Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care

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Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, João M. S.
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Delgado, Paulo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/3740
Resumo: Contact between children in foster and residential care and their birth families have an impact on children’s development and on placement stability. Contact is also important for their social relationships and sense of belonging and well-being. The aim of this study was, from children’s point of view, to describe, analyse and compare contact in residential care and foster care in terms of its frequency, visit location, feelings during and after the visits, visit difficulties, happiness with their placement, their self-confidence, future perception about their lives, and perception of their subjective well-being. We used a sample of 145 children in residential care and all the children in foster care (39), aged between 11 and 15, from the same four Portuguese districts. Results indicated that children in residential care had more contact and visits with their parents than children in foster care, being phone calls the most used way to contact the children. The majority of the children presented joy or satisfaction during parents’ visits and more diffuse feelings after the visit. Also, most of children would like to have more visits and just a minority present some difficulties in their fulfilment. Nevertheless, children in foster care had more self-confidence, optimism in relation to their future, happiness in relation to their placement and higher subjective well-being than children in residential care. In summary, it seemed that the type of placement for children at risk is more important to their future than the existence of contact with their parents.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
title Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
spellingShingle Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
Carvalho, João M. S.
Contact
Foster care
Residential care
Subjective well-being
Visits
title_short Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
title_full Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
title_fullStr Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
title_full_unstemmed Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
title_sort Children’s perceptions about contact and subjective well-being in residential and foster care
author Carvalho, João M. S.
author_facet Carvalho, João M. S.
Delgado, Paulo
author_role author
author2 Delgado, Paulo
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Carvalho, João M. S.
Delgado, Paulo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Contact
Foster care
Residential care
Subjective well-being
Visits
topic Contact
Foster care
Residential care
Subjective well-being
Visits
description Contact between children in foster and residential care and their birth families have an impact on children’s development and on placement stability. Contact is also important for their social relationships and sense of belonging and well-being. The aim of this study was, from children’s point of view, to describe, analyse and compare contact in residential care and foster care in terms of its frequency, visit location, feelings during and after the visits, visit difficulties, happiness with their placement, their self-confidence, future perception about their lives, and perception of their subjective well-being. We used a sample of 145 children in residential care and all the children in foster care (39), aged between 11 and 15, from the same four Portuguese districts. Results indicated that children in residential care had more contact and visits with their parents than children in foster care, being phone calls the most used way to contact the children. The majority of the children presented joy or satisfaction during parents’ visits and more diffuse feelings after the visit. Also, most of children would like to have more visits and just a minority present some difficulties in their fulfilment. Nevertheless, children in foster care had more self-confidence, optimism in relation to their future, happiness in relation to their placement and higher subjective well-being than children in residential care. In summary, it seemed that the type of placement for children at risk is more important to their future than the existence of contact with their parents.
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