Error Correction of Restrictive Measures: Appeals Made by Young People in Care

Kalliomaa-Puha, Laura; Pösö, Tarja; Toivonen, Virve-Maria

doi:10.1177/1103308820914810

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“…Their accounts convey a vague understanding of decisionmaking processes and how to influence these processes. This resonates with other studies finding the child welfare system adult-centered, such as children having poor insights regarding their rights and access to the complaints system (Kalliomaa-Puha et al, 2021;Kloppenborg and Lausten, 2020), and municipal boards adjudicating care orders largely in accordance with the assessment and recommendation proposed by the case manager or local authority (Forkby et al, 2016). While children's rights have informed legislation by establishing Children's Hearings, access to complaint systems, and the right to an advocate, empirical research documents that children's participation remains impaired by adult-centered understanding of children's needs.…”

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“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement

Henriksen

2021

Qualitative Social Work

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In Denmark, secure institutions are the most intrusive form of out-of-home placement. This article explores how children and young people experience participating in decisions involving secure placement. The analysis draws on a qualitative study, which includes interviews with young people, their case manager and case file data. The young people have all been placed in a secure institution for either observation or on grounds of being a danger to themselves or others, typically defined as a range of behavioral problems like absconding, abuse of drugs, transactional sex and/or crime involvement. Young people’s experiences of participating in these decisions provide important insights for understanding the barriers and factors, which facilitate participation for some of the most vulnerable children and young people in the child welfare system. Drawing on a three-dimensional definition of participation inspired by Kloppenborg and Lausten, the analysis shows that young people in the ‘deep-end’ of child welfare services navigate an adult-centered system of assessment and decision-making, which curtails their possibilities to have a voice and influence decisions. The analysis contributes to a limited research field studying case work practices in relation to care orders, restrictive measures and the confinement of children and young people, where young people’s perspectives are largely missing. Their voices provide important insights for the development of a child-centered approach to service provision, that balances their right to participation, protection and care.

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“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement

Henriksen

2021

Qualitative Social Work

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“…But for seclusion, nothing is required' (Nolbeck et al, 2020, p. 9). This illustrates how confinement can be experienced in fractions (Kalliomaa-Puha et al, 2021), implying that adolescents can be placed in time-out or isolation within a locked institution. Some institutions have a low-stimuli room, which is used for distressed persons who are considered a risk to themselves or others.…”

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The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life

Henriksen

Øye

2023

Children & Society

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The article presents a metasynthesis of qualitative studies, which have described and analysed adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional contexts such as psychiatric care, child welfare and juvenile justice. The study finds that coercion is an ambiguous practice, mainly used for protection and treatment purposes, while it is often experienced as punitive. Acknowledging the ambiguities of coercion can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of practice and experience, which is useful for reducing the harmful effects of coercion and strengthening participatory methods of care and treatment.

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“…While children are in care, their rights for contact and movement, for example, may be restricted under certain conditions following a decision of restrictive measures. Such restrictions may be carried out only for the best interest of the child and never for the sake of punishment (Kalliomaa-Puha et al, 2021).…”

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Using self‐report surveys in schools to study violence in alternative care: A methodological approach

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In this article we explore a Finnish nationally representative self‐report survey (N = 155, 299) conducted in a school as a tool to advance the study of violence in alternative care. By analysing the survey, we were able to provide plausible prevalence and estimates of risk factors of violence in alternative care, suggesting that self‐report surveys conducted in schools are a useful and valid methodology for this type of research. Conducting the survey in a school setting enabled us to reach a nationally representative population of adolescents living in alternative care, which would be difficult to achieve in any other way. However, studying violence in alternative care with a school survey requires a large sample size. Even with quite a substantial dataset, detailed explanatory analyses were not possible due to the low number of observations. This emphasises the importance of other types of data in addition to survey data in explanatory analysis. Based on this study, we concluded that nationally representative self‐report surveys conducted in schools could provide a useful tool and possibilities for replicable research design, which could thereby develop the research field further.

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Error Correction of Restrictive Measures: Appeals Made by Young People in Care

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement

“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement

The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life

Using self‐report surveys in schools to study violence in alternative care: A methodological approach

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