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Citizenship Education as an Educational Outcome for Young People in Care: A Phenomenological Account
Damian Spiteri – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
This qualitative study presents a retrospective analysis of how a cohort of young men, who as boys were assigned to residential care in Malta, perceive the citizenship education that they received while "in care" as having empowered them--as boys, adolescents, and eventually as young adults. Rather than focusing on citizenship education…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Citizenship, Educational Objectives, Citizenship Education
Ellison, Caroline; White, Amy; Chapman, Libby – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2011
Background: Most people with a disability want to remain living in their own home as they age. Without additional support, people with a disability may not be able to avoid moving into residential aged care, attending day programs, or becoming isolated from participation in the wider community. This study examined whether participants perceived…
Descriptors: Day Programs, Older Adults, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
Kreppner, Jana; Rutter, Michael; Marvin, Robert; O'Connor, Thomas; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund – Social Development, 2011
We set out to explore the meaning of the attachment categories in the Cassidy/Marvin strange situation procedure, as employed in the home, using data from a longitudinal study of children adopted into UK families up to the age of 42 months from Romanian institutions, and of adopted children without the experience of institutional care--both groups…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Behavior Standards, Attachment Behavior, Adoption
Evans, Kathryn; Law, Heather; Turner, Roisin Elizabeth; Rogers, Andrew; Cohen, Keren – Child Care in Practice, 2011
The aim of this study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of a mental health consultation process provided to staff working in residential care settings for young people. Using a semi-structured interview approach, qualitative information was gathered from six participants about their experiences of the consultation. A thematic analysis of the…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Mental Health, Consultation Programs, Interviews
Buchbinder, Eli; Bareqet-Moshe, Orit – Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 2011
This qualitative study focused on research into the impact on parents of children's out-of-home placement. Twelve couples (24 parents) were interviewed. Three major themes emerged: (a) parents' perception of out-of-home placement as necessary because of children's destructive behavior and parents' victimhood; (b) parents' acknowledgment of…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Parent Attitudes, Anxiety, Parents
Diniz, Eva; da Rosa Piccolo, Luciane; de Paula Couto, Maria Clara Pinheiro; Salles, Jerusa Fumagalli; Helena Koller, Silvia – Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigated children and adolescents' school performance over time focusing on two variables that may influence it: developmental context and gender. The sample comprised 627 participants (M[subscript age]?=?11.13, SD?=?1.8), 51% of them female, from grade one to eight, living either with family (n?=?474) or in care institutions…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Developmental Stages, Child Development, Adolescent Development
Velez Ortiz, Daniel; Cross, Suzanne L.; Day, Angelique – Educational Gerontology, 2012
An intergenerational initiative was developed and implemented to enhance gerontology in the first course of the practice sequence. Seventeen students met with older adults (ages 82-98) in the classroom and at an assisted living facility. The evaluation of this older adult infusion project was conducted through two questionnaires and by the review…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Older Adults, Intergenerational Programs, Program Effectiveness
Newman, Dee – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
In creating Project Re-ED, Nicholas Hobbs (1913-1983) embarked on a bold new approach to emotionally troubled children and youth. Re-ED, an acronym for the Re-education of Emotionally Disturbed Children, builds on positive concepts of normalcy and health rather than deviance and illness. Hobbs had been impressed by the "educateur" of Europe and…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Foreign Countries, Counseling Techniques, Competence
Death and Dying Attitudes, Anxieties, and Fears of Certified Nursing Assistants: A Descriptive Study
Hamilton, Josephine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The critical role of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to help elderly nursing home residents' move through declining conditions or diseases to death is salient. It is important for CNAs and nursing home leaders to understand CNAs' attitudes, fears, and anxieties toward death and dying. The quantitative study investigated CNA's…
Descriptors: Death, Older Adults, Nursing Homes, Residential Care
Clemens, Elysia V.; Welfare, Laura E.; Williams, Amy M. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
Psychiatric hospitalization is an intensive intervention designed to stabilize adolescents who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. Reintegrating to school after discharge from psychiatric hospitalization can be overwhelming for many adolescents (E. V. Clemens, L. E. Welfare, & A. M. Williams, 2010). The authors used a consensual…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mental Health, Adolescents, Mental Disorders
Huitink, C.; Embregts, P. J. C. M.; Veerman, J. W.; Verhoeven, L. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to examine psychometric properties of the Staff Behavior toward Clients questionnaire (SBC), a self-report measure for care staff working with children and adolescents with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities in residential care. Ninety-nine care staff completed the SBC and the Strengths and…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Mild Mental Retardation, Test Validity, Questionnaires
Collin-Vezina, Delphine; Coleman, Kim; Milne, Lise; Sell, Jody; Daigneault, Isabelle – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2011
The aim of this paper was to provide a description of the trauma experiences, trauma-related sequels, and resilience features of a sample of Canadian youth in residential care facilities, as well as to explore the impact of gender and of the number of different traumas experienced on trauma-related sequels and resilience features. A convenience…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Sexual Abuse, Trauma
Egelund, Tine; Jakobsen, Turf Bocker – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2009
This article explores a paradox that was identified during an ethnographic study of two Danish therapeutic residential institutions for children with emotional and behavioural problems. The key objective of these institutions is to provide specialized treatment for the individual child. However, the task of organizing everyday life for a group of…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Residential Institutions, Ethnography, Behavior Disorders
Grebert, Sheila – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study focused on the learning experiences of individuals, age 80 and older, in care facilities in a Midwestern state. Even with the well documented growth of the over age 85 demographic, there are few studies about learning that included this demographic or considered the wants and needs of this group. Using a phenomenological…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Residential Care, Nursing Homes, Phenomenology
Hawk, Brandi N.; McCall, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Behavior problems reported by parents on the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) were studied in 316 children adopted from social-emotionally depriving Russian institutions as a function of age at adoption (18-month cutoff), age at assessment (6-11 and 12-18 years), and gender. Children adopted after 18 months had higher…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Child Behavior