Essays about: "Child institutionalization"
Found 4 essays containing the words Child institutionalization.
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1. Perceptions from foster care practitioners on the best interest of children and teenagers within the Brazilian strategy for reforming out-of-home care
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema BarnAbstract : Within the Brazilian strategy to reform out-of-home care services, efforts have been directed to the prioritization of foster care over congregate care. This study draws from the perspective that childhood is socially construed, therefore child protection systems are dependent of notions and ideals of childhood, especially concerning the child deprived of parental care. READ MORE
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2. Development Network Organizations – Platforms for Reinforcing Local Sovereignty or Instruments for Top-Down Governance? : A Case-Study of the Child Protection Community in Burkina Faso
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Formulations in international policies often give expression to assumptions that network organizations have positive effects on development work by increasing coordination and collaboration between actors that are trying to obtain similar goals. However, few case studies have investigated the interactor dynamics of network organizations operating in development contexts, especially within the social sector. READ MORE
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3. Growing from Grass to Grace - Preventing family separation through empowerment
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development StudiesAbstract : Child institutionalization is a common and growing phenomenon embedded in today’s Ugandan society, with a variety of socio-economic factors contributing to it. The increase of child institutionalization has coincided with an increase of research into the developmental effects of growing up in institutional care, which proved to have negative impacts on a child’s cognitive, physical and social-emotional development. READ MORE
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4. Children as passive victims or agentic subjects? : A discourse analysis of child mental health and wellbeing in the World Health Organization (WHO) year reports
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema BarnAbstract : Child mental health has been an emerging topic in societal as well as scholar spheres. Mental health is intimately connected with wellbeing and as such their promotion by the World Health Organization(WHO) has allowed for governmental and societal structures to be aware of what is necessary to implement and change in order to achieve better child mental health and wellbeing. READ MORE
