Committed to Caring: Family-Based Short-Break Carers' Views of Their Role

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Tarleton
Keyword(s):  
Support Needs ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Staff Time ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Regular Care ◽  
Family Based ◽  
High Support ◽  
The Way

Short-break carers are short-term foster carers who provide regular care, often one weekend a month, for disabled children. Beth Tarleton reports on a study of 53 short-break carers offering short breaks for children with high support needs. The research found that short-break carers provided short breaks because they enjoyed it and developed real relationships with the children, but that the way in which they were recruited, assessed, trained, paid and supported was often influenced by a lack of staff time and resources, and a lack of clarity regarding their role.

Working together works well: A longitudinal evaluation of a family-based placement program for children with a disability and very high support needs

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Julie Hind ◽  
Judith Woodland
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Permanency Planning ◽  
Longitudinal Evaluation ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Support

This paper is based on a three-year longitudinal evaluation of a family-based placement and support program for children with disabilities and high support needs. Particular lessons emerged about the importance of partnerships: between caseworker and alternative family; the alternative family and the birth family; and the caseworker and the birth family.The evaluation used case studies, following ten children through the life of the study. A qualitative approach drew on people's experiences to understand individual perspectives and to identify patterns and themes to gain insight into the factors contributing to success.The study was informed by international literature, including: Maluccio et al (1983, 1986) and Smith (1995) in relation to permanency planning; Thoburn (1986, 1990, 1994) and Wedge (1986) in relation to hard-to-place children; and Argent and Kerrane (1997) who demonstrate that continuing contact between birth and alternative families can work well with support from workers.This article focuses on one part of the evaluation - the development of relationships. The relationship between the caseworker and the alternative family is a key to the success of the placement. In the best examples of good practice, the relationship is one of partnership, with both partners having the interests of the child as their central focus.The partnership is not evident in dealing with birth families. We note the strongest relationships are where birth families have an ongoing role in caring for their child. In some cases, the alternative family takes on a role of supporting the birth family's ongoing involvement with their child. The paper explores the different relationships and points to further possible areas of future research.

Economic valuation and the commodification of ecosystem services

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gómez-Baggethun ◽  
Manuel Ruiz-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Valuation Of Ecosystem Services ◽  
Equity Of Access ◽  
The Way

In the last decade a growing number of environmental scientists have advocated economic valuation of ecosystem services as a pragmatic short-term strategy to communicate the value of biodiversity in a language that reflects dominant political and economic views. This paper revisits the controversy on economic valuation of ecosystem services in the light of two aspects that are often neglected in ongoing debates. First, the role of the particular institutional setup in which environmental policy and governance is currently embedded in shaping valuation outcomes. Second, the broader economic and sociopolitical processes that have governed the expansion of pricing into previously non-marketed areas of the environment. Our analysis suggests that within the institutional setup and broader sociopolitical processes that have become prominent since the late 1980s economic valuation is likely to pave the way for the commodification of ecosystem services with potentially counterproductive effects in the long term for biodiversity conservation and equity of access to ecosystem services benefits.

Explorative study into support needs of caregivers in short-term foster care regarding problem behaviour and dealing with biological parents

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Van Holen ◽  
Johan Vanderfaeillie ◽  
Femke Vanschoonlandt ◽  
Skrällan De Maeyer ◽  
Tim Stroobants
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Problem Behaviour ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Biological Parents

scholarly journals Towards the best future for humankind: ZIPAR whitepaper.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Kovic ◽  
Christian Caspar ◽  
Adrian Rauchfleisch
Keyword(s):  
Medium Term ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Way

Humankind is facing major challenges in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term future. Those challenges will have a profound impact on humankind’s future progress and wellbeing. In this whitepaper, we outline our understanding of humankind’s future challenges, and we describe the way in which we work towards identifying as well as managing them. In doing so, we pursue the overall goal of ZIPAR: We want to make the best future for humankind (ever so slightly) more probable.

Doctors and Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Dominic Scott ◽  
R. Edward Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Combined Model ◽  
Rational Persuasion ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the way the models of the doctor and the teacher can be combined, where the leader as doctor makes their remedies more palatable to their followers by rational persuasion. The first part describes this combined model in Plato’s last work, the Laws, where the legislator is compared to a doctor who listens to his patients and then educates them about the nature and origin of their disease. Combining the two models anticipates our notion of ‘informed consent’: if the patient/follower is addressed rationally, they will be more inclined to take the remedy. The second part uses two case studies from previous chapters: Roy Vagelos, who appeared as an example of the corporate doctor, can also been seen as a teacher; and Indra Nooyi, who educated her stakeholders at Pepsi and can be seen as a corporate doctor, trying to ween the company off short-term thinking.

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