Pub Date : 2021-05-19DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1926229
Hafizuddin Awang, Azriani Ab Rahman, S. Sukeri, Noran Hashim, Nik Rubiah Nik Abdul Rashid
Abstract Adolescent health services are often misperceived as less important scope of health services, hence, diminishing the rights of adolescents to have optimal healthcare services. Inputs on perceptions regarding adolescent health services would facilitate policy makers in improving the quality of healthcare services delivery to adolescent clients attending health facilities. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceptions of healthcare providers regarding adolescents and adolescent health services in Malaysian setting through in-depth interview. A descriptive, phenomenological approach was employed as the method of inquiry. Thematic analysis was used to evaluate the data. From this study, respondents perceived adolescents as healthy, thus, less important compared to other group of population. Adolescent health services were perceived as a demanding scope of health service; requiring considerable time and specialized clinic settings. Healthcare providers also believed that adolescent health services are crucial yet overlooked, with various management issues such as short-staffed, lack of promotion, budget, and monitoring which hamper its progress. In conclusion, healthcare providers in this study have some negative perceptions toward adolescents and their health services. Improving clinics work processes and setting, allocating more staff and training sessions, gaining more political will and strengthening adolescent-friendly health services are recommended to improve healthcare providers' perceptions toward adolescent health services.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-13DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1918541
H. Steinkopf, D. Nordanger, Brynjulf Stige, A. Milde
Abstract Trauma informed care (TIC) emphasizes the importance of professionals maintaining an emotionally regulated state. We interviewed eight staff members in a residential care unit for children and adolescents where TIC had been implemented, about situations wherein they experienced difficulty regulating their own emotions. We identified three major narratives in informants’ descriptions: (1) “Are we doing the right things?”, (2) “My childhood issues surfaced”, and (3) “Missing togetherness with trusted others.” The narratives illustrate the emotional strain that can be evoked when working in residential child welfare settings, and within TIC frameworks, and point to potential challenges to resolve when implementing TIC in similar organizations.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-06DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1918542
William A. Chernoff
Abstract Just as delinquency case rates skyrocketed more for girls than boys in the 80s and 90s, recent declines show, yet again, that advances in youth intervention favor boys over girls. Given that boys continue to outnumber girls involved with the system, it is perhaps not surprising that juvenile courts tend to rely on gender-neutral programming; in effect treating girls like boys. Drawing a sample of youths (N = 3,901) processed by a Midwestern juvenile court filed between 2012 and 2016, the present study shows that gender neutral diversion programs yield lower recidivism rates for boys, but not for girls.
{"title":"Treating Girls Like Boys: The Juvenile Court and the Burden of Gender Neutral Programming","authors":"William A. Chernoff","doi":"10.1080/0145935X.2021.1918542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1918542","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Just as delinquency case rates skyrocketed more for girls than boys in the 80s and 90s, recent declines show, yet again, that advances in youth intervention favor boys over girls. Given that boys continue to outnumber girls involved with the system, it is perhaps not surprising that juvenile courts tend to rely on gender-neutral programming; in effect treating girls like boys. Drawing a sample of youths (N = 3,901) processed by a Midwestern juvenile court filed between 2012 and 2016, the present study shows that gender neutral diversion programs yield lower recidivism rates for boys, but not for girls.","PeriodicalId":45151,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Services","volume":"43 1","pages":"309 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1918542","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46316251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-05DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1913049
Katie Ellis, Danielle Leahy Laughlin
Abstract The growth of homelessness in the UK has been attributed to government led economic reform, beginning with the election of David Cameron in 2010, who promised to significantly reduce the UK’s welfare bill. We argue that these welfare reforms have adversely affected vulnerable young people and placed key services beyond their reach. This paper shares data collected from young people aged 16–21 living in a homeless hostel in England and seeks to challenge notions of responsibilization, which hold young people accountable for the circumstances in which they become encased. Participants reported that although homelessness was precipitated by violence and abuse at home, local authorities sought parental consent before making provision available. Young people described being refused help and advised to “go home” when they reported themselves as being homeless. Despite feeling safe and well supported in the hostel, residents were aware that hostel support was temporary and described feeling worried about their future. Our research highlights the limited nature of services and concludes that vulnerable young people, without family support, are especially disadvantaged by their circumstances.
