Growing up in Care and Adolescence    by Marc Bicker https://padlet.com/m2bicker/9ik71o4a9kp3ryh3 Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2021-05-11 10:12:23 UTC 2021-05-11 10:49:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Looked-after children and young people have ongoing opportunities to explore and make sense of their identity and relationships. tdebbage https://padlet.com/m2bicker/9ik71o4a9kp3ryh3/wish/1512726783

Looked-after children and young people who are not able to live with their family may have difficulty developing a clear sense of who they are. They may also experience a conflict of loyalty between their carer and their birth family, particularly if they enter care at an older age. Their views about which members of their family they wish to see and how often need to be listened to and respected.



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Functionalists regard society as a system made up of different parts which depend on each other. Different institutions each perform specific functions within a society to keep that society going, in the same way as the different organs of a human body perform different functions in order to maintain the whole.

Functionalists see the family as a particularly important institution as they see it as the ‘basic building block’ of society which performs the crucial functions of socialising the young and meeting the emotional needs of its members. Stable families underpin social order and economic stability.

]]> 2021-05-11 10:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/m2bicker/9ik71o4a9kp3ryh3/wish/1512728708 Attachment and identity formation for children in care tdebbage https://padlet.com/m2bicker/9ik71o4a9kp3ryh3/wish/1512736039 Bowlby (1969) suggested that a loving and consistent caregiver provides children with a safe environment in which to explore and develop. Alongside this, Smith and Logan (2004) suggested that knowledge about one’s personal and familial background is important in identity formation to integrate one’s history into a continuing sense of self. Maintaining relationships with family and respecting cultural background is known to be important for children in care. ]]> 2021-05-11 10:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/m2bicker/9ik71o4a9kp3ryh3/wish/1512736039 Psychosocial well-being in adulthood in response to systemic barriers in kinship care as experienced during adolescence m2bicker https://padlet.com/m2bicker/9ik71o4a9kp3ryh3/wish/1512747547
This study reports on the experiences of Black adults in South Africa who were raised in kinship care during adolescence and its influences on their psychosocial well-being in adulthood

https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2018.1564931

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 It is important to recognise that children who have come into the care system are likely to have attachment issues due to traumatic beginnings in their lives 


Equally children from the BAME community may experience extra difficulty in finding their identity.

The formation of attachments builds on the child’s desire not just to be loved and accepted, but also to be able to admire important others. Meeting ethnicity and identity needs is an essential part in your child’s development and will actively promote their ability to develop secure and healthy relationships 

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