Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children,birth family and social workers in Spain |
| |
| Institution: | 1. University of Lleida, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, Lleida, Spain;2. University of Barcelona, Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education, Barcelona, Spain;1. Department of Social and Public Health, Ohio University Zanesville, 1425 Newark Road, Zanesville, OH 43701, United States;2. School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Box 870314, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States;3. Silver School of Social Work, New York University, Ehrenkranz Center, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10003, United States;1. Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands;2. Department of Clinical and Lifespan Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;3. Praktikon, Nijmegen and Pactum, Arnhem, The Netherlands;4. Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, Praktikon and Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;5. Pleegzorg Vlaams-Brabant en Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;1. Université de Montréal, School of Social Work, Canada;2. McGill University, Centre for Research on Children and Families, Canada;3. McGill University, School of Social Work, Canada;4. University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work, Canada |
| |
| Abstract: | BackgroundFamily reunification refers to the process through which children and adolescents under a measure of temporary separation (foster care or residential) return to live with their biological families. The research has begun to reflect a paradigm change in intervention and support for these families that affects the consolidation of reunification and the prevention of new processes of separation and reentry into the protection system.ObjectivesThis article examines the needs of parents who are susceptible to an educational intervention from a positive focus that contributes to the consolidation of family reunification.MethodEighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted and 22 discussion groups were convened with 135 participants (63 protection-system professionals, 42 parents and 30 children and adolescents). The data were analyzed through content analysis and were subject to peer revision.ResultsA series of parents' specific educational needs when their children return home was recognized. These needs can be the objects of family intervention based on a positive focus directed toward highlighting parents' strengths and are related to awareness of family progress, emotional management, giving and receiving help from other families and social support. The participants' comments show that feelings of self-sufficiency and positive reinforcement are fundamental for consolidation of the process.ConclusionsSocial support through formal and informal networks may be a path to explore for providing more and better support after returning home. Empowering families so that they can be agents of support for other families can be a way to consolidate reunification, allowing families to be active agents in the reunification process. In addition, listening to children's voices can be a good strategy for family consolidation. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
