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{"title":"What criteria do foster care workers take into account when recommending foster children's visiting arrangements with their birth parents","authors":"Frank Van Holen,&nbsp;Jordy Moens,&nbsp;Lisa Van Hove,&nbsp;Camille Verheyden,&nbsp;Johan Vanderfaeillie","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13074","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Concept mapping was used to identify criteria foster care workers in Flanders use to regulate visiting arrangements for birth parents of foster children. A sample of 43 foster care workers were asked to answer in writing the question: ‘What criteria do you take into account when you have to regulate visiting arrangements?’ Fifty unique answers were identified by three researchers. In a second phase, 32 foster care workers individually grouped together the statements that according to them covered the same topic. Furthermore, they were asked to indicate the degree of importance and the difficulty to assess each response on a 7-point scale. Multidimensional scaling and hierarchic cluster analyses identified five clusters of criteria: child related criteria, attitudes of birth parent(s), criteria related to placement conditions, interaction with birth parents and criteria related to foster parents. Although sometimes differently grouped or named, the criteria mentioned by foster care workers were almost entirely in line with findings from other research. Foster care workers considered most criteria rather easy to assess. However, the more important criteria were (child related criteria and attitudes of birth parent[s]), the more difficult they were considered to assess. Identification of these criteria can help to improve and systemize the decision-making process.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 1","pages":"259-269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124549704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘If my parents find out, I will not see my phone anymore’: Who do children choose to disclose online sexual solicitation to?","authors":"Netanel Gemara PhD,&nbsp;Faye Mishna PhD,&nbsp;Carmit Katz PhD","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13069","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Child online sexual solicitation has become a significant form of child sexual abuse. Disclosure of online sexual solicitation is a multifaceted and complex process. The role of the disclosure recipient is crucial in the disclosure process, with respect to the initiation of the disclosure, how much children disclose, recantations and the children's well-being. The current study aimed to explore children's experiences, perceptions, challenges and obstacles regarding disclosing online sexual solicitation as revealed in their forensic interviews. The sample, obtained from the Service of Forensic Interviews with Children in Israel, included 32 Israeli children who were sexually solicited online and participated in forensic interviews. A thematic qualitative methodology was used to analyse the children's narratives. The findings demonstrated that children tend to disclose online sexual solicitation to their peers and not to their parents. The children provided three main reasons for this tendency: sexuality, technology and the recipient's response. The current study's findings highlight the important role of peers in the disclosure process of online sexual solicitation. Moreover, the findings reveal children's difficulties disclosing online sexual solicitation to their parents. Practical implications of children's online sexual solicitation disclosure, future recommendations and study limitations are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"30 1","pages":"4-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131492372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out-of-home care: The HEAR practice model","authors":"Kenny Kor,&nbsp;Jodie Park,&nbsp;Rashelle Dear,&nbsp;Belinda Fabrianesi","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13072","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children in out-of-home care may experience multiple losses, from separation from birth parents and siblings to loss of friendships, culture, and sense of belonging and normality. The impacts of these significant losses on a child's development and wellbeing have typically been the subject of childhood trauma research. While understanding the impact is important, children's experiences of the losses and the ways adults can support them to grieve are less explored in research. Recently, out-of-home care researchers have begun to address this knowledge gap by applying the concept of ambiguous loss to capture and understand children's grief and loss. This article builds on this work and reports findings of a qualitative study that involved 30 out-of-home care practitioners. Constructivist Grounded Theory was applied to analyse the research data which resulted in the HEAR model that outlines the practice components that out-of-home care practitioners considered important in effectively responding to children's experience of ambiguous loss. These components are (1) <b>H</b>onouring ambiguous loss; (2) <b>E</b>stablishing a care community; (3) <b>A</b>ttuning to the lack of finality of ambiguous loss and (4) <b>R</b>educing ambiguity. This article presents research findings that supported the development of the HEAR model, and discusses its implications for out-of-home care practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 1","pages":"248-258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132632255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘You've got to love her’—Perceptions of birth mothers among children in long-term foster care","authors":"Judite Ie,&nbsp;Ingunn T. Ellingsen","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13071","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research shows differences in gendered caring expectations between mothers and fathers across countries and how they are affected by the development of different family forms and cultural practices. In this study, we explore the meaning that 14 children and youths in long-term non-kinship foster care in Spain ascribe to their birth mothers. We found three main perspectives among the participants. Within these perspectives, age, gender and socio-cultural context seem to be intertwined in how children and youths in foster care perceive their birth mother's role in their lives. The analysis gives insight into the complexity of child–mother relationships and how young people navigate these. In light of these findings, we discuss some practical implications for social workers in child protection services.