Voices about foster care: The value of trust

Heyman, Janna C.; White-Ryan, Linda; Kelly, Peggy; Farmer, G. Lawrence; Leaman, Tara Linh; Davis, Henry

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104991

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“…Young people recognised the need to be invited into conversations about their health, listened to and supported to facilitate their healthcare (Grace et al., 2018). Building meaningful, supportive and genuine relationships with carers is foundational to providing opportunities for young people's needs to be heard (CCYP, 2019; Heyman et al., 2020). Relationships that seek to acknowledge and understand the unique experiences and needs of young people in care need to be prioritised to support young people's health.…”

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‘I’m dealing with all these health issues that could have been addressed when I was younger’. Delivery of health services to Australian young people in out‐of‐home care: Lived experiences

Smales

Morris

Savaglio

et al. 2021

Health Social Care Comm

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Care‐experienced young people demonstrate significantly poor physical, social and mental health outcomes during and beyond their time in care, yet they have rarely been consulted or included in research examining their health needs to date. This qualitative paper explores care‐experienced young people's perceptions of health in care, including accessing healthcare and interacting with health professionals. The research methodology was informed by a co‐design approach through consultation with care‐experienced young people. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 young people. The findings revealed that: (1) the care system does not nurture young people's health; (2) young people in care experience difficulty accessing and navigating a complex health system; and (3) young people are not given a voice when it comes to their health. The findings provide key recommendations for practice, including the empowerment of young people through positive, responsive and trusting relationships to prioritise the health of young people in care.

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‘I’m dealing with all these health issues that could have been addressed when I was younger’. Delivery of health services to Australian young people in out‐of‐home care: Lived experiences

Smales

Morris

Savaglio

et al. 2021

Health Social Care Comm

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“…Such histories, among both types of victimized youth, have implications for their potential cooperativeness and participation in prosecutions. Prior maltreatment and dependency court involvement, for instance, contribute to general feelings of mistrust of social services, the courts, and law enforcement (Heyman et al, 2020). Youth may hold police and social workers responsible for not protecting them from abuse, removing them from their parents' care, or changing the youth's placements.…”

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Successful Criminal Prosecutions of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Minors: A Comparative Analysis

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Despite increased awareness of sex trafficking of minors in the U.S., prosecution of traffickers remains difficult, in part because of victim uncooperativeness. There are questions about how that uncooperativeness is expressed, whether it is evident in successfully prosecuted cases, and whether it is unique to trafficked minors or it emerges in similar age victims of sexual abuse. To provide insight relevant to these questions, we compared appellate opinions in two types of successfully prosecuted criminal cases: sex trafficking and sexual abuse of adolescent victims. In the trafficking opinions, victims were rarely described as disclosing on their own or as knowing their trafficker before the victimization. The opinions also often alluded to the trafficking victims’ uncooperativeness and delinquency history, and frequently mentioned electronic evidence and prosecution experts. The sexual abuse opinions, in contrast, tended to suggest that victims’ own disclosures initiated the case, perpetrators were known and trusted adults, and caregiver support during the case was common. Finally, the sexual abuse opinions never explicitly mentioned victim uncooperativeness or electronic evidence and rarely mentioned expert testimony or delinquency. The different characterizations of the two case types highlight the need for improved education concerning effective prosecution of sex crimes against minors.

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“…The focus of this study – children’s feelings, views and coping strategies – was initially informed by the large body of research from other countries. Particularly significant was the literature review undertaken by Grietens (2011) and research from the USA (Del Quest, et al., 2012; Hass and Graydon, 2009; Heyman, et al., 2020; Huffhines, Jackson and Stone, 2020; Ponciano, 2013; Whiting and Lee, 2003), Canada (Mitchell, et al., 2010), the UK (Ahmed, Windsor and Scott, 2015), Ireland (Browne, 2002; Murphy and Jenkinson, 2012), the Netherlands (Singer, Uzozie and Zeijlmans, 2012; Steenbakkers, van der Steen and Grietens, 2016), Norway (Ellingsen, Stephens and Størksen, 2012) and Sweden (Hedin, 2014; Hedin, Höjer and Brunnberg, 2012).…”

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“…A third coping strategy is to openly express difficult feelings, a response known as active coping, and share them with others (Ahmed, Windsor and Scott, 2015; Hedin, Höjer and Brunnberg, 2012; Huffhines, Jackson and Stone, 2020; Mitchell, et al., 2010; Singer, Uzozie and Zeijlmans, 2012; Steenbakkers, van der Steen and Grietens, 2016). Here, children talk about their feelings (Singer, Uzozie and Zeijlmans, 2012), enjoy support from friends and carers and see social work as helpful (Del Quest, et al, 2012; Hass and Graydon, 2009; Hedin, 2014; Heyman, et al, 2020; Mitchell, et al., 2010; Singer, Uzozie and Zeijlmans, 2012).…”

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The feelings and coping strategies of children placed in Flemish family foster care

Holen

Hove

Clé

et al. 2022

Adoption & Fostering

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This article describes how 27 foster children aged 12 to 18 years old, placed in Flemish long-term family foster care, experience life in their foster family and how they cope with their feelings. Evidence from a combination of the children's selection of visual images displaying different emotions (emoticons) and semi-structured interviews shows that they mostly express positive feelings, such as happiness and pride, but simultaneously experience difficult emotions like sadness, anger and confusion. Positive feelings are mostly related to being able to feel like an ‘ordinary’ kid and negative ones to strained relationships with birth parents. Investigations into how the children cope with these emotions distinguished two groups: those who talk about their feelings with friends and other supportive figures and those who hide them. The latter group needs to be provided with strategies to better comprehend and express their feelings; among those suggested were activities that offer tranquility, consolation or distraction and having a private place for themselves. More attention to the emotional experiences of foster children and the ways they cope with their emotions is recommended in policy, practice and research if children's well-being is to be enhanced.

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Voices about foster care: The value of trust

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

‘I’m dealing with all these health issues that could have been addressed when I was younger’. Delivery of health services to Australian young people in out‐of‐home care: Lived experiences

‘I’m dealing with all these health issues that could have been addressed when I was younger’. Delivery of health services to Australian young people in out‐of‐home care: Lived experiences

Successful Criminal Prosecutions of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Minors: A Comparative Analysis

The feelings and coping strategies of children placed in Flemish family foster care

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