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{"title":"(Re)assembling the Self: Homeless Young People’s Identity Journeys and the Search for Ontological Security","authors":"P. Mayock","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2023.2199191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2023.2199191","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Homelessness is frequently assumed to be a fixed state that suspends people in time and space as they enter into contexts and environments where they struggle to exert control over their lives and their futures. Furthermore, a multitude of negative identities are ascribed to people who are homeless based on their lack of stable housing. A growing literature has contributed to a more nuanced understanding of the identity “work” engaged in by youth who experience homelessness. Nonetheless, most studies have examined the construction of identity cross-sectionally; in many cases, exclusively or primarily through the lens of youths’ experience of street and shelter life. Additionally, while the home has long since been argued to provide a secure base around which identities are constructed and ontological security attained, the intersection of identity with ontological security has, hitherto, not been adequately addressed within the youth homelessness literature. This paper examines the identity journeys of homeless young people based on selected findings from a six-year biographical longitudinal study of homeless youth in Dublin, Ireland. The analysis—which is organised according to the themes of rupture, the interruption of trust, and the (re)assembling of self—builds on existing studies by engaging with the concept of ontological security alongside an examination of young people’s accounts of, and reflections on, their journeys through and, in some cases, out of homelessness. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of understanding the identity stories of homeless youth through longitudinal biographical narration and addresses the policy implications arising from the findings presented.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"297 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43237489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tensions in Cultural Identity and Sense of Belonging for Internally Displaced Adolescents in Ukraine","authors":"Ian Thompson, Lyudmila Nurse, M. Fazel","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2023.2199192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2023.2199192","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the cultural, educational and mental health consequences of large-scale internal displacement for children and adolescents from the Donbas to other parts of Ukraine. The research findings and methodological innovations of the study are discussed in the context of forced migration and displacement caused by the previous (2014) armed conflict in East Ukraine and Donbas with additional challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Our data collection was halted by the military action in Ukraine that started in February 2022 that has caused another wave of forced migration. We reflect on the experience gained from conducting research on sensitive topics of displacement using online methods in the environment of restricted access to schools and adolescents. The adolescents who were interviewed described their experiences of displacement, which for some had taken place nearly eight years before. Trauma from conflict and displacement can have mental health, educational and social consequences for displaced adolescents. These displaced young people and their families face, as internally displaced populations, a double-edged sword in their relationship with their new contexts. They often have numerous challenges in their settling in a new location and public sphere given the existing ethnic, cultural and language diversity of Ukraine and yet have the advantage of being able to adopt and adapt to their new socio-cultural contexts relatively quickly and minimise their pre-migration identities, if they so wish.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"319 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44100234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Menka Tsantefski, A. Morrison","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2023.2187168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2023.2187168","url":null,"abstract":"This edition of Child Care in Practice builds the journal’s aim of highlighting often-neglected topics that are, paradoxically, of global interest. The edition commences with attention to health care in developing countries. These papers are diverse in focus and include a range of research approaches including qualitative studies utilising semi-structured interviews and focus groups, surveys, and large-scale administrative data. Combined, the papers demonstrate the effects of socioeconomic factors and lack of infrastructure on poor outcomes among infants and children. Limited access to services, cultural factors and the role of significant others in parental decision-making point to the value of community development and the need to consider children in the wider social context in which they, and their families, are embedded. The studies contribute to the evidence base for public health policies and practices in relation to children’s safety and well-being. The implications for children’s long-term health and developmental trajectories are not limited to the study settings—child poverty as a structural determinant in child outcomes, and the need for professionals to comprehend differences in childrearing practices—which cut across international jurisdictions and are of consequence for the range of professionals concerned with children’s services in both developing and economically developed nations. The first article in this edition addresses a major global health concern—morbidity, disability and mortality resulting from unintentional child injury in the home. Alrimawi et al. (2021) utilised naturalistic inquiry and maximum variation sampling to explore the perceptions of Palestinian primary healthcare professionals (n = 24) on factors facilitating or impeding the prevention of home injuries among children aged under five years in Ramallah. The findings indicate that professional, parental and environmental factors all play a role in preventable injury, disability and death. The specific need for more training and time for professionals to engage with and educate families was a salient finding. Additionally, low income was found to impede parental ability to create a safer environment for children. As possibly the first qualitative study