Sökning: "foster home"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden foster home.
1. Out-of-Home Care and Educational Outcomes : Prevalence, Patterns and Consequences
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine educational stratification in the context of out-of-home care (OHC; foster family care, residential care) and to place one of society’s most vulnerable groups in the fields of social stratification and family complexity research. About 5% of the Swedish population experience OHC during childhood or adolescence. LÄS MER
2. Samhällsvård och välfärdsresurser : En studie av skolgång, fritid och kamratrelationer bland unga i familjehem och institutioner
Sammanfattning : The dissertation analyses access to welfare resources within the areas of schooling, leisure and peer relations for youth in out of home care. The study was conducted in three counties in mid Sweden and is a replication of the recurrent Swedish surveys of living condition of children in general populations. LÄS MER
3. Av kärlek och plikt : Att bli familjehem till ett barnbarn, syskon eller syskonbarn
Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on kinship foster parents and their experiences caring for their kinship children, something that is rarely touched on in kinship care research. The primary purpose of this study is to, based on a life-course perspective and with family theoretical concepts, analyze what it might mean to take care of a family member’s child through a formal commitment such as a foster care home. LÄS MER
4. MTFC – en intervention för ungdomar med beteendeproblem
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines MTFC (Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care), a multi-modal treatment programme for youth with severe behaviour problems) in a Swedish context. In the United States, the programme has demonstrated encouraging treatment results using specialized foster homes as an alternative to restrictive residential care or group care. LÄS MER
5. Att ersätta det oersättliga : statlig gottgörelse för ofrivillig sterilisering och vanvård av omhändertagna barn
Sammanfattning : in 1999 the Swedish Parliament decided to provide economic compensation to victims of involuntary sterilization, and in 2012 a similar law was enacted to redress neglect and abuse in foster homes and orphanages. This study explores the dilemmas that arise with reparations for past injustices, focusing on the process leading up to the reparation laws. LÄS MER