school can be sure that learning and teaching will remain a top
priority.
This study is a situational analysis of a childcare school, which requested to remain
anonymous. This analysis clearly expose the lack of a culture of learning at this
school, due to the cultural bagage of the learners, which are manifested in serious
behavioral problems, and which in turn prevent an effective learning prosess.
The behavioral problems impede an the educators abillity to teach effevtively. It
leads to high stress levels and a low morale. It is very clear that this situation can only be remedied if the behavioral problems of the learners are effectively dealt
with.
The study begins with identifying the problems and setting the questions for research.
In the ensuring chapters, a study of the literature, a situational analysis and proposed
programme to establish a culture of learning, follows.
The proposed programme, amongst others, put forward a strategy to eliminate the
behavioral problems of learners as well as reducing the stress-levels of the educators.
It uniformaly focusses on the role of the prinicipal in obviating the said
encumbrances, and the transformation to a learning organization. The programme
includes a comprehensive discussion of strategic planning as an instrument In
establishing a culture of learning and transformation to a learning organization.
The programme can possibly serve as a guideline for schools which accommodate
large numbers oflearners with serious behavioral problems.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die vestiging van 'n leerkultuur in 'n kinderhuisskool is in hierdie studie ondersoek.
Die studie is onderneem teen die agtergrond van die regenng se oproep om 'n
leerkultuur in ons skole te vestig. Hierdie oproep impliseer 'n verandering in leerders
en onderwysers se ingesteldheid ten opsigte van leer en onderwys. Hierdie
verandering het dit ten doel dat leer en onderrig prioriteit in skole sal geniet. Die
moontlikheid om die skool in 'n lerende organisasie te transformeer word ondersoek.
In 'n lerende organisasie word leer geïnternaliseer. Transformasie na 'n lerende
organisasie sal verseker dat die skool tred hou met verandering en die nodige
koersaanpassings maak. Indien 'n skool daarin kan slaag om tot 'n lerende organisasie
te transformeer sal dit verseker dat leer en onderrig altyd prioriteit by die skool sal
bly.
Hierdie studie is 'n situasie-analise van 'n kindershuisskool, wie op versoek anoniem
wil bly. Vanuit die situasie-analise blyk dit duidelik dat daar nie 'n leerkultuur in die
skool aanwesig is nie. Die leerders se kulturele bagasie, wat uitdrukking vind in
ernstige gedragsprobleme, verhoed dat effektiewe leer plaasvind. Die
gedragsprobleme kortwiek die onderwysers se werkverrigting aangesien dit
aanleiding gee tot hoë stresvlakke en dus 'n lae moraal. Dit blyk baie duidelik dat dit
slegs moontlik sal wees om 'n leerkultuur te vestig indien die leerders se
gedragsprobleme effektief aangespreek kan word.
Die studie begin deur die probleem en navorsingsvrae te stel. Die volgende
hoofstukke behels 'n studie van die literatuur, die situasie-analise en 'n voorgestelde
program om 'n leerkultuur in die skool te vestig.
Die voorgestelde program doen, onder andere, strategieë aan die hand om die leerders
se gedragsprobleme te elimineer en om die onderwysers se stresvlakke te laat daal.
Dit fokus deurgaans op die prinsipaal se rol in die uitskakeling van bogenoemde
hindernisse en sy rol in die vestiging van 'n leerkultuur en die transformering na 'n
lerende organisasie. Die program sluit 'n volledige bespreking van strategiese
beplanning as instrument in die vestiging van 'n leerkultuur en die transformering na
'n lerende organisasie in.
Die program kan moontlik as riglyn dien vir skole wie groot getalle leerders met
gedragsprobleme huisves.
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Holt-Gaines, Tinya Kay. "Analysis needs assessment of foster youth group homes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1614.
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Jimenez, Susanne Allison, and Lori Hai Stooksbury. "The utilization of parent-child visitations for reunification and stability among children and families." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2753.
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Serrano, Solange Aparecida. "O abrigamento de crianças de zero a seis anos de idade em Ribeirão Preto: caracterizando esse contexto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-17122008-231246/.