{"title":"Youth Homelessness in Austerity Britain: “We Can’t Help You, You Need to Go Back Home”","authors":"Katie Ellis, Danielle Leahy Laughlin","doi":"10.1080/0145935X.2021.1913049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1913049","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The growth of homelessness in the UK has been attributed to government led economic reform, beginning with the election of David Cameron in 2010, who promised to significantly reduce the UK’s welfare bill. We argue that these welfare reforms have adversely affected vulnerable young people and placed key services beyond their reach. This paper shares data collected from young people aged 16–21 living in a homeless hostel in England and seeks to challenge notions of responsibilization, which hold young people accountable for the circumstances in which they become encased. Participants reported that although homelessness was precipitated by violence and abuse at home, local authorities sought parental consent before making provision available. Young people described being refused help and advised to “go home” when they reported themselves as being homeless. Despite feeling safe and well supported in the hostel, residents were aware that hostel support was temporary and described feeling worried about their future. Our research highlights the limited nature of services and concludes that vulnerable young people, without family support, are especially disadvantaged by their circumstances.","PeriodicalId":45151,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Services","volume":"42 1","pages":"302 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1913049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41861759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0145935x.2021.1959748
G. Charles, Ben Anderson-Nathe
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1903857
H. Modlin, Douglas Magnuson
Abstract The work of caring for children and youth in residential care is a type of “mental demand,” in Kegan’s phrase, and in this study we used Kegan’s constructive developmental theory to interpret the mental demands on front-line child and youth care practitioners. The research questions were (a) how do different meaning-making systems influence how practitioners cope with and experience the demands of the job, and (b) what do child and youth care practitioners, with different meaning-making systems, identify as the primary challenges and the most satisfying experiences, and how do they experience and cope with these challenges? From the initial pool of 99, eighteen participants were selected for in-depth, qualitative interviews to assess the ways in which they make meaning and explore their experiences in residential care. There was internal coherence among the self-authoring and socialized epistemological orders and across organizations. This way of understanding the work reinterprets practice problems, including boundaries and limit testing, turnover and burnout, and how to do supervision.
{"title":"A Constructive-Developmental Analysis of Satisfaction, Challenge and Coping in Residential Child and Youth Care","authors":"H. Modlin, Douglas Magnuson","doi":"10.1080/0145935X.2021.1903857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1903857","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The work of caring for children and youth in residential care is a type of “mental demand,” in Kegan’s phrase, and in this study we used Kegan’s constructive developmental theory to interpret the mental demands on front-line child and youth care practitioners. The research questions were (a) how do different meaning-making systems influence how practitioners cope with and experience the demands of the job, and (b) what do child and youth care practitioners, with different meaning-making systems, identify as the primary challenges and the most satisfying experiences, and how do they experience and cope with these challenges? From the initial pool of 99, eighteen participants were selected for in-depth, qualitative interviews to assess the ways in which they make meaning and explore their experiences in residential care. There was internal coherence among the self-authoring and socialized epistemological orders and across organizations. This way of understanding the work reinterprets practice problems, including boundaries and limit testing, turnover and burnout, and how to do supervision.","PeriodicalId":45151,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Services","volume":"42 1","pages":"179 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1903857","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45695044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1938526
N. Harper, Douglas Magnuson, Will W. Dobud
Abstract Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH or wilderness therapy) is an out-of-home adolescent treatment option serving tens of thousands of youths annually for behavioral, substance, and mental health issues in the United States. About half of OBH participants attend involuntarily and are transported by services specialized for “uncooperative” youth. Transportation has been argued by some researchers to have little impact on youth in treatment, and Tucker and colleagues found little difference in outcomes between not transported and transported youth. Ethical and empirical concerns arise from these findings, and we apply a critical perspective to address these concerns. Specifically, we examined the claim in OBH research that being transported has no significant bearing on client treatment outcomes. We propose that the findings of no difference were random, rather than systematic, because they were constructed on a post hoc measure of perceived voluntariness. To demonstrate, we used data from OBH to construct five different measures of voluntary/involuntary, also fabricated post hoc. All five operationalizations resulted in statistically significant differences across a variety of social and psychological outcomes, demonstrating inconsistencies across the findings. Further independent and rigorous research is called for in OBH to understand the use and ethics of forced transportation, coercion, and involuntary treatment.
