scholarly journals Barriers Facing Social Workers Undertaking Direct Work with Children and Young People with a Learning Disability Who Communicate Using Non-Verbal Methods

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Anne Prynallt-Jones Malcolm Carey ◽  
Pauline Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Children And Young People

Exploring the Development of Reflective Capacity in Young People

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Hickson ◽  
Jennifer Lehmann ◽  
Fiona Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Reflective Capacity

People use reflection and reflective practice for many different reasons, including for self-care and to make sense of their experiences. In this study, social workers spoke about how they learned to be reflective, with many participants describing activities in their childhood that developed their reflective capacity. The aim of this article is to apply these ideas and examine the factors that enhance reflective capacity in children and young people. This research was part of a PhD study that involved interviews with 35 social workers in USA, Canada, UK and Australia. This exploratory study found that activities like story reading and asking children to reflect on their behaviour are early steps in the process of becoming reflective, but this needs to be followed up with conversations that deconstruct assumptions to make sense of experiences and explore multiple perspectives. This research is important for health and human service workers and others who want to develop reflective capacity in children and young people, particularly for children subject to disadvantage who need to overcome trauma and adversities.

How parents and children view the system

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
Clive Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Barriers And Enablers ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
System P ◽  
The Impact

This chapter considers children and parent’s perspectives of child protection conferences and whether they feel actively involved in decision making. It is based on interviews with 40 children and 52 parents in two local authorities whose children were subject to a child protection plan at the time. Most parents felt unsupported throughout the child protection process, reporting feelings of powerlessness, intimidation and fear. Parents reported that they found child protection conference particularly stigmatizing and oppressive and this led to them not trusting social workers and often other key agencies. A further interesting finding was that some parents felt sorry for their social workers and stated that they seemed stressed, clearly under too much pressure and often did not do what that said they could do. The chapter also considered young people’s views of social workers and what the barriers and enablers of good child protection practice are. This chapter highlights the high number of social workers young participants had; their relationships with their social worker and their perception of the child protection conference. The extent to which the young participants were aware of the impact of bureaucracy and high caseloads on the service they receive, coupled with the impact of the high turnover of social workers, was also examined. These factors impacted on how much the children and young people participated in the work that social workers were carrying out with them and the extent to which they trusted their social workers.

Social Work and the Education of Children in Foster Care

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Aldgate ◽  
Anthony Heath ◽  
Matthew Colton ◽  
Michael Simm
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Children In Foster Care

To what extent should social workers advocate the educational needs of children and young people in foster care? Jane Aldgate, Anthony Heath, Matthew Colton and Michael Simm present the findings of a recent study.

Experiences of CYP in specialist and inpatient care settings: a themed review

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Inpatient Care ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Inpatient Settings

The focus of this podcast is a themed review for the NIHR on the experience of children and young people caring for in mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient settings, produced by Candace Imison and Dr. Shaun Liverpool.

The Future of Our Histories: Young Rural Voices from Dullstroom-Emnotweni

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rural South Africa

This article reports on three sets of interviews conducted with children and young people living in Dullstroom-Emnotweni on the Mpumalanga Highveld in eastern South Africa. Firstly, 50 learners between the ages of 10 and 14 were interviewed on their dreams for the future. Later that year, in 2011, a total of 60 young people who were still unemployed ten or more years after having finished school were interviewed on what was left of their dreams. Five years later, in 2016, a third group of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 were interviewed in order to establish whether the situation of marginalised young people in rural South Africa had changed. The primary school learners expressed their career hopes in terms of the needs of their marginalised society, that is, to become nurses, teachers and social workers. The first group of young people interviewed in 2011 blamed their shattered dreams on the unavailability of tertiary education and the reality of HIV infection. The second group, interviewed in 2016, quite similarly, expressed their concerns as a lack of job and educational opportunities, a lack of agency and choice, a lack of respect from society and decision makers, and an inability to escape from drugs and unhealthy sex.

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