Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19
Growing numbers of children of all ages grow up in out-of-home care institutions due to personal and socioecological risk variables that destabilized their families of origin. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic which disrupted lives and development, there is particular interest in how childre...
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| description | Growing numbers of children of all ages grow up in out-of-home care institutions due to personal and socioecological risk variables that destabilized their families of origin. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic which disrupted lives and development, there is particular interest in how children who grow up in out-of-home care institutions cope and develop. This paper reports the findings of a study that sought to document anchors of resilience in children who resided in a care institution run by a non-governmental, church-based welfare organization in one of the central provinces of South Africa. In line with recent developments in childcare, the organization mainly functions via smaller child and youth group homes across the province (compared to bigger children’s homes in the past). In our qualitative, phenomenological study, we used the participatory, child-friendly, and less intrusive draw-and-write technique to generate data. We asked the 20 participating children of one of these group homes to make drawings that mirror their lives, and to write paragraphs in which they described their drawings. All were school-going children in care, aged from 12 to 19. There were 11 girls and 9 boys in the study, and one of these identified as “other.” The grades ranged from 7 to 12 and they spoke African languages, namely Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana and IsiXhosa. We used inductive content analysis to process the data, and the findings indicate that, notwithstanding personal and socioecological risks during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the resilience of the participants was anchored by a number of universal personal strengths as well as socioecological resources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-743cdf62568744a8b6433f752784333d2023-10-03T04:28:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-10-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11897391189739Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19Macalane Junel MalindiJohnnie HayGrowing numbers of children of all ages grow up in out-of-home care institutions due to personal and socioecological risk variables that destabilized their families of origin. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic which disrupted lives and development, there is particular interest in how children who grow up in out-of-home care institutions cope and develop. This paper reports the findings of a study that sought to document anchors of resilience in children who resided in a care institution run by a non-governmental, church-based welfare organization in one of the central provinces of South Africa. In line with recent developments in childcare, the organization mainly functions via smaller child and youth group homes across the province (compared to bigger children’s homes in the past). In our qualitative, phenomenological study, we used the participatory, child-friendly, and less intrusive draw-and-write technique to generate data. We asked the 20 participating children of one of these group homes to make drawings that mirror their lives, and to write paragraphs in which they described their drawings. All were school-going children in care, aged from 12 to 19. There were 11 girls and 9 boys in the study, and one of these identified as “other.” The grades ranged from 7 to 12 and they spoke African languages, namely Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana and IsiXhosa. We used inductive content analysis to process the data, and the findings indicate that, notwithstanding personal and socioecological risks during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the resilience of the participants was anchored by a number of universal personal strengths as well as socioecological resources.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1189739/fullCOVID-19multisystemic interventionsout-of-home careresilienceresilience resourcesresilience risks |
| spellingShingle | Macalane Junel Malindi Johnnie Hay Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19 Frontiers in Psychology COVID-19 multisystemic interventions out-of-home care resilience resilience resources resilience risks |
| title | Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19 |
| title_full | Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19 |
| title_short | Resilience anchors for children in an out-of-home care institution during and after COVID-19 |
| title_sort | resilience anchors for children in an out of home care institution during and after covid 19 |
| topic | COVID-19 multisystemic interventions out-of-home care resilience resilience resources resilience risks |
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