scholarly journals Young Carers in Northern Ireland: Perceptions of and Responses to Illness and Disability within the Family

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1162-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene McGibbon ◽  
Trevor Spratt ◽  
Gavin Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Informal Care ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Young Carers ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Differential Outcomes ◽  
Young Carer ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Difficulties

Abstract This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken with twenty-two young carers across Northern Ireland aged between eight and eighteen. It focuses on their experiences as informal care-givers in households where at least one family member was living with an illness and/or disability. While much has been written about the quantifiable aspects of informal care including the number of hours spent caring and the physical nature of caring tasks, this approach has tended to subsume individual experiences within the category ‘young carer’ and fails to differentiate between sub-populations of children and young people whose caring relationships may be very disparate. Whilst there has been a tendency to focus on the vulnerability of young carers, explanations as to why some experience greater physical, emotional and psycho-social difficulties than others are underdeveloped. It has been suggested that differential outcomes may be attributable to a capacity for resilience, which can lessen vulnerability. The study examined the protective and risk factors, which might help to promote or challenge the resilience of young carers. It was found that knowledge of and response to both the nature and trajectory of illness or disability contributed to young carers’ capacity for resilience.

scholarly journals ‘Living upside down’: being a young carer of a parent with mental illness

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cooklin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Carers ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Young Carer ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Parents With Mental Illness

SummaryMost children and young people who have a parent with mental illness will not think of themselves as carers. They may think of themselves as surviving, as lonely and isolated, and of suffering all the common experiences listed in this article. Many parents with mental illness will not acknowledge that their child has become their carer rather than the converse. So many children and young people may be left vulnerable to sometimes extremely damaging and distressing situations but without a role that recognises their contribution or even commands appropriate respect. There is a danger that simply defining these children and young people as ‘young carers’ may provide a cloak of acceptability for allowing quite intolerable demands to be made on them. However, young carers do have some level of support in the UK in the form of young carers' groups. So, with the above provisos, that is the focus of this article.

Expectations and attitudes affecting patterns of informal care in farming families in Northern Ireland

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEIRDRE HEENAN
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Informal Care ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Farm Families ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Financial Costs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Farming Families ◽  
Informal Carers

Recent research in Northern Ireland examining the needs and circumstances of informal carers has highlighted the personal and financial costs of caring. In this paper it is argued that these studies have taken no account of the particular expectations and attitudes towards informal care that exist within farm families. In these families there is a strong expectation that care for older relatives will take place almost entirely within the family. The reputation of the farm family within the local community is strongly dependent on their treatment of the older generation. Help from the state and the voluntary sector is extremely limited. Rather than being described as burdensome and difficult, these family arrangements are described as beneficial for everyone involved. It is argued that expectations and attitudes towards care within farm families are significantly different from those in non-farm families and policy makers and practitioners must take account of this in the context of care in the community.

Young carers: ‘You are not alone’

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Laura Abbott-Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Young Carers ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Young Carer

It is essential that professionals working with children and young people meet the needs of young carers, and that young carers themselves know that they are not alone and that help is available to them. In this article, Laura Abbott-Mitchell shares her story as a young carer, her struggles and advice to others.

scholarly journals Holiday Club Programmes in Northern Ireland: The Voices of Children and Young People

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1337
Author(s):  
Jackie Shinwell ◽  
Ellen Finlay ◽  
Caitlin Allen ◽  
Margaret Anne Defeyter
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Young People ◽  
School Children ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
High Level

In Northern Ireland, nearly 30% of children are thought to be at risk of going hungry in the summer holidays when they are unable to access free school meals. Community groups, voluntary groups, local authorities, and faith groups have responded to this concern by developing and delivering holiday programmes that enable children from low-income families to take part in activities and access food. The current study used purposive sampling to investigate children’s and young people’s views of holiday provision, from across three holiday clubs, in Northern Ireland. Both primary school children (n = 34; aged 4–11) and secondary school children (n = 31; aged 12–17) showed high levels of awareness of poverty and food insecurity and associated pressures and stresses on households. Importantly, children and young people did not feel stigmatised about attending holiday provision, suggesting a positive and inclusive culture towards holiday club attendance. Children reported that they enjoyed the range of activities provided at holiday clubs and reported that attendance improved their self-confidence, especially for some older children, who acted as peer mentors to younger attendees, helped them to develop new skills, and provided them with opportunities to socialise with peers in a safe environment, out with their normal social groupings in school. Older children showed a high level of shrewdness and knowledge of sectarian divides in communities but spoke positively about how different religious or cultural backgrounds did not matter in terms of meeting and making new friends in holiday club settings. In terms of food provision, the findings of this study suggest that further work needs to be done to support children to access and eat healthy, nutritious food.

scholarly journals Assessment of Knowledge, Strains and Coping of the Family Care Givers Having Autistic Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-219
Author(s):  
Safaa Abu El-Soud ◽  
Wafaa Ouda ◽  
Somaya Abou Abdou ◽  
Manal Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Coping

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS OF PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-44
Author(s):  
Sejal Macwan ◽  
Ninad Jhala
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Report ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Health Report ◽  
The Family

Approximately 24 million people worldwide experiencing schizophrenia (The World Health Report, 2001). Several people with mental disorder have to rely on support of family and friends to help them in their day-to-day happenings. In that era, caregivers are at risk for physical and mental health dilemma.1 Caring for a person with any mental illness often creates physical, emotional dilemma among the family caregivers more than they think. That is why it is also essential to rationalize that issue too. Family care givers of patients with any mental illness have different perspectives and coping strategies about the situation that may lead to feeling of sadness, loneliness, helplessness, hopeless at a variance among the care givers. OBJECTIVES: • To study levels of psychological problems faced by the family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. • To study association between demographic variables and levels of psychological problems of family caregivers with schizophrenia. METHOD: A descriptive study was carried out to examine the psychological problems faced by family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. 200 family caregivers were selected by applying stratified systematic sampling method from the government hospitals of mental health of Gujarat state with a criterion of minimum facility of 100 beds. A self-structured interview schedule was designed for study purpose by referring the Burden Assessment Tool of Thara et.al (1998) and Zarit Burden Interview. RESULT: Majority of the respondents (51%) feel anxious, depressed and frustrated due to caregiving responsibility. Majority of the respondents (52.5%) believed that care giving responsibility is mentally tiring for the family caregivers. Majority of the respondents (40.5%) agree with the statement that their contacts with family & friends have lessened due to the illness of care receiver.

scholarly journals Interaction of school, family, and community in the spiritual and moral education of children and youth in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (I) ◽  
pp. 249-260
Author(s):  
Марія ФЛЯК
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Of Education ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
The Family ◽  
Universal Values

The author highlights the role of the school, family and the public in the spiritual and moral education of children and young people in particular and in the formation of personal children in general. It is substantiated that the interaction of school, family and the public contributes to the efficiency of education of the younger generation of the state. The problems of spiritual and moral upbringing faced by the family, the school, the public and the theory of education in general, require an immediate solution, no change or correction of some provisions, but a cardinal, final decision on the basis of Christian morality and eternal universal values.

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