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‘I always say what I think’: a rights-based approach of young people¿s psychosocial functioning in residential care
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Adolescents in residential care tend to be socially devalued and are psychosocially vulnerable. For that reason, a rights-based approach must be adopted to
empower them and promote their participation. Focus group discussions were developed with 29 adolescents aiming to explore their rights perceptions during the placement in residential care and how it could be related to their well-being. Results from the
grounded model showed that youth’s perceptions on the non-fulfilment of their rights
are related to perceived emotional and behavioral difficulties. Their psychological
functioning seems to be particularly affected when a set of dimensions are perceived
as not fulfilled, namely, education, private life, non-discrimination, perceived social
image and respect for themselves and their families by the protection system. Also, a
set of individual, relational and socio-cognitive variables were identified as
conditions and processes that provide additional explanatory potential to this
model. These results underpin the relevance of adopting a rights-based approach
to understand psychosocial functioning in residential care, strengthening the
importance of social influences to human development. Implications for practice
are also explored in the present work.
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Residential care Adolescents Child rights Grounded model
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Magalhães, E., Calheiros, M. M., & Antunes, C. (2018). ‘I always say what I think’: A rights-based approach of young people’s psychosocial functioning in residential care. Child Indicators Research, 11(6), 1801-1816. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-017-9511-6
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Springer