“Care Just Changes Your Life”: Factors Impacting upon the Mental Health of Children and Young People with Experiences of Care in Northern Ireland

Mullan, C.; McAlister, Siobhán; Rollock, Fiona; Fitzsimons, Lelia

doi:10.1080/13575270701488865

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“…Removal of children from parental care followed by poor care arrangements can be traumatic for the children and young people. This is noted in the work of Mullan et al (2007) who outlined that young people feel very disoriented in care in relation to the reasons why they were placed in care and/or remain in care and, left unchecked. This disorientation can be compounded by adversity like abuse, placement breakdown and other traumatic changes (Bunting et al, 2015).…”

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“…The parent reported that his child underwent forty different placement changes while accumulating several issues like drug misuse, delinquency, selfharm as well as being raped in statutory care. There is literature to support the multiple negative impact of difficult out of home care arrangements (Mullan et al, 2007;Catchpole, 2008;Laming, 2009). Mc Clung andGayle (2010) looked at the academic impact of difficult care arrangements and noted that looked-after children are being discriminated against and generally perform less well academically than the general school population.…”

Section: Need For Appropriate Efficiency In Care Placement Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, some members of the society are so overwhelmed with the challenges that they become the victims of the adversities when they need external support to rebuild their resilience. For example, there is numerous evidence, which suggests that some people can manage their early developmental trauma with/without appropriate support, while some people struggle and turn to negative coping mechanisms (Department of Health, 2000;Spratt, 2009;OHCHR, 2007;Mullan, McAllister, Rollock and Fitzsimons, 2007;Shooter, 2008). This discussion seems to set the rationale for organising external support mechanisms for the people who are struggling to transform their social challenges into their own strengths.…”

Section: Social Justice Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-visioning Child Protection Management Embedded in Family Empowerment

2018

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This paper reports on recently completed research which explores the key question of whether public child protection practice requires a vision embedded in family empowerment. The principle objective of the study was to promote our understanding of the experiences families have with child protection services. The project progressed in two different phases. In phase one, a qualitative in-depth interviewing method was applied to explore the experiences and views of the families. The findings were then thematically analysed through a critical theoretical process. For the second phase, we developed an empowerment framework to analyse and map the key themes from the findings, which outlines the families’ difficulties to engage with, and their alienation from, the services in all stages of interventions. The mapping outcomes indicate a link between the process of empowering the families and the process of improving the child protection service.

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Section: Need For Appropriate Efficiency In Care Placement Arrangementsmentioning

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Re-visioning Child Protection Management Embedded in Family Empowerment

2018

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“…Contact enables young people to maintain emotional ties to people that matter to them, providing them with family support and access to people who are uniquely placed to answer personal questions (Little et al, 2005;Moyers et al, 2006). Young people themselves place particular significance on contact (Mullan et al, 2007).…”

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“…Contact is thought to benefit young people in care in a number of ways. Young people who are removed from their parents experience considerable loss, distress, and lack of control over their own lives upon entering care (Neil et al, 2003;Mullan et al, 2007). Contact enables young people to maintain emotional ties to people that matter to them, providing them with family support and access to people who are uniquely placed to answer personal questions (Little et al, 2005;Moyers et al, 2006).…”

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Mobile Phones and Contact Arrangements for Children Living in Care

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Restorative Parenting: Delivering Trauma-Informed Residential Care for Children in Care

Parry

Williams

Burbidge

2021

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Background There are 78,150 children in care in England and 12% live in group residential settings. Little empirical research informs our understanding of how these vulnerable children heal from multi-type trauma in residential homes. Evidence-based multisystemic trauma-informed models of care are needed for good quality consistent care. Objective Using a novel multisystemic trauma-informed model of care with an embedded developmental monitoring index, the Restorative Parenting Recovery Programme, pilot data was collected from young people and care staff from four residential homes over a two-year period. Five key developmental areas of children’s recovery were investigated through monthly monitoring data. Staff were also interviewed to explore their experiences of delivering the intervention to contextualise the findings. Methods Data was gathered from 26 children, aged 6–14 years, over a two-year period. Their developmental wellbeing was measured using the Restorative Parenting Recovery Index and analysed through a comparison of means. To add further context to this preliminary analysis, qualitative interviews were undertaken with 12 Therapeutic Parents to explore their perceptions of how the Restorative Parenting Recovery Programme influenced the children’s development. Results Young people showed significant improvements on indices relating to relationships (p = 0.002, d=0.844). Significant changes are observed during the first half of the programme in self-perception (p = 0.006, d = 0.871) and self-care (p = 0.018, d = 0.484), although limited progress around self-awareness and management of impulses and emotions. Conclusions This novel integrative approach to re-parenting and embedded measurement system to track the children’s progress is the first of its kind and has originated from extensive multisystemic clinical practice.

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“Care Just Changes Your Life”: Factors Impacting upon the Mental Health of Children and Young People with Experiences of Care in Northern Ireland

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

Re-visioning Child Protection Management Embedded in Family Empowerment

Re-visioning Child Protection Management Embedded in Family Empowerment

Mobile Phones and Contact Arrangements for Children Living in Care

Restorative Parenting: Delivering Trauma-Informed Residential Care for Children in Care

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