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Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Practitioners' Perspectives on Engaging Adolescents in Collaborative Documentation in Municipal Child and Family Support Services

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adolescents' right to access their client records is closely tied to their right to participate. Few studies have examined collaborative documentation between practitioners and adolescents, but research suggests they are interested in reading what is recorded about them.
Kjellaug K. Myklebust, Helene Hoemsnes
wiley   +1 more source

Racial disparities in drug toxicology testing among pregnant women & infants: a meta-analysis and systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Aff Sch
Choi S   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Safety Assessment in Child Protection—A Survey Study With Dutch Child Protection Workers

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Safety assessment is a crucial part of child protective services to estimate acute and chronic danger in families that are at risk for child abuse in order to determine whether and which steps need to be taken to protect the child's safety. This study aimed to gain insight into the usefulness of the safety assessment procedure at Dutch child ...
B. Erens, H. Gerger, E. Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Consequences of Parents' Trust and Distrust of Social Workers in Child Welfare Services: Social Workers' Perspectives in Finland

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we explore the consequences of parents' trust and distrust of social workers in child welfare services. We collected data via qualitative surveys administered in 2022, to which 29 Finnish social workers responded. We used thematic analysis to identify the key themes of the consequences of trust in our data.
Eveliina Heino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parenting Support for Mothers Raised in Out‐Of‐Home Care

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research and social indicators consistently confirm that young people who exit statutory out‐of‐home care (OOHC) tend to remain socially and economically disadvantaged through young adulthood. The present article reports findings from a qualitative study of the perceived parenting support needs of eight mothers (aged 17–30 years) who had spent
Jamie Ussher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal and Paternal Extended Family Support Among Children in Foster Care: Associations With Internalizing Symptoms Trajectories

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior work suggests that children who are supported by their extended family kinship network experience fewer internalizing problems, with most of this support coming from the maternal side of the family. However, less is known about the unique contributions to well‐being associated with maternal versus paternal extended family support among ...
Kimberly R. Davenport   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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