“…Since the early 1900s, studies in the academic literature have successfully demonstrated that the use of literature provides children and young adults with opportunities for emotional recovery and development (Catalano, 2017; Heath et al, 2005). For example, in Positive Child Guidance , Miller (2015) elaborated on the emotional benefits of literature for young readers:Bibliotherapy is the process of using books to help children think about, understand, and work through social and emotional concerns. Reading with children can be therapeutic… Adults can use reading to help children come to grips with issues that create emotional turmoil for them.…”
Research suggests that bibliotherapy can help children cope with life's challenges through age‐appropriate reading and storytelling. Bibliotherapy has been employed to assist children in dealing with grief, divorce, adoption and other stressors. However, limited studies have investigated how this approach can support young children with incarcerated parents. Utilizing bibliotherapy as a framework, this study conducts a thematic analysis of children's picture books published between 1977 and 2014, featuring children of incarcerated parents as main characters to better understand the challenges they face. The study aims to explore the challenges depicted among child characters in picture books addressing parental incarceration for a young reading audience over almost 50 years. Our findings reveal that child characters grapple with various emotional, psychological and social challenges related to the sudden separation from their loved ones. We discuss the implications of each finding in greater detail.
“…Since the early 1900s, studies in the academic literature have successfully demonstrated that the use of literature provides children and young adults with opportunities for emotional recovery and development (Catalano, 2017; Heath et al, 2005). For example, in Positive Child Guidance , Miller (2015) elaborated on the emotional benefits of literature for young readers:Bibliotherapy is the process of using books to help children think about, understand, and work through social and emotional concerns. Reading with children can be therapeutic… Adults can use reading to help children come to grips with issues that create emotional turmoil for them.…”
Research suggests that bibliotherapy can help children cope with life's challenges through age‐appropriate reading and storytelling. Bibliotherapy has been employed to assist children in dealing with grief, divorce, adoption and other stressors. However, limited studies have investigated how this approach can support young children with incarcerated parents. Utilizing bibliotherapy as a framework, this study conducts a thematic analysis of children's picture books published between 1977 and 2014, featuring children of incarcerated parents as main characters to better understand the challenges they face. The study aims to explore the challenges depicted among child characters in picture books addressing parental incarceration for a young reading audience over almost 50 years. Our findings reveal that child characters grapple with various emotional, psychological and social challenges related to the sudden separation from their loved ones. We discuss the implications of each finding in greater detail.
“…Leading from ‘the front’ is evident in social workers’ narratives, whereby decisions to remain or leave organisations are attributed to the managerial experience they receive (Frost et al, 2017). Some managers foster relationship-based practice through relational management (Miller, 2017), whereas others are described as intimidating (Hunt et al, 2016) or unavailable (McFadden, 2018). Managers, like frontline social workers, are often subject to stressful conditions informed by the broader political climate (Gupta and Blewett, 2007; Griffiths et al, 2019).…”
Supervision is a core component of professional support and development in social work. In many settings, and perhaps particularly in children’s services, it is valued as crucial in safe decision-making, practice reflection, professional development and staff support. Research has demonstrated that supervision and staff support also contribute to social worker retention in child welfare services. Drawing on data gathered in a 15-month ethnographic, longitudinal study of child protection work that included observations of supervision, we were able to observe the impact of supportive supervisory relationships on social workers’ decision-making about staying in their current workplace. This article presents a single case that demonstrates the potential impact of effective relationship-based supervision on retention and calls for a more humane approach to social work supervision against dominant managerial themes that have increasingly burdened the profession.
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