reporting Palestinian health-care professionals’ perspectives of prevention of unintended child injury, the article makes a significant contribution to the literature. The following article, by Adonteng-Kissi (2021), examines the complexities and tensions of child labour in Ghana. This exploratory study, based on semi-structured interviews with parents whose children were or were not involved in child labour, considers the extent to which parents in rural and urban communities in Ghana view child labour as cultural or as an economic necessity. The study demonstrates that cultural influences and economic necessities should not be considered in isolation and that prevention and intervention efforts need to address","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"97 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48114537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Misfitting Feelings: Young Care Leavers’ Emotional Work During the Transition to Adulthood","authors":"J. Østergaard","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2023.2167809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2023.2167809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the emotional work that young adult care leavers perform during their transition to adulthood. It is based on 30 biographical interviews with young adults (formerly) placed in care. Among researchers, social workers and policy makers, there is a need to understand what young people do about their feelings when they have been exposed to bereavement, abuse, neglect and conflict. Furthermore, it is important to understand how feelings associated with growing up with hard times impact young adults’ everyday lives. To understand what young adults who have been placed in care think and do about their feelings in relation to their birth parents, I draw on Hochschild's model of “deep acting” and “surface acting” [Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American Journal of Sociology, 85(3), 551–575. https://doi.org/10.1086/227049; Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. University of Chicago Press]. The study reveals that these young adults constantly engage in emotion work to manage feelings towards their birth parents that do not fit within social guidelines for how to feel about one's parents. These “misfitting” feelings include hate, anger, disgust and distrust but also love and admiration towards the birth parents who neglected and abused them. Managing these feelings leaves the young adults in moments of pinch or discrepancy that they must act on to successfully transition to adulthood.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"278 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42768622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Devil in the Details: Looking for Tough Moments in Unusual Places","authors":"M. Nico, Maria Silva, Diana Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2022.2153104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2022.2153104","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Critical moments from a youth transitions' point of view, narrative turning points from a life course perspective, and biographical crisis from a subjective and reflexivity approach have been of interest for those concerned in biographical approaches, life histories, and social trajectories. It has been rightfully associated with qualitative approaches: the life stories that are told are the channel for researchers to identify and analyze the role of these specific moments in the course of lives. But is this the only route to identify, tackle and understand these moments of life? In this article we argue there are other means to analyze them. Using data from the longitudinal project “Linked Lives”, where 15 family histories (with a sum of 15 young people from 18 to 25 years of age) were collected through individual interviews, and qualitative oriented surveys were applied during and after the 2020 and the 2021 pandemic lockdowns; we explore two additional avenues. One is through the interaction during the interview. Based on ethnographic notes on postures, emotions, and interactions, during the interview as a whole, and in the moments where those tough life moments were shared, another layer of understanding is achievable. Not only regarding how these moments impact the lives of young people, but also in relation to the way they are capable and willing to express them. In another approach, we suggest that qualitative-driven surveys are capable of providing stories of tough moments. Using the collected information on self-reported wellbeing and reflections of the several phases of COVID-19 lockdowns, we are able to uncover differences and oscillations of young people in difficult contexts. This may also be an ante-camera of Pandemic long lasting hardship stories. These arguments are contextualized in longitudinal, intergenerational and household scopes, since tough moments are a result of accumulated and inter-personal dynamics.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"235 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47696625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translation and Validation of Maternal Confidence Questionnaire (MCQ) In Iran: Persian Version","authors":"Mona Alinejad-Naeini, Mansoureh Ashghali Farahani, Farhad Abolhasan Choobdar, Roqayeh Aliyari","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2022.2119206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2022.2119206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49073240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Sad Story? Time, Interpretation and Feeling in Biographical Methods","authors":"R. Thomson, R. Owens, Peter Redman, Rebecca Webb","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2022.2153105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2022.2153105","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What do we do with emotion in biographical research: is it an end in itself, a symptom to be explained, a thread to be pulled? This paper presents an experiment in methodology within a field of biographical methods that involved revisiting a single qualitative interview after the elapse of thirty years. The interview with 22 year old Stacey was troubling at the time it was generated (as captured in fieldnotes and interview transcript) and was still troubling when these documents were reprised. Naming sadness as an emotion at play in the material took teamwork and emotionally engaged methods of analysis and interpretation. Working with psychoanalytically informed theories we show how a curiosity about emotion and a willingness to follow feelings can help connect individual stories to collective histories. The paper presents group based analyses and writing methods as a way of tracing the psychic logics of story through scenic material (what we call ‘emotional bombshells’). We consider the difference that time might make to an analysis, considering the possibility that more time might produce more perspective through allowing the original context to be rendered (more) visible. We also suggest that clock time can be transcended when considering unconscious processes and experiences that resist narrative. Recontextualising research materials can enrich meaning and further realise the value of qualitative interviews that always contain more to be heard, resituated in new times and relationships. This is not simply an exercise in nostalgia but is offered as a method in its own right, reanimation as a route to the generation of new intergenerational knowledge of a thick present in which past, present and future co-exist.