Is There a Place for Children as Emotional Beings in Child Protection Policy and Practice?

Y

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Child Development; Child Safety; Well Being; Program Descriptions; Emotional Response; Public Policy; Personal Autonomy; Epistemology; Foreign Countries; Self Concept; Children; Adolescents; Attachment Behavior; Catholic Schools; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students; Play; Student Attitudes; Family Environment; Environment; Federal Legislation

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The emotional aspects of children's social relations have generally been marginalised in social science discourse. Children, who participated in the Australian segment of the Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB) project used various media to 'voice' the importance for their well-being of emotional relatedness with family, friends, animals and places. In this paper we place our construction of children's discussion of emotional relatedness in the context of the 'emotional turn' in research and briefly describe how the methodology for our project facilitated an understanding of the importance of children's emotions for their lives in the present. We then focus on the significance for child protection policy and practice, of what children tell us about feeling safe, as this relates to the importance of agency and relatedness with people and also with places.

As Provided

2019

EJ1213734