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Guide for parents with children in care 101 questions and answers
- Author:
- BENNETT Tony
- Publisher:
- Parents Aid
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
“It is not just about doing or saying the right things”: Working systemically with parents whose children are placed in public care
- Authors:
- SYRSTAD Ellen, NESS Ottar
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 43(3), 2021, pp.458-468.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article explores the possibilities of a systemic approach in the support of parents whose children are placed in public care. The article is based on a qualitative study interviewing six parents who have received support from Norwegian Family Counselling Services (FCS) and seven systemic family therapists from FCS. Both groups were interviewed individually and in focus groups. The findings suggest that parents experienced less judgement from therapists in FCS than from caseworkers in CPS. Even if it could be challenging, the systemic therapists found a systemic approach useful to help parents develop agency and make meaning of their lives, as the parents struggled to have agency and understand why their children were placed in care. The article concludes that systemic approaches can be useful in these cases, combined with appropriate child protection interventions as necessary. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parents' experiences of family team meetings in child welfare
- Author:
- ROCKHILL Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 26(3), 2021, pp.370-378.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes the benefits of monthly family team meetings for parents involved with child welfare. Findings are shared from semi-structured, qualitative interviews conducted with 17 parents whose children had been placed in substitute care. While much of the scholarship on family meetings focuses on opportunities for family voice, this study found that parents received multiple benefits from meetings including, but not limited to, the opportunity for input into decision-making. Specifically, parents appreciated receiving information and feedback, encouragement, and a range of other supports from members of the team. Meetings also facilitated communication and improved the coordination of services and other efforts by team members. Notably, parents reported that regular meetings helped to hold caseworkers and other providers accountable regarding their activities and duties related to the case, often resulting in better follow through. Parents and their advocates were also able to use meetings to push child welfare to respond in a timely way to parents' progress. These findings should be viewed as preliminary evidence of how a particular model of family meetings might work and thereby expand our understanding of what family team decision meetings can do to improve parents' experiences and child welfare outcomes more generally. (Edited publisher abstract)
Across the divide
- Author:
- SINCLAIR Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.10.01, 2001, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Children from Northern Ireland's cross-community families are over-represented in the care system. Explores the possible reasons.
Intensive aftercare services for children
- Authors:
- HODGES V.G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Casework, 70(7), September 1989, pp.397-4O4.
- Publisher:
- Alliance for Children and Families
Description of a program to prepare children and their parents for the return home from residential care.
Self-help for parents with children in care
- Authors:
- MONACO Marianne, THOBURN June
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 36p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Substitute care: who provides the parenting?
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Parental access to children in care - the research message
- Author:
- MARSH P.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 1(1), 1987, pp.71-80.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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Family links: a manager's role
- Author:
- ATHERTON C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Insight, 14.11.86, 1986, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
Points out practical steps needed for improving parental access.
Children in care: the association with mental disorder in patients
- Authors:
- ISAAC B.C., MINTY E.B., MORRISON R.M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 16(3), June 1986, pp.325-339.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Report of a study of 31 families of children who had stayed in care for at least 12 months, and of 26 families with children who had been in care for up to 3 months. Information about the parents' mental health was obtained from social work records, psychiatric records and interviews with the parents. The parents of children in care for the longer period were more likely to have received psychiatric treatment and appeared to suffer from more severe or longstanding disorders, as evidenced by admissions into psychiatric hospital and type of psychiatric diagnosis. However, the most striking finding was the high rate of past and current psychiatric disorder in the total sample of parents; this appeared to be an important factor influencing children's admissions into, and discharge from, care.