{"title":"A Closer Look at Involuntary Treatment and the Use of Transport Service in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (Wilderness Therapy)","authors":"N. Harper, Douglas Magnuson, Will W. Dobud","doi":"10.1080/0145935X.2021.1938526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1938526","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH or wilderness therapy) is an out-of-home adolescent treatment option serving tens of thousands of youths annually for behavioral, substance, and mental health issues in the United States. About half of OBH participants attend involuntarily and are transported by services specialized for “uncooperative” youth. Transportation has been argued by some researchers to have little impact on youth in treatment, and Tucker and colleagues found little difference in outcomes between not transported and transported youth. Ethical and empirical concerns arise from these findings, and we apply a critical perspective to address these concerns. Specifically, we examined the claim in OBH research that being transported has no significant bearing on client treatment outcomes. We propose that the findings of no difference were random, rather than systematic, because they were constructed on a post hoc measure of perceived voluntariness. To demonstrate, we used data from OBH to construct five different measures of voluntary/involuntary, also fabricated post hoc. All five operationalizations resulted in statistically significant differences across a variety of social and psychological outcomes, demonstrating inconsistencies across the findings. Further independent and rigorous research is called for in OBH to understand the use and ethics of forced transportation, coercion, and involuntary treatment.","PeriodicalId":45151,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Services","volume":"42 1","pages":"200 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1938526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47953252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1926228
T. Prochnow, M. Patterson, Christina N. Bridges Hamilton, Haley Delgado, S. Craig, M. R. Umstattd Meyer
Abstract This study examined sex differences in child friendship networks relative to summer care programs and associations with self-reported physical activity (PA) across summer. Children (n = 182; mean age = 9.93 years; SD = 1.28) at two summer care programs reported PA and information about up to five people they hung around with at the program and five outside the program at the beginning and end of summer. Male children reported significantly more PA than females at both timepoints. Average PA of in-program friends was significantly associated with PA for both sexes. More studies should acknowledge access to summer care programming when assessing summertime PA.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901572
B. N. Bunga, Apris A Adu, Yeni Damayanti, Theodora Takalapeta, Shela C. Pello, I. Kiling
Abstract Since March 2020, the coronavirus disease has spread in Indonesia and affected many sectors of youth's life including education. Indonesia takes measures of distance learning to adapt to the pandemic, focusing on learning through digital media. Implementation of online learning in Indonesia has varying results, causing youth living in under-developed areas to be exposed to poor distance learning due to inadequate internet connection. This study examined how youth in the under-developed area of Indonesia experience online learning. 14 young people living in Kupang City, West Timor participated in photovoice and interview sessions. Thematic analysis identified three themes, which are the benefits and challenges of online learning, synchronous versus asynchronous learning, and the future of online learning. The use of photovoice managed to capture details of online learning implementation on youth and its implications are detailed further in this study.
{"title":"Synchronous vs. Asynchronous: Photovoice Study on Indonesian Youth’s Online Learning Experience","authors":"B. N. Bunga, Apris A Adu, Yeni Damayanti, Theodora Takalapeta, Shela C. Pello, I. Kiling","doi":"10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901572","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since March 2020, the coronavirus disease has spread in Indonesia and affected many sectors of youth's life including education. Indonesia takes measures of distance learning to adapt to the pandemic, focusing on learning through digital media. Implementation of online learning in Indonesia has varying results, causing youth living in under-developed areas to be exposed to poor distance learning due to inadequate internet connection. This study examined how youth in the under-developed area of Indonesia experience online learning. 14 young people living in Kupang City, West Timor participated in photovoice and interview sessions. Thematic analysis identified three themes, which are the benefits and challenges of online learning, synchronous versus asynchronous learning, and the future of online learning. The use of photovoice managed to capture details of online learning implementation on youth and its implications are detailed further in this study.","PeriodicalId":45151,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Services","volume":"43 1","pages":"276 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901572","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44473050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-26DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901571
Jennifer Renick, Miguel N. Abad, Elizabeth A. van Es, Elizabeth Mendoza
Abstract Efforts to transform educational systems advocate for shifting and expanding the voices of those who generate research. This study was part of a project that brought together mathematics teachers, youth workers, and researchers to create equity-centered noticing frameworks for mathematics instruction. We explore youth workers’ understandings of the relationship between local educational equity problems and larger structural forces. By applying the framework of critical bifocality, we explore how youth workers demonstrate praxis where their pedagogical responses are animated by an understanding of the inherent linkages between broad social, economic, and political forces and educational equity issues in the local community.
{"title":"“It’s All Connected”: Critical Bifocality and the Liminal Practice of Youth Work","authors":"Jennifer Renick, Miguel N. Abad, Elizabeth A. van Es, Elizabeth Mendoza","doi":"10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901571","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Efforts to transform educational systems advocate for shifting and expanding the voices of those who generate research. This study was part of a project that brought together mathematics teachers, youth workers, and researchers to create equity-centered noticing frameworks for mathematics instruction. We explore youth workers’ understandings of the relationship between local educational equity problems and larger structural forces. By applying the framework of critical bifocality, we explore how youth workers demonstrate praxis where their pedagogical responses are animated by an understanding of the inherent linkages between broad social, economic, and political forces and educational equity issues in the local community.","PeriodicalId":45151,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Services","volume":"42 1","pages":"349 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48583631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}