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No Brasil, historicamente predominou uma cultura de institucionalização da infância pobre. A doutrina jurídica praticada ao longo do tempo, as concepções de família e criança, a desigualdade social influenciam as práticas de atendimento à infância. O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente prevê que o abrigo em entidade é medida provisória e excepcional. Esta pesquisa objetiva caracterizar a situação do abrigamento de crianças de zero a seis anos em Ribeirão Preto, nos quatro abrigos que atendem essa faixa etária, focando: caracterização das crianças abrigadas e suas famílias (dados sócio-demográficos) e caracterização da trajetória do abrigamento. Os dados foram coletados pela pesquisadora, também psicóloga do Fórum de Ribeirão Preto-SP. Pesquisou-se o período de abril/2003 a abril/2005, nos prontuários/pastas das crianças nos abrigos, no banco de dados do Setor de Serviço Social e Psicologia do Fórum e nos processos dessas crianças na Vara da Infância e Juventude do Tribunal de Justiça. Foram utilizadas duas fichas para coleta de dados, uma relativa à criança e à trajetória do abrigamento e outra relativa à família. Além disso, como procedimentos auxiliares para compreensão da realidade realizaram-se entrevistas com os coordenadores dos abrigos, conselheiros tutelares, presidente do Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Criança e Adolescente de Ribeirão Preto e, com atores sociais em Porto Alegre-RS. Considerando a complexidade do fenômeno, o referencial teórico-metodológico a orientar a coleta e análise deste trabalho é a perspectiva da Rede de Significações. Dentre alguns dos resultados ressalta-se significativa ausência de informações sobre as crianças e suas famílias; 258 crianças foram abrigadas no período; 59% meninos; 51% afros-descendentes; 50% sem informação sobre terem pai; 78% têm irmãos, 55% recebem visitas familiares; 27% estiveram abrigados anteriormente; 86% moram em bairros situados nas zonas mais pobres. Para as famílias, predominância de afros-descendentes; mães como únicas responsáveis pelos filhos; pais com baixa escolaridade, desemprego ou trabalhos que exigem pouca qualificação e oferecem baixos salários; reduzido número de registros de encaminhamentos para programas de atendimento à família. Sobre motivo do abrigamento, predominância de negligência, abandono e falta temporária de condições, associado à dificuldade financeira da família; significativos períodos de institucionalização tanto curtos de até cinco dias quanto longos de um ano ou mais; 63% das crianças retornaram à família de origem e 13% foram adotadas. Um abrigo é municipal, os demais ONGs; apresentam restrições de dias/horários para visitas familiares; apenas dois fazem trabalhos de reintegração familiar e acompanhamento pós-desabrigo. As instituições são atravessadas por mudanças políticas e contextuais, trazendo (des)continuidades no cuidado provido e diferenças nas formas de (não)fazer o registros dos dados. Observaram-se dificuldades de articulação entre os atores envolvidos no abrigamento; dificuldades em delimitar critérios para realizar abrigamentos e desabrigamentos e insuficiência na oferta de políticas públicas. Ao dar visibilidade para as crianças e famílias, a pesquisa contribui com diretrizes atuais de mapeamento local, bem como desnuda a dinâmica do abrigamento. Através dos indicadores pode contribuir para alteração dessa realidade: criação e manutenção do sistema de registros dos dados das crianças e famílias; subsídios para a formulação de políticas públicas a esse segmento.<br>The institutionalization of poor children has historically and culturally predominated in Brazil. The juridical doctrine practiced over time, the conceptions about family and children, and the social inequality all have influenced the child care services. In Brazil, the Child and Adolescent Statute foresees that \"keeping the child in foster institution\" is a transient and peculiar measure. The objective of the present research is to characterize the institutional situation of children aged 0 to 6 years old who live in four foster institutions situated in Ribeirão Preto by examining the sheltered children and their families (socio-demographic data) as well as their path towards institutionalization. Data were collected by the researcher, who is also psychologist of the Court of Ribeirão Preto, SP. The period of time between April 2003 and April 2005 was studied and the corresponding records/files were obtained from the childrens foster institutions, from the Psychology and Social Services database, and from the court processes. Two types of data were collected, namely, one relative to both children and their path towards institutionalization and other relative to their family. Besides, further procedures were performed in order to better understand the real situation of the children: interviews with coordinators of the shelters, tutor-counsellors, Chairman of the Ribeirão Preto Council for Child\'s and Adolescents Rights, and social actors in Porto Alegre, RS. Considering the complexity of the phenomenon, the theoretical-methodological basis to guide both data collection and study analysis involves the perspective of the Network of Meanings. Among the results, the most significant one was the lack of information on the children and their families; 258 children were sheltered in the period of study; 59% were boys; 51% were afro-descending; 50% knew nothing about their father; 78% had siblings; 55% received family visits; 27% had been previously sheltered; and 86% lived in poor areas. Their families were predominantly afro-descending; the mothers were the only responsible for the children; their parents had low educational level and most of them were unemployed or worked in low-qualification jobs with lower wages; and they had a reduced number of referrals to family social programs. The reasons for institutionalization include negligence, abandonment and transitory lack of social conditions in association with financial difficulties. The length of institutionalization ranged from short periods of five days to longer periods of one year or more; 63% of the children returned to their family of origin, and 13% were adopted. One of the foster institution is municipal and the other ones are ONGs, and all have time restrictions regarding family visits. Only two foster institutions have programs for family reintegration and post-institutionalization follow-up. These institutions suffer political and contextual changes, often resulting in care interruption and differences in the method of recording the data. Arrangement difficulties were observed among the actors involved in establishing criteria for institutionalization and (de)institutionalization in addition to the lack of public policy. By giving visibility to such children and families, the present research provides updated local mapping guidelines as well as reveals the dynamics of institutionalization. Through these indicators, this reality can be changed as follows: creation and maintenance of a recording data system for children and their families, and subsidies for formulating public policies to this population.
