#COVID#BACKTOSCHOOL: Qualitative study based on the voice of Portuguese adolescents

Although the literature discusses the deleterious educational outcomes that foster care students endure, little attention has focused on school personnel's responses to the phenomenon. Despite the documented relationship between foster care and special education, a missing contribution is the voice of special education administrators. In turn, the present qualitative study explored six special education administrators’ accounts of their leadership response to foster care situations. The intent was to analyze the extent to which their responses were collaborative with internal and external constituents. The use of Rubin's (2002) theoretical framework for school-based collaborative leadership framed the analysis and exposed the administrators’ strengths and shortcomings. Their narratives incurred implications for preservice and in-service special education administrators.

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“Hey, we also have something to say”: A qualitative study of Portuguese adolescents’ and young people's experiences under COVID‐19

Journal of Community Psychology ◽

10.1002/jcop.22453 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (8) ◽

pp. 2740-2752 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Cátia Branquinho ◽

Colette Kelly ◽

Lourdes C. Arevalo ◽

Anabela Santos ◽

Margarida Gaspar de Matos

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Portuguese Adolescents

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Experiences of Domestic Violence among Newly Arrived Afghan Women in Australia, a Qualitative Study

The British Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1093/bjsw/bcaa143 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rojan Afrouz ◽

Beth R Crisp ◽

Ann Taket

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Social Work ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Physical Violence ◽

Work Practice ◽

Social Work Practice ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Afghan Women ◽

The Voice ◽

Inductive Analysis

Abstract The voice of Afghan women has been little heard, particularly in Australia and other western societies, despite the considerable number living in those societies. The main aim of this study was to understand Afghan women’s experiences of domestic violence and their perceptions about the extent of domestic violence among the Afghan community in Australia. The study involved semi-structured interviews with twenty-one Afghan women who had been living in Australia between six months and ten years. The interviews were conducted in either Farsi (Persian) or English according to participant’s preferences. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. An inductive analysis of the data was used to explore details and build main themes. Some women spoke about their experiences of domestic violence, mainly psychological and emotional violence. Although women insisted that domestic violence was prevalent and widespread in both contexts, many remarked that Afghan women were less vulnerable to physical violence in Australia than in Afghanistan. This article concludes with a number of implications for social work practice based on the study findings.

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