O acolhimento familiar em Portugal: conceitos, práticas e desafios

Delgado, Paulo

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“…At the same time, these motivating conditions establish clear foster family limits by making it visible that the family's provision of foster care will be re-evaluated if the provision of that childcare affects the established family balance. These results, observed during this study of foster families in Portugal, are consistent with other national and international studies, namely Schofield, Beek, Sargent, & Thoburn [8], Delgado [2], Howell-Moroney [9], and Leschied et al [10]. These authors also highlight altruistic values focusing on the child's wellbeing or the individual's sense of contributing to society, the desire to promote a good home for the child, the desire to provide an institutionalised child with a parent's love and a home, as well as the desire to help a child with special problems and help the wider community/society by providing adequate levels of protection and development opportunities for children.…”

Section: The Process Of Building the Motivation To Become A Foster Fasupporting

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“…In that year, from children placed in foster care, 15.8% were in foster care for 1 year or less, 10.3% were in foster care for 2 or 3 years, and 74% were in foster care for more than 4 years [1]. According to Delgado [2], foster care, from its genesis to the present, can be characterized by four features: (i) Invisibility; (ii) Generality; (iii) Humanitarianism; and (iv) Transitoriness. The "Invisibility"…”

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“…Other studies also point out the importance of knowing other foster families as a motivational factor, as well as the role the children of old caregivers can play in integrating children into new foster families (see Nutt [11], Del Valle et al [12] and Delgado [2]). In the present study, only one of the interviewed caregivers had previously known a foster family in a professional context, the experience projecting the desire to help a child into her future in an intensive way, despite the fact that in her daily life she had already observed many children deprived of both their basic emotional and physical needs.…”

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“…Despite, in legal terms, being considered the preferred mode of responsive child placement, data shows that only 3.2% of the children in placement in 2016 were in FC [1]. The invisibility of FC in Portugal is a reality even in Portuguese scientific research, in which it is poorly represented [2].…”

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Being a Foster Family in Portugal—Motivations and Experiences

Diogo

Branco

2017

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Abstract:Foster care is an almost absent component in the child care system and scientific research conducted in Portugal foster comprises 3.2% 1 of out-of-home care in Portugal. This research aims to contribute to a deeper visibility of the care phenomena, giving specific attention to the foster families themselves. This research adopted a qualitative analytical approach, inspired by Grounded Theory. Foster families' motivation is rooted in altruism, affection for children, and sensitivity to maltreatment. Personal and professional biography or past contact with out-of-home care can also induce predisposition to become a carer. The experience of being a carer 2 is one of traversing through a life of many challenges and rewards. Considering the recognition from the stakeholders, it is a rewarding task. The quality of the service provided and the performance of the care professionals are both key elements to foster care.

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Being a Foster Family in Portugal—Motivations and Experiences

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Branco

2017

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“…Delgado (2006Delgado ( , 2007Delgado ( , 2008, defende a utilidade e a valia de se assegurar a manutenção do contacto entre acolhedores e a criança, após a cessação da vida conjunta, se for essa a vontade comum e se motivos de maior gravidade não a desaconselharem., especialmente no caso do acolhimento familiar prolongado. A manutenção do contacto com os acolhedores contribui para que se mobilizem os conhecimentos, os afectos e as experiên-cias que o individuo transporta consigo na mudança, ou o "capital emocional", na expressão de Sinclair et al (2004, p. 169), facilitando a sua integração no meio a que passa a pertencer.…”

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A perspectiva ecológica: referências para a preparação e a cessação da estadia em acolhimento familiar de crianças

Delgado¹

2012

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ResumoA colocação em Acolhimento Familiar e a cessação da estadia constituem transições ecológicas, pelas alterações que acarretam e pelos papéis que atribuem aos seus protagonistas. A preparação destas transições visa não eliminar os obstáculos, uma utopia que o grau de mudança não permite, mas diminui-los, para um nível que facilite o desenvolvimento da criança e a integração na fase seguinte da sua vida. Este artigo revê o trabalho de alguns autores que, no Reino Unido, se têm debruçado sobre a preparação da colocação e da cessação do Acolhimento Familiar. O modelo ecológico é utilizado como quadro teórico orientador daquela medida de protecção e identifica um conjunto de factores que potencializam o sucesso das transições. Palavras-chave: Perspectiva ecológica, acolhimento familiar, transição ecológica, preparação da colocação, preparação da cessação. AbstractThe placement in foster care and its ceasing are ecological transitions due to the changes they bring and because of the roles assigned to their protagonists. The preparation of such transitions aims to not diminish the obstacles, a utopia that the degree of change does not allow, but to diminish them to a degree that makes the child integration in his/her next phase of life easier. This article reviews the work of some British authors who have taken a special interest in the preparation and closure of children's foster care. It also intends to legitimize, from a theoretical point of view, the relevance of using the ecological model as a guiding framework of that protective measure and suggests a set of practices which enhance the success of the transitions. Keywords: Ecological perspective, foster care, ecological transition, foster placement planning, foster placement ending. A Perspectiva Ecológica e o Acolhimento FamiliarA obra de Bronfenbrenner (1979Bronfenbrenner ( /1996Bronfenbrenner ( , 2005 descreve a relação entre o ambiente e o desenvolvimento humano, sublinhando o modo como o espaço ecológi-co-social em que o indivíduo está inserido influencia o seu percurso, condicionando-o ou potenciando-o, por intermédio das interacções que, ao longo da vida, os indivíduos mantêm com o meio envolvente. Na perspectiva ecológica, ecosocial ou ecosistémica "os sujeitos, longe de serem um produto passivo do ambiente, são agentes dinâmicos do mesmo, edificando realidades" (Caride & Meira, 1995, p. 146), através da interacção com os elementos demográficos, físico-naturais, sociais e culturais de uma comunidade (Meira, 1999).O espaço ecológico "é concebido como uma série de estruturas encaixadas, uma dentro da outra, como um conjunto de bonecas russas" (Bronfenbrenner, 1979(Bronfenbrenner, /1996, mas que não estão hermeticamente fechadas, umas em relação às outras, das mais pequenas à maior. Ancorada na teoria sistémica, a perspectiva ecológica reconhece a interdependência e a inter-relação entre os diferentes níveis ambientais e os componentes que os compõem, produzindo, no seu conjunto, um meio que é globalmente distinto (pode ser mais ou pode ser menos) da m...

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From care to education and employment: A meta-analysis

Cassarino-Perez

Crous

Goemans

et al. 2018

Children and Youth Services Review

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O acolhimento familiar em Portugal: conceitos, práticas e desafios

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Being a Foster Family in Portugal—Motivations and Experiences

Being a Foster Family in Portugal—Motivations and Experiences

A perspectiva ecológica: referências para a preparação e a cessação da estadia em acolhimento familiar de crianças

From care to education and employment: A meta-analysis

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