Payoffs and Pitfalls of Listening to Children

Warshak, Richard A.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2003.00373.x

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“…Furthermore, because the study participants were adults, they did not face the same threats of reprisal or fear of even worse conditions (eg, subsequent placement with an unknown family) that might be confronted by children who are asked to report abuse or neglect while still in foster care. 96,97 Several limitations of the current research study need to be addressed.…”

Section: Strengths and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Well-Being of Women Who Were in Foster Care as Children

Bruskas¹,

Tessin²

2013

TPJ

108

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Background and Objective: Research has shown that many children in foster care later have psychosocial problems as adults; this is often attributed to cumulative adversities and a lack of supportive caregivers. The risk factors associated with foster care, such as maternal separation and multiple placements, often counteract many protective factors that can ameliorate the effects of childhood adversities. This study assessed the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and psychosocial well-being in women who were in foster care as children.Methods: A total of 101 women aged 18-71 years (mean, 36.83 [12.95] years) completed an anonymous online survey based on the 10-item ACE Questionnaire, the Sense of Coherence questionnaire, and the General Health Questionnaire.Results: More than 56% of respondents were identified as experiencing current psychological distress. Sense of coherence scores (mean, 54.26 [15.35]) showed a significant inverse association with both General Health Questionnaire (mean, 14.83 [5.88]) and ACE (mean, 5.68 [2.90]) scores (r = -0.64 and -0.31, respectively) and 97% reported at least 1 ACE, 70% reported ≥ 5 and 33% reported ≥ 8. Linear regressions indicated that ACEs reported to occur before foster care were associated with lower levels of sense of coherence (8%) and higher levels of psychological distress (6%). Physical neglect and living in a dysfunctional household (parental loss, maternal abuse, or household member associated with substance abuse or prison) significantly decreased during foster care by 16 and 19 percentage points, respectively. Rates of emotional and physical abuse did not change.Conclusion: The number of ACEs was associated with the level of psychological distress. Our findings suggest that children entering the foster care system are already vulnerable and at risk of experiencing ACEs during foster care and psychological distress during adulthood. Measures implemented to protect children must not cause more harm than good. Social services that preserve and strengthen the family unit and reduce the number of ACEs both before and during foster care are recommended. Social workers and clinicians who are trained to address and manage the unique developmental needs of children in foster care may help reduce the effects of ACEs and optimize developmental health.

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Section: Strengths and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Well-Being of Women Who Were in Foster Care as Children

Bruskas¹,

Tessin²

2013

TPJ

108

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“…Her standpoint has been severely criticised (e.g. Gardner, 1998aGardner, , 1998bKelly & Lamb, 2000;Warshak, 2003). Warshak (2000) concluded that a comprehensive and critical reading of more than 75 studies generally supports a policy of encouraging both parents to remain in close proximity to their children.…”

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Relocation, Relationship and Risk

Strous

2014

Social Work

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“…In this approach, the idea of children's participation is a "thin" and often tokenistic one (James and James 2004). To put it in Warshak's (2003) words, it is driven by "the enlightenment rationale": adults listen to children so that they can improve their decisions made on children's behalf. The second one is a tactical approach (de Certeau 1984) that envisages a bottom--up participatory process of reclaiming the park, it develops bonds with the local community, and it sees children as capable of valuable urban insights.…”

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Children's imaginaries in the city: on things and materials

Soreanu

Hurducaş

2015

Children's Geographies

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Abstract:The article is an exploration of urban imaginaries emerging through a play with materials. Starting from a complex activist exercise for reimagining the space of a park in decay, whose protagonists are children, we propose a reflection on the productivity and resilience of matter. We argue that a new materialist sociology is one that takes disappearances seriously. Capitalism renders space abstract not only through flow and circulation, but also through stillness. We follow the curious disappearances and reappearances of the park in question, tracing the mutations of urban planning, of the juridical domain, and of the everyday use of space. Finally, we analyse the making of a maquette of the park by a group of children and their alliances with activists. The maquette is a political "thing": it leads us away from an urban imaginary populated by discrete objects to an urban imaginary of depth and it reconcretises space. Key words: children's imaginaries, radical social imaginaries, new materialism, children's participation.3 Introduction In his writings Althusser (2006) insisted that materialism is the most difficult problem that we encounter as social thinkers. We here propose a sociology of disappearances and reappearances, as part of a new materialism of the encounter. Things are not static, but they are in constant movement. Things leak out of themselves. Things leak into invisibility. The new materialist sociology we argue for is one that takes disappearances seriously.In the past two decades, a creative place of utterance has emerged in critical urban scholarship: it is a place defined by surpassing a firm opposition between poststructuralism (which has tended to dispense with things) and Marxian phenomenology (which has tended to substitute things for objects, and to argue that we have lost the thingness of things to objects). The productivity and the resilience of matter became the most important materialist story to recuperate (Coole and Frost 2010). Matter returned, but in its processual insistence, as matter that becomes, rather than as matter that is.To this discussion, we add two peculiar questions. How can we tell a story of a disappearance of an urban space (here, it is the space of a park) from urban imaginaries? As we show, capital accumulation turns space invisible. How does space reappear through creative alliances of children and activists around materials? By

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Payoffs and Pitfalls of Listening to Children

Cited by 97 publications

References 85 publications

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Well-Being of Women Who Were in Foster Care as Children

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Well-Being of Women Who Were in Foster Care as Children

Relocation, Relationship and Risk

Children's imaginaries in the city: on things and materials

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