The project concerns the relationship between the public and private sectors in caring for children. This project is a part of the research group's established research areas of kinship foster care, children's right to participation, and family councils.
Research questions:
- What are children and young people's experiences with participation in family council?
- What connections exist between participation and the child's mental health? Exploration of the support person's role in family council.
- How is the father and father's family's involvement after family council?
- What experiences do child welfare caseworkers have regarding safeguarding the child's best interests and the child's participation in the use of the family council model?
Research methods and informants
Data collection started in the fall of 2011 and was completed in the spring of 2016. Data was collected from 92 family councils. The informants in the project are children, parents, foster parents, the child's support person from the family council, the family council's independent coordinator, and child welfare caseworkers. The informants are recruited from municipalities throughout the country where the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs uses family councils in foster care work. The data is collected at multiple points in time and in cases involving children aged 0-20 years. In the project, we use both qualitative and quantitative research methods. See the presentation of the sample, data material, and procedures for data collection in the report "Family council in foster care work".
Publications
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Rapport om forskningsprosjektet |
Nygård, Reidunn Håøy; Saus, Merete. Familieråd – metodetilpassing til samisk sosialt arbeid. Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern 2020; Volum 97 (1). ISSN 0800-1014.s 40 - 57.s doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/ISSN.1891-1838-2020-01-04.s (Munin).
Nygård, Reidunn Håøy; Saus, Merete. Is family group conferencing a culturally adequate method outside the origin of New Zealand? A systematic review. Social Work & Social Sciences Review 2019; Volum 20 (1). ISSN 0953-5225.s 42 - 72.s doi: 10.1921/swssr.v20i1.1164.
Nygård, Reidunn Håøy; Saus, Merete; Swanson, Shanley. Conceptualization of Culture and Ethnicity within Social Work in Two Indigenous Communities: Implications for Culturally Adequate Social Work. (fulltekst) Journal of Comparative Social Work 2018; Volum 13 (2). ISSN 0809-9936.s 1 - 27.s doi: 10.31265/jcsw.v13i2.174.s (Munin).
Thørnblad, Renee; Strandbu, Astrid; Sending, Vibeke Jensen (2017)
Fortolkninger og praktisering av støttepersonrollen i familieråd i Norge. Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
Saus, Merete; Jenssen, Toril Synnøve; Strandbu, Astrid (2017)
Mellom entusiasme og anvendelse. Barnevernsarbeideres oppfatninger og erfaringer med Familieråd. Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
Nygård, Reidunn Håøy og Saus, Merete (2016)
Emphasizing indigenous communities in social work research ethics. Sage Journals.
Nygård, Reidunn Håøy; Saus, Merete. Emphasizing indigenous communities in social work research ethics. International Social Work 2016; Volum 59 (5). ISSN 0020-8728.s 666 - 678.s doi: 10.1177/0020872816646815.s (Munin).
Thørnblad, Renee; Strandbu, Astrid; Holtan, Amy; Jenssen, Toril Synnøve (2015)
Family group conferences: from Maori culture to decision-making model in work with late modern families in Norway. European Journal of Social Work.
Jenssen, Toril Synnøve; Strandbu, Astrid; Thørnblad, Renee; Holtan, Amy (2014)
Saksbehandleres dilemmaer - Utfordringer vedrørende barns deltakelse i familieråd om fosterhjem. Fontene forskning.
Bokkapittel
Toril Synnøve Jenssen og Marcela Douglas (2018). Barnevernets fagkunnskap i med familieråd. I Walter Schönfelder, Synnøve Thomassen Andersen, Aina Aune Kane (red), Handlingsrom i barnevernet. Muligheter og begrensninger for profesjonsutøveren. Bergen, Fagbokforlaget.
Strandbu & Vis (2016). Barnets deltakelse i beslutningene. I Christiansen & Kojan (red), Beslutninger i barnevernet. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget.
Medieoppslag
Jenssen, Toril Synnøve. Familieråd, det beste for barnet. Dagbladet 2015.