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Involving children placed out-of-home in outcome research

Involving children placed out-of-home in outcome research. An analysis of implications and some thoughts for the future Hans Grietens University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

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Involving children placed out-of-home in outcome research

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  1. Involving children placed out-of-home in outcome research An analysis of implications and some thoughts for the future Hans Grietens University of Groningen, the Netherlands

  2. “When we don’t speak, ..., we become unbearable, and when we do,we make fools of ourselves”Herta Müller – The Land of Green Plums

  3. Number of studies on children’s and young people’s views and experiences of care is growing • Listening to children’s voices has a lot of benefits • But it also creates dilemmas

  4. Are we aware of what we are doing and what are the implications at the psychological and ethical level?

  5. Storytelling Feeling agency Being listened to Receiving voice Mind-mapping child-researcher interaction Exposing oneself Participating Listening Empowering Being touched Witnessing Empathising ‘Verstehen’

  6. Ethical issues Why? What gives us the right to include children’s stories in research and study their lived experiences of care? What is our ‘real’ interest?

  7. What? Who defines the concepts? Who asks the questions?

  8. How? How do we commit? How do we deal with power? With time? With methods?

  9. And next? How do we report? How do we help children keeping their voice? How do we ‘prove’ our commitments? What will we do with all these stories?

  10. A case illustration • A. (17 yrs; Morocco) • long career in care with many disruptions • in-patient psychiatric units and secure accommodation • has been sexually abused by a relative and after disclosure was rejected by father • feels very guilty • a lot of severe violence in the home • struggles with her (sexual) identity • talks about life in a special treatment unit for girls

  11. Relevant themes: • prefers individual therapy to group therapy • distrusts male group carers • has a feeling that nobody is listening to her • does not need anybody to tell everything to • feels ‘abused’ by group members • is very anxious about her future and feels little support • is very scared for her father and talks about violence • seems to be very traumatized by treatment in psychiatric units and secure accommodation • A few striking quotes: • ‘privacy is privacy’ • ‘there is so much I would like to tell’ • ‘my father says I am dirty’ • ‘when will I finally stay in one and the same place?’

  12. Some thoughts for the future • Including children’s voices in research is intense and takes time • It may ‘shock’ • When taken seriously, storying may serve informed practice • Listening is but the beginning and stories are not the end • Healing through story-telling in research?

  13. Contact Hans Grietens, PhD Centre for Special Needs Education & Youth Care University of Groningen, the Netherlands E-mail:h.grietens@rug.nl

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