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Professional carers’ attachment style and reflective functioning: links with adolescent behavioral and emotional adaptation in residential care
- Authors:
- PASCUZZO Katherine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 126, 2021, p.106044.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
While previous research has underscored the importance of the professional carer-adolescent relationship in residential care as a means for promoting youth adaptation, very little is known on the processes at work. Namely, can professional carers’ interest and curiosity in adolescents’ mental states mitigate the negative associations between professional carers’ insecure attachment and adolescents’ behavioral and emotional adaptation? This is an important question to examine given that insecure attachment among carers may constitute an important obstacle to developing positive relationships with adolescents in their care. Thirty-four dyads consisting of professional carers and adolescent boys living in juvenile residential care units took part in the current study. Carers completed the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) as well as an adapted version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). Adolescents completed the Youth Self-Report (YSR) and Psychological Availability and Reliance on Adult (PARA) questionnaires as indicators of their socio-emotional adaptation. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that lower carer anxious attachment and greater carer reflective functioning (interest and curiosity in mental states) were associated with fewer youth internalizing problems. Furthermore, carers’ reflective functioning was found to moderate the association between carers’ anxious attachment and both youth internalizing and externalizing problems. Specifically, for carers low in reflective functioning, as their levels of anxious attachment increased, so did adolescents’ internalizing behavior problems. For carers high in reflective functioning, anxious attachment was not related to youth internalizing problems. A similar moderation effect was found for youth externalizing problems. For carers low in reflective functioning, as their levels of anxious attachment increased, so did adolescents’ externalizing behavior problems. For carers high in reflective functioning, anxious attachment was not related to youth externalizing problems. The role of carers’ reflective functioning, abilities that can be developed and enhanced despite one’s insecure attachment, within the context of residential care is discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
UK Missing Persons Bureau: missing persons data report 2015/2016
- Author:
- NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY
- Publisher:
- National Crime Agency
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 50
- Place of publication:
- London
Revised report providing key statistical data on missing people reported to Great Britain police in 2015/16, based on information supplied to the UK Missing Persons Bureau (UKMPB). The data includes information on the numbers of people reported missing, demographics, incidents of harm whilst missing, the reasons for people going missing, and an analysis of children and adults missing from care. Figures indicate that in 2015/16 year, across the 42 English and Welsh police forces that provided data there were 242,190 missing incidents related to 135,382 missing individuals. The report shows a greater number of police forces have been able to indicate how many incidents relate to those missing from care than in previous years, with only 23 police forces able to show data for both adult and child incident and individuals in 2014/15 in comparison to 29 police forces in 2015/16. These 29 police forces recorded 43,270 incidents, the majority of which relate to children as was the case in 2014/15 (89 per cent compared with 87 per cent respectively). (Edited publisher abstract)
An exploration of the differential usage of residential childcare across national boundaries
- Authors:
- AINSWORTH Frank, THOBURN June
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 23(1), 2014, pp.16-24.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The use of residential placements for children needing out-of-home care remains controversial. This article considers the discourse of ‘residential’ and ‘institutional’ care before describing, mainly through administrative data sources, the wide variations in group-care usage in different jurisdictions. In some countries, its use is minimal, with foster care, kinship care and in some cases, adoption being the preferred options. This is not so in other countries where a high percentage of children in care are in residential placements. There is also diversity in the type of residential services, ranging from small group homes to large institutions. The challenges inherent in making process and outcome comparisons across national boundaries are explored. The authors concur with those who argue for more systematic ways of describing and analysing the aims and characteristics of residential settings. Only then can meaningful comparisons be made between outcomes from group-care regimes in different jurisdictions. (Publisher abstract)
Welfare resources among children in care
- Authors:
- SALLNÄS Marie, WIKLUND Stefan, LAGERLÖF Hélène
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 15(4), 2012, pp.467-483.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study investigated living conditions in on-going foster and residential care for 272 children, aged 13 to 18 years, in three counties in mid-Sweden. Using concepts from welfare research and replicated national surveys of living conditions on a population of placed children, the authors assessed the extent to which these children enjoy such a standard while in care. In other words, it is possible to assess the compensatory capacity of state care for a population of children that has been recognised as deprived in terms of welfare resources in their birth families. The conclusion concerning the welfare dimensions studied is that children in care in general have less access to resources than their peers in the normal population. This holds particularly true for children in residential care, where the differences are substantial. In other words, the care context differentiates the extent to which society acts to compensate for the initial disadvantaged position from which children in care often originate. Implications for practice are discussed.
Care planning for children in residential care
- Author:
- KANE Sheree
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Although there are different types of plans relating to specific activities, making sense of what is required can be as daunting for those working in the residential sector as it is for the children and young people for whom these different plans are intended. The aim of this practice document is to break down exactly what is meant by care planning for looked after children.
One-person children's homes: a positive choice or a last resort?
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report looks at how children respond to living on their own in single-place children’s homes.
Facing forward: residential child care in the 21st century
- Editors:
- CRIMMENS David, MILLIGAN Ian, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 200p.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
How can residential child care - in children’s homes and all kinds of residential schools, whether for shorter or longer periods - make the journey from last resort to a positive choice for young people? Designed to stimulate thinking and promote debate about the necessary, purposeful and positive possibilities of group care for those who can no longer live at home, either temporarily on in the longer term, this book is organised around their rights – to care as well as within care.
Children in care: a ChildLine information sheet
- Author:
- CHILDLINE
- Publisher:
- Childline
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In the past, most children in care lived in large residential care homes. Nowadays, more than two-thirds of the UK’s 78,500 looked after children live in foster homes (in a household with another family or carer). About one in eight live in residential care homes, which are now much smaller than they once were, usually housing less than ten children.
Children in residential accommodation: statistics for 1998-1999
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive National Statistics
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Study of small unregistered children's homes
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying a national study of the use of small unregistered children's homes by SSDs.