Be prepared and do the best you can: a focus group study with staff on the care environment at Swedish secure youth homes
This study focuses on the care environment of secure youth homes run by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, where youths up to 21 years old are placed according to law due to extensive care needs or sentences. This study examined staff members' experiences of the institutional car...
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Published in | International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being Vol. 18; no. 1; p. 2168234 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Taylor & Francis
01.12.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd Taylor & Francis Group |
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Summary: | This study focuses on the care environment of secure youth homes run by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, where youths up to 21 years old are placed according to law due to extensive care needs or sentences.
This study examined staff members' experiences of the institutional care environment within secure youth homes.
Data were collected through three focus group discussions with 17 staff members at two secure youth homes. Subsequently, a thematic analysis was conducted.
The analysis indicated two main themes: risk management and damage control in a restricted environment and compensating and reconstructing ordinariness-trying to make the best of it; each theme had three subthemes. The care environment seems to be experienced by staff as characterized by conflicting demands, thus constituting a gap between needs and what is possible to achieve-a balancing act that constitutes a constant struggle.
The staff members' constant struggle could be interpreted as conflicting moral and instrumental demands; they know what the youths need, but the environment of the secure youth homes demands the decorous behaviour of sociomaterial control practices-rather than care practices. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 From August 15th, 2022, KN is affiliated to Institute of Social Work, University of Gothenburg. Before that she was a doctoral student at Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg. |
ISSN: | 1748-2631 1748-2623 1748-2631 |
DOI: | 10.1080/17482631.2023.2168234 |