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 1","pages":"239-247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124174706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social work's colonial past with Indigenous children and communities in Australia and Canada: A cross-national comparison","authors":"Dr. Nilan Yu,&nbsp;Associate Professor Marina Morgenshtern,&nbsp;Professor Jeanette Schmid","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13070","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers a cross-national comparison of social work in two countries, Australia and Canada, about the care of Indigenous children within the context of colonization and the evolving profession. The discussion is based on data from two empirical studies that examined professional discourse relating to the removal of Indigenous children from their families and Indigenous peoples more broadly within key historical time frames. The studies involved a content analysis of the flagship journals of the Australian and Canadian professional associations. It is argued that a critical interrogation of professional discourse within these historical and national particularities provides insights that can inform a broader understanding of how practices and constructions of social work are shaped within contemporary practice contexts. The studies revealed that very little attention was paid to problematizing colonial policies and practices, including the state-sanctioned forcible removal of countless Indigenous children from their biological families, while the professions in both countries were complicit in the oppressive treatment of Indigenous peoples that have left a legacy of intergenerational trauma. The findings suggest a way of understanding social work as a discipline beyond the historical specificities of the two countries that has relevance to social work across the globe.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 1","pages":"229-238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123979960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vulnerabilities among children of rag-pickers: Examining health inequalities in the context of sustainable development goal 3","authors":"Aishwarya Gautam PhD,&nbsp;Dr Subhasis Bhadra","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13067","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13067","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Urban poverty is spreading at a rampant pace in the developing world. Children of rag-pickers are the product of urbanized system, born and brought up into underprivileged setups which restricts their opportunities. These children are exposed to all kinds of abuse and neglect due to their living conditions. The contemporary default support system continuously reinforces higher degree of vulnerability due to the engagement in stigmatized occupation of rag-picking followed by this community, imposing restrictions on access to basic services. These families live on streets and their children suffer from health inequalities and nutritional deficiencies. Right from the launch of SDGs, ‘no one should be left behind’ has been reverberated but the children of rag-pickers are far behind. They require extensive interventions to emerge out of the vicious path of poverty and stigma to access basic services and fulfilment of human rights. The article investigates multidimensional vulnerabilities afflicting the children of rag-pickers intertwined with the targets of SDG 3. Healthcare is a human right to be ensured by the state and lack of access to it poses an important threat to ensure equity, inclusion and justice. The aim of the article is to highlight the health inequalities faced by young children of rag-pickers during their early childhood in the context of SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing). The study was conducted with 30 families engaged in rag-picking for at least 10 years in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Those families were included who had children below 8 years of age. Qualitative study was conducted using phenomenological approach. Five focused group discussions (FGDs) and 10 in-depth interviews were conducted with the parents to explore the health and wellbeing of rag-pickers' children based on four of the 13 targets of Goal 3. Observation checklist was used for mapping the living conditions of the families. Considering the different targets of the goal it was observed that from early age, children become addicted to tobacco, drugs, glue, thinner, etc. Inaccessibility to healthcare services is one of the major reasons which hindered the developmental opportunities of the children in the targeted group. Areas where such families reside were less frequently visited by the frontline health workers highlighting the neglecting attitude of the civil society. The rag-pickers usually made their settlements in areas where basic services are not provided by the government. They do not use safety gears and do not possess the technology-focused skills to enhance earning. Such situation creates a continuum of poverty which gets transgenerational often and suffering of the children continues. The findings accentuate multidimensional vulnerabilities through the lens of ascribed vulnerable status, apathy of government, existing skill-gap and non-inclusive developmental initiatives. The study substantiated the importance of SDG 3 in realization of rights of children belo","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"30 2","pages":"130-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128173055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing domestic violence risk assessments with children's perspectives: Exploring risk, vulnerability and protective factors through forensic interviews","authors":"Martina Vikander,&nbsp;Susanne Strand","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13068","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Effective risk management strategies for victims of domestic violence require an adequate risk assessment. While risk assessments for domestic violence typically focus on the adult victim, the risk of children who are exposed to such violence is often overlooked. This study aims to explore what risk, vulnerability and protective factors can be identified through forensic interviews with children exposed to domestic violence. A qualitative latent content analysis was conducted on documented forensic interviews with 41 children. The results show that children reported factors that should be taken into consideration when managing the risk of violence for their mother. In addition, the children's responses suggest the need for a separate risk management plan to address their needs and to protect them from re-victimization. Direct communication with children is crucial to identify factors that are unique to them. These results emphasize the significance of including their perspective in risk assessments for domestic violence to influence the risk management that includes both mothers and their children.