The mutual benefits of listening to young people in care, with a particular focus on grief and loss: An Irish foster carer's perspective

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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Deirdre
dc.contributor.authorJenkinson, Hilary
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-22T13:21:56Z
dc.date.available2014-01-22T13:21:56Z
dc.date.issued2012-07
dc.date.updated2012-10-16T11:49:39Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the mutual benefits for social workers and young people of active listening within a collaborative partnership incorporating foster carers, allowing the possibility to create a virtuous circle. The benefits for young people of increased self-esteem, positive identity and resilience among others are explored. The benefits for social workers include creating an effective, accountable, holistic and better-informed practice, leading to an increase in overall job satisfaction. One of the authors has drawn on her personal experience as a foster carer, with a particular focus on loss and grief as experienced by young people within the care system and foster families themselves. An argument is presented outlining the need for an expert knowledge of grief and loss and attachment theories on the part of social workers working with young people, along with excellent communication and engagement skills to facilitate an understanding of life as experienced by a young person in care. All too often, care plans are created for young people, or delivered to young people, by well-intentioned but under-resourced social-work departments; the author argues for care plans to be created and implemented with young people, thereby maximising positive outcomes. Listening, advocating and befriending do not require huge additional resources, but are dependent on all professionals actively engaging with young people, on their level and at their pace.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationMURPHY, D. & JENKINSON, H. 2012. The Mutual Benefits of Listening to Young People in Care, with a Particular Focus on Grief and Loss: An Irish Foster Carer's Perspective. Child Care in Practice, 18, 243-253. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2012.683772en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13575279.2012.683772
dc.identifier.endpage253en
dc.identifier.issn1357-5279
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleChild Care In Practiceen
dc.identifier.startpage243en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1326
dc.identifier.volume18en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13575279.2012.683772#.Ut_D4VNFDcs
dc.rights© 2012 The Child Care in Practice Group. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Child Care and Practice July 2012, © 2012 The Child Care in Practice Group, available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2012.683772.en
dc.subjectYoung people in careen
dc.subjectListeningen
dc.subjectGrief and lossen
dc.subjectFoster careen
dc.subjectSocial work with young peopleen
dc.subjectListening to young peopleen
dc.titleThe mutual benefits of listening to young people in care, with a particular focus on grief and loss: An Irish foster carer's perspectiveen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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