Children with disabilities in Swedish child welfare – a differentiating and disabling practice

Engwall, Kristina; Östberg, Francesca; Andersson, Gunnel; Bons, Tomas; Bringlöv, Åsa

doi:10.1080/13691457.2018.1461073

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“…In Sweden, personal social services (PSS) are organized into three domains: social assistance, substance abuse treatment and child welfare (Stranz et al, 2016). CWS in Sweden is often described as family oriented with a focus on preventive work and family support (Engwall et al, 2019). The educational programme consisted of a teacher's guide (structured teaching material) primarily including information about the CWS.…”

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“The home isn't like a safe space for them”—Ideals of home and family relationships in children's talk about family adversity and help‐seeking

Weitz

2022

Children & Society

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The aim of this study is to explore how schoolchildren reflect on children's help-seeking in the context of family adversity after participating in lessons about the child welfare services. A thematic narrative analysis was conducted, building on participating pupils' shared reflections on a fictitious story about two siblings living in adverse family circumstances. The analysis suggests that the pupils held a strong belief on children's rights to a safe home with supportive parental relationships, and they expressed an optimistic view on children's opportunities to receive help to achieve positive change when their rights regarding these issues were not met. K E Y W O R D Schildren's help-seeking, child welfare services, family ideals, narrative analysis, parent-child relationships How to cite this article: Spånberger Weitz, Y. (2022). "The home isn't like a safe space for them"-Ideals of home and family relationships in children's talk about family adversity and help-seeking. Children & Society, 00, 1-17.

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“The home isn't like a safe space for them”—Ideals of home and family relationships in children's talk about family adversity and help‐seeking

Weitz

2022

Children & Society

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“…Swedish disability policy is based partly on general welfare policy, including universal child benefit, and partly on interventions aimed specifically at people with disabilities (Engwall et al 2018). The emergence of the Scandinavian welfare-state ideology saw the development of ideals of 'normalisation' (Kristiansen 1999), which implied an aim to integrate disabled people into society by allowing disabled children to grow up at home and by providing them with education and medical care within the mainstream systems (SOU 1964:43).…”

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Elusive Participation – Social Workers’ Experience of the Participation of Children with Disabilities in LSS Assessments

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Öhrvall

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Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of Swedish social workers' experience of disabled children's participation, to discover in what ways their knowledge about impairment and disability, combined with legal literacy and local context influence children's participation in formal meetings and decision making. Seven focus-group interviews were conducted with 35 municipal social workers from communities in different parts of Sweden. The phenomenological analysis resulted in the overarching theme of elusive participation, in which participation was described as difficult to grasp both in relation to what was supposed to be achieved and what it was meant to result in. Elusive participation entailed a discrepancy between policy and practice, norms and perception of normality, conflicting perspectives and needs, judgment of children's abilities. These findings underline the importance of creating safe spaces in which social workers have the opportunity for critical reflections and shared discussions about social work practice.

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“…(Engwall et al, 2019(Engwall et al, : 1028 • 'What do you need to find out to judge what support is needed?' (Engwall et al, 2019(Engwall et al, : 1028 The opening questions start the conversation and ideally the participant's narrative will then cover all aspects of the research with minimal prompts. Open-ended questions invite long, detailed responses, especially when participants are given space and the researcher is listening and comfortable with silence to only interject once the participant has stopped talking.…”

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“…An open, initial question invites the participants to talk by asking them what they would do (Roets et al, 2016) or what they are thinking (Ghanem et al, 2018). Examples are as follows:• ‘What comes to your mind when you read about this family?’ (Bain, 2008: 81, 2020)• ‘What action would you take?’ (Bain, 2008: 81, 2020)• ‘How would you work with the family?’ (Bain, 2008: 81, 2020)• ‘Please tell me how you would typically proceed in this case?’ (Enroos et al, 2017: 10)• ‘Tell me your first steps in managing this case?’ (Taylor et al, 2021: 3)• ‘Describe your initial thoughts about what is happening in the scenario’ (Aujla, 2020: 4)• ‘How would you reason in this case?’ (Engwall et al, 2019: 1028)• ‘What do you need to find out to judge what support is needed?’ (Engwall et al, 2019: 1028)…”

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Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research

Bain

2023

Qualitative Social Work

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Text-based vignettes are widely used within qualitative social work research yet there is little guidance on how to construct and integrate them into the research process. This article discusses the uses, benefits and limitations of written vignettes as part of semi-structured interviews and focus groups with social workers and related professionals. It provides clear guidelines on how to design a vignette. This includes the choice of scenario, characteristics of the protagonist, type of vignette, research setting, length, vignettes in semi-structured interviews and pre-testing. Text-based vignettes have been successfully used in social work research on six continents in a variety of research contexts including single context, comparative, cross-sectional, longitudinal and replication studies. Written vignettes are a useful tool to elicit (professional) values, attitudes and decision-making processes in a time efficient manner that produces focused, in-depth knowledge without the need to use real practice examples that could potentially include sensitive data or breach confidentiality. Vignettes have been used to explore a wide range of topics including but not limited to adult safeguarding, care planning, child protection and multi-agency working together. There is some debate whether vignette responses mirror real-life actions. The value of vignette data goes beyond documenting real-world decision-making. It can uncover tacit social work knowledge and unquestioned beliefs to show how they interplay in decision-making.

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Children with disabilities in Swedish child welfare – a differentiating and disabling practice

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

“The home isn't like a safe space for them”—Ideals of home and family relationships in children's talk about family adversity and help‐seeking

“The home isn't like a safe space for them”—Ideals of home and family relationships in children's talk about family adversity and help‐seeking

Elusive Participation – Social Workers’ Experience of the Participation of Children with Disabilities in LSS Assessments

Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research

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