scholarly journals Troubling Meanings of “Family” for Young People Who Have Been in Care: From Policy to Lived Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (16) ◽  
pp. 2239-2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Cross National

This article seeks to trouble the concept of “family” for young people who have been in out-of-home care, by reflecting on the continuing significance (and troubles) of family relationships beyond childhood. The analysis draws on two cross-national studies in Europe: Beyond Contact, which examined policies and systems for work with families of children in care, and Against All Odds?, a qualitative longitudinal study of young adults who have been in care. Policy discourses that reify and instrumentalize the concept of family—for example, through the language of “contact,” “reunification,” and “permanence”—neglect the complex temporality of “family” for young people who have been in care, negotiated and practiced across time and in multiple (and changing) care contexts, and forming part of complex, dynamic and relational identities, and understandings of “belonging” for young adults who have been in care.

Resilience, Transitions, and Youth Leaving Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbie Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Youth Transitions

This chapter discusses resilience in the lives of care leavers. Youth transitions can be especially challenging for young adults who face major adversity in their lives as they negotiate early encounters with adult life. One such group is young people leaving out-of-home care at the official age, in many jurisdictions, of 18 years. Young people leaving care often do not have the luxury of extending the timing of their transitions, as may be the case for their peers not in care; circumstances force them to make early transitions and, typically, without the level of support their more fortunate peers may be able to call on. Yet many young adults leaving care do quite well; they manage to display resilience. They find resources in their social ecology which help them to manage the process of their transitions. This chapter explores the background to such displays of resilience and how former caregivers and other concerned adults may help to stimulate and sustain such resilience. It also argues that support from concerned adults in arenas such as education and work may be especially helpful in promoting resilience to adversity among youth transitioning to adulthood from care.

“Only a Friend”

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iren Johnsen ◽  
Kari Dyregrov
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Depth Interviews

Friendships are very important for human beings, and especially for young people, but few studies have explored the consequences of losing a close friend. To identify and help this often overlooked population of bereaved, we need more knowledge of their bereavement processes. This study is part of a larger longitudinal study which aims to increase awareness of bereaveds’ situation after the killings at Utøya, Norway, July 22, 2011. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 young adults on the experiences of losing their close friend. Themes identified were how circumstances of the event complicate the grieving, the daily experiences of the loss, and recognition of friends as bereaved. Findings show that the loss of a close friend has had a profound effect on the young people, and the loss of a friend is also a distinct loss that is not comparable to other losses.

Policy and practice supports for young people transitioning from out-of-home care: An analysis of six recent inquiries in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 599-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Mendes ◽  
Samone McCurdy
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
The Impact

Summary Government and parliamentary inquiries into child protection have historically exerted a significant impact on policy and practice reform. Yet to date, there has been no analysis of the impact of such inquiries on programme and service supports for young people transitioning from out-of-home care (often termed leaving care). This article uses a content analysis methodology to critically examine and compare the findings of six recent Australian child protection inquiries (five at state and territory level and one Commonwealth) in relation to their discrete sections on leaving care. Attention is drawn to how the policy issue is framed including key terminology, the major concerns identified, the local and international research evidence cited and the principal sources of information including whether or not priority is given to the lived experience of care leavers. Findings All six inquiries identified major limitations in leaving care legislation, policy and practice including poor outcomes in key areas such as housing, education and employment. There was a consensus that post-18 assistance should be expanded, and most of the reports agreed that greater attention should be paid to the specific cultural needs of the large number of Indigenous care leavers. Applications Care leavers universally are a vulnerable group; leaving care policy should be informed by the lived experience and expertise of care leavers; governments have a responsibility to provide ongoing supports beyond 18 years of age, particularly in areas such as housing and education, training and employment

A longitudinal study of general practitioner consultations for psychiatric disorders in adolescence

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Smeeton ◽  
Greg Wilkinson ◽  
David Skuse ◽  
John Fry
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnoses

SynopsisPatterns of psychiatric diagnoses given during adolescence to a group of individuals continuously registered with a single general practitioner in South London over 20 years were analysed first during ‘early adolescence’ and secondly during ‘early adulthood’. Psychiatric diagnoses were found to be relatively common. Of the young adolescents who received a psychiatric diagnosis (almost one in ten of the group), 38% received a psychiatric diagnosis as young adults compared with only 16% of the remainder. Comorbidity was found to be very common – over 50% of young adults with a diagnosis of depression also had a diagnosis of anxiety and phobic neuroses. Young people with problems of a psychological nature therefore deserve more attention, particularly from the primary care team.

scholarly journals A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Rachel M. Hiller ◽  
Richard Meiser‐Stedman ◽  
Elizabeth Elliott ◽  
Rosie Banting ◽  
Sarah L. Halligan
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Cognitive Predictors ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Post Traumatic

The Temporality of Being NEET: A Longitudinal Study of NEET Occurrences among Young Adults in Denmark

Young ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 110330882094509
Author(s):  
Helle Bendix Kleif
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
Qualitative Literature ◽  
Cross National

The NEET concept has become standard vocabulary when addressing youth disengagement. Across countries, the definition is used to measure young adults at risk of social exclusion. Using sequence and clustering analyses on unique Danish register data, this article presents a longitudinal study of the temporal developments of NEET occurrences. This enables a critical assessment of the quality of the NEET concept as a proxy for measuring young adults at risk of social exclusion. The article demonstrates how four out of five young adults labelled NEET cannot be characterized as being at risk of social exclusion. Using quantitative analyses, the results confirm the criticism of the NEET concept in some of the qualitative literature and find that there is a need to discuss the applicability of the concept nationally to define who is at risk, as well as in cross-national comparisons of young adults not in employment, education or training.

scholarly journals Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802612097034
Author(s):  
Rachel Thomson ◽  
Jeanette Østergaard
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Metaphorical Thinking ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Adult Lives ◽  
New Generation ◽  
First Offers

In this article we engage critically with how metaphors have been used in sociological youth studies, including a turn to new metaphors that capture the foreclosure of futures and experiences of waiting, delay and non-institutional temporalities. Drawing on the resources of queer theory we challenge the developmentalism that underpins youth studies, employing notions of the impasse and growing sideways to capture the open-endedness of young adult lives. Working with data from a qualitative longitudinal study of Danish youth, we focus on how 47 young people responded to an invitation to talk about and through an object that represented the last three years of their lives. These rich accounts can be understood as examples of Paul Riceour’s ‘metaphoric discourse’, characterised by the simultaneity of ‘is’ and ‘is not’. The article first offers a schema of the biographical objects (trophies, hobbies, mortal, connective and protest) that captures the work of ‘being in time’ for young adults, mapping this onto the formal and informal markers of adulthood. We then engage with participants’ own metaphorical thinking in greater depth – suggesting that the paradoxical metaphors that emerge from their talk can expand how we understand the struggle for maturity. The metaphor of open-endedness is offered as a hybrid term, allowing us to look in two directions at once: capturing and comparing transitions as part of a project of social justice, while also recognising the limits of such frameworks for understanding the experiences of a new generation.

scholarly journals “Surviving not thriving”: experiences of health among young people with a lived experience in out-of-home care

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 809-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelaine Smales ◽  
Melissa Savaglio ◽  
Heather Morris ◽  
Lauren Bruce ◽  
Helen Skouteris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Out Of Home Care

scholarly journals A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Cognitive Predictors ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
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