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"30 2","pages":"120-129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121453587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating challenges and family resilience among Chinese families with cross-boundary students: A multisystemic approach","authors":"He Bu,&nbsp;Iris Kam-fung Liu,&nbsp;Xinli Chi,&nbsp;Nancy Xiaonan Yu","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13064","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Targeting families with cross-boundary students (CBSs, 跨境学童) who travel daily between Mainland China and Hong Kong for schooling, this study aimed to identify (a) the challenges that CBS families experience in their daily lives, especially during and following the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protest, and (b) the key resources and the interactions of these recourses within and across family systems that strengthened family resilience. Data from semi-structured interviews with 15 parents of CBS were analysed using thematic analysis, following Walsh's family resilience framework and multisystemic resilience views. The results showed that CBS families encountered three sources of challenges: <i>contextual challenges</i>, <i>chronic family challenges</i> and <i>structural challenges</i>. Despite challenges, we found that six types of resources interacted across multiple levels within and outside of the family: <i>collectivist-minded view of resilience</i>, <i>hope and perseverance</i>, <i>acceptance and strive, emotional regulation of self and others</i>, <i>family harmony</i> and <i>economic and instrumental supports</i>. These resources helped CBS families maintain family functioning, alleviate situational stress and facilitate family transformation. This study produced new knowledge about CBS families. Findings suggest that fostering the resilience of CBS families relies as much on the families themselves as it does on other structural supports.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"30 2","pages":"109-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132170002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The social support systems of mothers with problematic substance use in their infant's first year","authors":"Menka Tsantefski,&nbsp;Lynne Briggs,&nbsp;Dr. Jessica Griffiths","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The infants of women with histories of problematic alcohol and other drug use are among the most vulnerable children known to statutory child protection services, which they enter at a younger age, and in which they remain longer. The net results include overwhelmed child protection systems and the birth of subsequent children conceived to ease women's grief at the loss their infants. Without adequate and appropriate support to the mother and her family, the pattern repeats. Obstetric services have an important role to play in the assessment of risk and protective factors in the perinatal period and in determining pathways to service provision. A comprehensive assessment considers the availability and quality of informal support prior to activation of formal systems of support, both statutory, where engagement is mandated, and non-statutory, where support is offered on a voluntary basis. This paper uses quantitative methods to explore the social networks of women with problematic substance use in the transition to motherhood and the relationship between formal and informal support systems and infant outcomes. Surveys were held with two counsellors from the Women's Alcohol and Drug Service (WADS), a specialist obstetric clinic in Melbourne, Australia, and with 18 child protection workers. In addition, the Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire (Norbeck, 1984; Norbeck et al., 1983) was administered with 20 participating mothers to measure levels of formal and informal support, as well as the type and quality of support available to mothers over a 12-month period, and to consider the provision of social support against known outcomes for infants. The findings demonstrate that WADS counsellors made several referrals for most women but that there was little in the way of long-term follow-up by non-statutory service providers, with most women experiencing a dramatic drop in support over the 12-month period. Women whose main informal support was from a domestically violent partner, and those who had been in out-of-home care in their own childhood, were particularly vulnerable to losing the care of their infant. The role of child protection varied markedly across the 12-month period, particularly in relation to the extent that a relationship between formal and informal systems of support for mothers and their infants could be established. Overall, the study findings demonstrate that mothers experienced diminishing formal and informal support over time and that the quality of social support available to the mother was more important in terms of outcomes for women and their infants than the quantity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 4","pages":"831-841"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128507273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A qualitative study on parental mediation of rural-to-urban migrant children's smartphone use in China: Concerns, strategies and challenges","authors":"Dan Huang,&nbsp;Yingting Luo,&nbsp;Xinru He,&nbsp;Lihua Hong,&nbsp;Birong Zhang","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores parental mediation of smartphone use by rural-to-urban migrant children in China. A total of 16 migrant parents participated in semi-structured interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis is conducted to analyse the transcribed interviews. Findings indicate that migrant parents are highly concerned about the harmful impact of smartphone use on their children. Three parental mediation strategies mentioned in previous studies are confirmed, that is, restriction mediation, monitoring and active mediation, whereas a new mediation strategy, namely, activity substitution, is identified in this study. This study finds that the parents use a combination of different strategies for parental mediation. Furthermore, four themes identify the challenges in parental mediation: Lack of time, skills and helper for parenting and father's absence, inconsistency between parents' restrictive mediation and own overuse practices, the adverse effect of COVID-19 and the need for professional help. Finally, implications for social work practice are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 1","pages":"195-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128045552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}