Children’s experiences of alternative care in mainland Southeast Asia – A scoping review of literature

A New Perceived Restorativeness Scale for Children's Everyday Environment (PRS-ChEE): Evaluating the Restorative Potential of Orphanages' Outdoor Spaces from the Viewpoint of Children

“…The current study acknowledges the scarcity of appropriate PRS for children and contributes to the field by designing a new PRS tool based on the properties of ART with evidence of reliability and validity that can be easily and quickly used by children in wider age groups and enables children to assess their familiar everyday environment like their living space, and applies to contexts other than European and North American languages and cultures. This becomes more important, especially for children who spend a significant portion of their life separated from their families and in institutions like orphanages, and we know very little about their lived experiences, their social and emotional well-being, and their aspirations for the future (Rogers et al, 2021). Children in such environments are likely to have experienced significant trauma, abuse, or neglect and can suffer from severe psychomotor retardation ( McPherson et al, 2018;Taneja et al, 2002).…”

‘Doing family’ in adversity: Findings from a qualitative study exploring family practices in alternative care settings in Thailand

“…When exploring the effects that living in alternative care has on children, perhaps the least well‐documented and understood aspects are the perceptions and experiences of those at the centre of the phenomena, the children and young people who are growing up in these settings (Roche, 2019; Rogers et al, 2021). Accordingly, a key objective of this research was to directly engage with children and young people living in care to contribute to a deeper understanding of alternative care and its impact on the lives of children.…”

“…Residential care settings often fail to promote children's contact with family, which disrupts familial bonds and social capital (Rogers et al, 2021). This is often compounded by many RCS who promote themselves as caring for orphans, in a context where it is estimated that four out of five children in alternative care are not orphans and have a living parent (Csáky, 2009).…”