Dealing with the Past in the Transition from Care. A post-structural analysis of young people's accounts.
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Children and youth services review 33 (2011) Nr. 12, S. 2519-2525Abstract
Young people experiencing the transition from care often are weighed down by their past, both through their early experiences, but also by the way their past is made relevant in encounters with others. The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, to present a critical discursive analysis of young people's accounts of themselves in the transition from care. Secondly, to shed light on three different ways of making the transition from care; transition through a break with the past after moving out, transition through continuing change and transition as a way of dealing with the risk of further problems in their lives. The study is qualitative and includes 27 young women and men recruited from three child welfare institutions in the Oslo region of Norway. A multi-method approach including interviews, observations and documents has been used. The analytical framework is inspired by poststructuralist theory
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Children and youth services review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Children and youth services review, 33,12 2011. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.08.021