Youth victimisation, school and family support: schools’ strategies to handle abused children

Odenbring, Ylva; Johansson, Thomas; Lunneblad, Johannes; Hammarén, Nils

doi:10.3402/edui.v6.26417

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“…Also the police's lack of resources was framed around a discourse connected to organization-yet these narratives related to the police force's difficult financial situation and experiences with this dilemma. The present results on the school officials' disappointment regarding collaboration with the social services correspond with findings from previous studies (Odenbring et al 2015). Still, previous studies also indicate that cases of maltreatment more often involve long and extended processes before the school actually files a report to the social services (Näsman 2012).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…These results correspond with previous research. School officials often express their disappointment with the social services' work and with the extended and slow investigations (Odenbring et al 2015).…”

Section: School Assistantmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this group of children, fear of being removed from their homes and their parents' insistence that they not talk about their problems outside the family result in children seldom reporting their problems to the social services (Hill 2015;Backett-Milburn and Jackson 2012). Instead children often seek support through friends, by talking to them, and sometimes their friends' homes provide a safe place to stay (Hill 2015;Odenbring et al 2015).…”

Section: Maltreatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mental Health, Drug Use and Adolescence: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Students in Secondary School

Odenbring

2017

Urban Rev

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Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health problems. Still, we know little about how professionals in secondary school and other professionals in society handle and collaborate around these issues. The findings from the present study make an important contribution to the research field regarding professionals' efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable students. The present study investigates how school professionals in two Swedish urban schools and the local police describe their experiences with meeting the needs of students who are suffering from mental health problems and drug use. The study draws on semi-structured interviews with the professionals and observations of the schools' student welfare team meetings. The findings reveal that self-medication, through use of pills or drugs (or both), has become quite common among adolescents, who see it as a way to 'solve their mental health problems. Although students' wellbeing and school safety were reported to be major concerns, the professionals' collaborations were sometimes obstacles. Issues connected to the complexity of adolescents' mental health not only highlight the importance of collaboration between schools and other societal institutions, but also indicate the necessary resources for such collaboration.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: School Assistantmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Maltreatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mental Health, Drug Use and Adolescence: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Students in Secondary School

Odenbring

2017

Urban Rev

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“…The training of school personnel is important, but Alexander et al (2005) show that training initiatives are not enough: it is also necessary to change attitudes around children living with domestic violence (cf. Chanmugam and Teasley 2014;Clausson et al 2015;Dufva 2001;Odenbring et al 2015). The professionals requested clear guidelines about how an issue such as domestic violence is to be managed in the school.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, Bruno (2016) points out that a conflict often emerges regarding whether the school staff consider their assignment to be pedagogical or social. School personnel tend to distance themselves from children's family problems (Bruno 2016;Odenbring et al 2015).…”

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School and Child Protection Services Professionals’ Views on the school’s Mission and Responsibilities for Children Living with Domestic Violence – Tensions and Gaps

Münger

Markström

2019

J Fam Viol

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The purpose of the work presented here was to study how the Swedish compulsory school, identifies and acts relative to the social problem of children living with domestic violence. More specifically: how do the various professional groups in school and professionals within the child protection services (CPS) describe and understand their own and other professionals' responsibilities and tasks with respect to children living with domestic violence? The study consisted of 10 focus groups whose members were taken from five professional groups in schools and the CPS in Sweden. The results show that professionals in school lack knowledge about living with domestic violence, one example of which is child abuse. They navigate through the large open space that exists between the pedagogic and psychosocial missions of schools, and use different strategies to interpret the child's symptoms of maltreatment. They point at an unclear distribution of responsibility between different professionals in school, which can be interpreted as a tension between domains within the institutional school domain. They also point at a "gap" between the school and CPS domains, and find confidentiality to be an obstacle to collaboration. Furthermore, the article sheds light on the complexities, the conflicting understandings, and the different priorities of the different professionals and institutions working with children living with domestic violence. It also discusses practical implications of the results.

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“Recognition and identification of children in preschool and school who are exposed to domestic violence”

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Markström²

2017

Education Inquiry

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Youth victimisation, school and family support: schools’ strategies to handle abused children

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Mental Health, Drug Use and Adolescence: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Students in Secondary School

Mental Health, Drug Use and Adolescence: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Students in Secondary School

School and Child Protection Services Professionals’ Views on the school’s Mission and Responsibilities for Children Living with Domestic Violence – Tensions and Gaps

“Recognition and identification of children in preschool and school who are exposed to domestic violence”

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