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Engaging Adolescent Youth in Foster Care through Photography

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Informa UK Limited, 2014.
    • الموضوع:
      2014
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Older youth in foster care are particularly vulnerable because they are poorly prepared for the transition from foster care to independent adulthood. Interventions designed to assist in this transition rarely engage youth directly; plans are made for youth rather than with them. Photographs can serve as an externalised medium for the expression of youths' personal issues and can have a positive effect on their health. Enhanced outcomes include increasing self-esteem, instilling hope, and assisting with personal and interpersonal development. The expression of these concerns, hopes, and plans via photography can bridge social and communicative distances that may exist between youth and their social worker. In this way, youth engagement is enhanced; the social worker and youth can more effectively build a helping alliance. Two of the authors, college professors, developed an intervention that utilises photography to engage adolescent youth in foster care and facilitate collaborative development of a case pl...
    • ISSN:
      1476-489X
      1357-5279
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1080/13575279.2013.847054
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsair.doi...........277b1e0b252e26265c7fbab4e6a69716