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Research Review: Young people leaving care
Author(s) -
Stein Mike
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00439.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , psychological resilience , young adult , social exclusion , social work , psychology , young person , medicine , nursing , developmental psychology , social psychology , political science , computer science , history , archaeology , law , programming language
This paper reviews the international research on young people leaving care. Set in the context of a social exclusion framework, it explores young people’s accelerated and compressed transitions to adulthood, and discusses the development and classification of leaving care services in responding to their needs. It then considers the evidence from outcome studies and argues that adopting a resilience framework suggests that young people leaving care may fall into three groups: young people ‘moving on’, ‘survivors’ and ‘victims’. In concluding, it argues that these three pathways are associated with the quality of care young people receive, their transitions from care and the support they receive after care.