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Ponce, Larissa Garcia. "Estratégias e desafios do atendimento psicoterápico com crianças institucionalizadas: um estudo a partir da teoria de D.W. Winnicott." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20866.
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Previous issue date: 2018-03-16<br>Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq<br>This study aimed to investigate, through clinical case studies, the strategies and challenges found in the psychotherapeutic care of five children sheltered in an Institutional Shelter in a country town of São Paulo State. The reports of these sessions were analyzed based on psychoanalysis, with a greater emphasis on the contributions of D. Winnicott. Two aspects were examined with special attention: the established clinical management and the evolution of psychotherapy in each history. The instruments used to find and read these data were: life and sheltering history of the patients/participants, presented in the registration form of the institution, and clinical material from playful psychotherapy. In four of the five cases, the time of psychotherapy was short (five to ten sessions), due to an abrupt interruption of the psychotherapeutic processes. In the only case with a longer duration (thirty sessions), there was the possibility of a therapeutic withdrawal performed progressively. Regarding the treatment results, one patient did not show significant achievements; the others demonstrated benefits from the psychotherapeutic process and exhibited improvement in symptoms or thawing of emotional maturation. The role of each action of differentiated clinical management in the setting was listed and some of them served as coping strategies of some of the challenges that were interposed. In addition to these actions, the importance of the management promoted by the social environment to shelters was evidenced. In order for this to be guaranteed, both the sheltering institution and the Judiciary are expected to commit themselves to protect children from future trauma, especially those which could be avoided by a more judicious and realistic analysis of the family circumstances in each case. Finally, it was pointed out the need to implement psychotherapy services in Shelters throughout the country, as well as psychological care programs for those who return home after sheltering. This proposition is corroborated by the obvious importance of a listening, receiving and psychological support space for the recovery of personal maturation of deeply traumatized people, as postulated byWinnicott, in addition to actively collaborating in the construction of a healthy society and, therefore, more prepared to care for their children and adolescents<br>Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar, por meio de estudos de caso clínico, as estratégias e desafios encontrados no atendimento psicoterápico de cinco crianças acolhidas em um Abrigo Institucional do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Os relatos das sessões foram analisados com base na psicanálise, com maior ênfase nas contribuições de D. W. Winnicott. Dois aspectos foram examinados com atenção especial: o manejo clínico estabelecido e a evolução da psicoterapia em cada história. Os instrumentos utilizados para conhecer e interpretar os dados foram: história de vida e de abrigamento dos pacientes/participantes, presentes na ficha cadastral da instituição, e o material clínico proveniente da psicoterapia lúdica. Em quatro dos cinco casos, o tempo de psicoterapia foi curto (cinco a dez sessões) por ter ocorrido a interrupção abrupta dos processos psicoterápicos. No único caso com maior duração (trinta sessões), houve a possibilidade do desligamento terapêutico ser realizado progressivamente. No que se refere aos resultados dos atendimentos, uma paciente não apresentou conquistas significativas; os outros demonstraram se beneficiar do processo psicoterápico e exibiram melhora dos sintomas ou descongelamento do amadurecimento emocional. Elencou-se o papel de cada ação de manejo clínico diferenciado no setting, e algumas delas, serviram como estratégias de enfrentamento de alguns dos desafios que se interpuseram. Evidenciou-se, além destas ações, a importância do manejo promovido pelo ambiente social aos abrigados e, para que isto seja garantido, espera-se tanto da instituição de acolhimento quanto do Poder Judiciário que se comprometam a proteger as crianças de futuros traumas, especialmente daqueles que poderiam ser evitados com análises mais criteriosas e realistas das circunstâncias familiares em cada caso. Por fim, assinalou-se a necessidade de implementar serviços de psicoterapia nos Abrigos em todo país, além de programas de atendimento psicológico àqueles que retornam ao lar após o abrigamento. Tal proposição se corrobora pela evidente importância do espaço de escuta, acolhida e sustentação psicológica para a retomada do amadurecimento pessoal de pessoas profundamente traumatizadas, como postulado por Winnicott, além de colaborar ativamente na construção de uma sociedade saudável e, portanto, mais preparada para cuidar de suas crianças e adolescentes
