Child, Youth and Family
The research area Child, Youth and Family is a well-established theme at the School of Social Work at Lund University. Research projects in the field focus on children's and young people's living conditions and everyday life, families with children, parenthood and the effects of class, gender and ethnicity. Comparative studies are made, of family policy, family practices and child protection systems, implementation and outcome of prevention and treatment programs.
The research area have different designs and theoretical approaches. The different designs include, for example, prospective and retrospective, comparative and experimental, cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. The theoretical approaches include both inductive and deductive reasoning. The CFWR can be categorised into three categories corresponding to child, family and welfare:
Research on children and childhood
Focus on different childhoods, living conditions and everyday life; children’s rights, perspective and participation; children in vulnerability, at risk or in need; children’s experiences of social work interventions and out-of-home care; the impact of class, gender and ethnicity.
Research on family and parenthood
Focus on families with children, cohabitant or separated parents, parenthood in natural, adoptive and foster families; “good enough” parenting and vulnerable families; families with social and mental health problems; parental perspectives on children, care and social work interventions; the impact of class, gender and ethnicity.
Research on welfare, interventions and service organisation
Comparative studies of family policy, family practice and child welfare systems, focus on family support programs, foster care and residential care; implementation and outcome of prevention and treatment programs; impact of children’s advocacy centres; assessment and child welfare decisions; professional social work and social worker discretion.
Reseach networks
A network-based organisation at Lund University, focusing on child rights.
Latest publications within the area
Digitalized Social Services: Formation of "new" street-level relations and professional compensation
Digitalized Social Services: Formation of "new" street-level relations and professional compensationHjärpe, T., Carlsson...Accumulated Silence When “Passing the Buck”: Organisational Tensions in Child Welfare Investigations.
Accumulated Silence When “Passing the Buck”: Organisational Tensions in Child Welfare Investigations.Ponnert, L., 2024 M...Deliberating the conditions for implementing the Barnahus model: Knowledge drawn from an institutional analysis
Deliberating the conditions for implementing the Barnahus model: Knowledge drawn from an institutional analysisBakketeig...Included on paper, excluded in practice: or vice versa? Formal and actual target groups of Barnahus across jurisdictions
Included on paper, excluded in practice: or vice versa? Formal and actual target groups of Barnahus across jurisdictions...Institutional barriers to medical examinations in Barnahus
Institutional barriers to medical examinations in BarnahusStefansen, K., Bakketeig, E. & Johansson, S., 2024, Justice an...
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Susanna Johansson
Senior lecturer
Child Rights Institute at Lund University
A network-based organisation at Lund University, focusing on child rights.
"What are they doing?" A Programme Theory
A project about the Swedish social services interventions Contact Person and Contact Family for children