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"260 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44228151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Getting a Good Night’s Sleep: Sleep Problems, Their Etiology, and Potential Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism","authors":"N. Cann","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2022.2119938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2022.2119938","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Historically sleep was considered a passive activity, but research now strongly suggests that it is a time of neurological growth, where memories and skills are consolidated (Fallone et al., 2002). Good sleep is thought to influence cognitive, physical and emotional performance, and aid in effective emotional regulation (Alfano & Gamble, 2009). Whilst sleep problems are relatively common amongst children and adolescents, with estimates varying between 11% and 47% (Russo et al., 2007), they are significantly more common in those with Autism (30% to 80%, Goldman et al. 2012; Hirata et al. 2016; Krakowiak et al. 2008). Research also suggests that without intervention these problems are likely to persist (Goldman et al. 2012; Hodge et al. 2013). Emerging research finds that autistic children and adolescents experience specific sleep difficulties that are unique to this group. As research on the etiology of sleep problems in autism develops we are refining our approaches to intervention to more effectively meet the needs of these children and young people and their families. This article summarises current research into the specific sleep needs of this group. It also considers the multifactorial etiology of sleep problems for this group, and evidence based interventions to date. The author argues that through increased awareness, professionals can do much to ameliorate challenges related to sleep, and improve family functioning and quality of life.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"22 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47445660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving the Sensory Environments of Mental Health in-patient Facilities for Autistic Children and Young People","authors":"G. Williams, Jill Corbyn, Angie Hart","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2022.2126437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2022.2126437","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Poor mental health—compared to that of the neurotypical child population—is a serious concern for many autistic children and young people around the world. In the UK, we have an increasing number of autistic young people receiving care in NHS funded in-patient mental health facilities. While sensory processing differences have now been added to international diagnostic criteria for autism, recent autistic-led and co-produced, practice-based research commissioned by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce and delivered by National Development Team for Inclusion has identified that knowledge of autistic sensory differences and needs is institutionally absent. In particular, the sensory environments of NHS England-funded in-patient facilities were found to present sometimes extreme challenges for autistic young people that at best hinder wellbeing and at worst exacerbate existing mental health problems: instigating a cycle of progressing upwards through increasingly restrictive settings for some. This paper shares some of this learning, gained from the consultation with young autistic people who have experience of inpatient services and autistic Experts by Experience working on novel sensory ward environment reviews. We first introduce the framing of autism as primarily shaped by sensory and social processing differences and outline the significance of this perspective for the in-patient care of autistic young people and children. We then provide an overview of the current sensory challenges that exist in inpatient mental health facilities for autistic children and young people. Finally, we conclude with some suggestions for areas of future research around the impact of adapting ward environments, that have promise for broader and international settings.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"35 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44261676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parents’ Experiences of How Healthcare Professionals Communicate with Autistic Children","authors":"A. Westaway","doi":"10.1080/13575279.2022.2119939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2022.2119939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Autistic children may have increased healthcare requirements as well as a range of communication difficulties and needs. However, there are reports in the literature that their healthcare experiences are not always satisfactory. Using qualitative research methodology and content analysis, this study aimed to investigate parents’ experiences of the ways in which healthcare professionals communicate and interact with autistic children and identifies the different communicative styles that parents consider to be successful or unsuccessful. Parents also describe these styles in terms of the impact that they have on children and also on parents themselves. These findings are discussed in relation to the existing literature around communication in healthcare, with recommendations for how parental experiences can be used to inform future healthcare practice for autistic children.","PeriodicalId":35141,"journal":{"name":"Child Care in Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"68 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48794056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}