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RICARDO, JULIANA DE SOUZA. "THE INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN FACE TO THE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHIN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXT OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18903@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente garante a todas as crianças e
adolescentes o direito a conviver com sua família e em sua comunidade. Contudo,
ao se falar de criança e adolescente com deficiência percebe-se a fragilização
deste direito frente às especificidades advindas do cuidado necessário. Isso se dá
apesar dos diversos documentos legais apontarem para a importância da
centralidade na família na formação de crianças e adolescentes, entendendo-a
como espaço de proteção e desenvolvimento social. No entanto, a deficiência
requer da família um cuidado maior gerando uma sobrecarga, na maioria dos
casos, sobre um membro familiar no que tange ao cuidado. Quando temos a
associação da deficiência à pobreza vemos a situação se agravar ainda mais
levando, em determinados casos, muitas famílias a buscarem na
institucionalização a melhor saída para o cuidado de seus filhos. O processo
histórico da institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes com deficiência
perpassa dois outros processos: a assistência voltada à infância em situação de
risco ou de vulnerabilidade social e ao movimento de ascensão da Psiquiatria no
que se refere aos estudos sobre a criança anormal. A cultura da
institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes perdurou por muito tempo em nosso
país. Com o Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente ganha força a proposta da
desinstitucionalização, proposta esta reforçada por diversos documentos no
âmbito das políticas públicas anos mais tarde. O objetivo desta dissertação é
analisar os motivos que ainda levam à institucionalização, crianças e adolescentes
com deficiência no município do Rio de Janeiro, mesmo após duas décadas da
promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente e dos avanços advindos a
partir dos novos marcos legais voltados a essa parcela da população. A análise
tem como base duas fontes de informação: uma revisitação dos dados colhidos
pela pesquisa Do confinamento ao acolhimento: mudando a prática de
institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes com deficiência no Estado do Rio
de Janeiro (CIESPI, em convênio com a PUC-Rio: CNPq/Ministério da Saúde
2006-2008) e uma nova consulta de dados realizada a partir de visitas e entrevistas
com diretores ou representantes das Instituições de Acolhimento localizadas no
município do Rio de Janeiro (2010-2011).<br>The Statute on the Child and the Adolescent guarantees all children and
adolescents the right to live within family and community contexts. Nevertheless,
when it comes to children and adolescents with disabilities it is clear that access to
their rights is not assured due to several specificities resulting from the special
care they need. This occurs in spite of the various legal documents that stress the
importance of the family context for the full development and protection of
children and adolescents. However, children with disabilities require of the
family greater attention and health care generating a burden in
most cases, to family members. When in addition there is poverty, the burden is
heavier and often families feel pressed to seek for alternative care in institutions as
a possible best way for the care of their children. The historical process
of placing children and adolescents with disabilities in institutions presents two
main characteristics: the assistance aimed at children at risk, perceived as socially
vulnerable and the establishment of a movement led by psychiatry focusing on the
abnormal child. The so called culture of institutionalization of children and
adolescents long persisted in our country. With the approval of the Statute on the
Child and the Adolescent in 1990s a strong movement against the placement of
children in institutions takes place. This movement was then strengthened by
several policies approved in the subsequent years. The main objective of this
thesis is to analyze the reasons that still lead to the placement of children
and adolescents with disabilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, even two
decades after the enactment of the Statute. It also focus on the advances that
followed the new legal framework aimed at this segment of the population. The
analysis is based on two sources of information: a revisit of the data collected
by the study From institutionalization to a family setting: changing the
practice of institutionalizing children and adolescents with disabilities in the State of Rio de Janeiro (coordinated by the International Center for Research and
Policy on Childhood, CIESPI, in partnership with PUC-Rio and sponsored by
CNPq/ Ministry of Health, 2006-2008) and new data collected through visits
and interviews with directors and representatives of the institutions for children
with disabilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro (2010-2011).