Holding It Together? Professional Perspectives on the Role of Relationships when Relocating Young People due to Extra-familial Harm

When young people come to harm in extra-familial contexts, professionals may move them a distance from their home community to protect them, and in doing so disrupt relationships in which they have encountered harm. However, relocations can also fracture young people’s protective relationships with family, peers, and professionals; relationships that have been positioned as targets for intervention in cases of extra-familial harm. The extent to which these relationships are considered during relocations is under-explored. Utilising semi-structured interviews with 16 social work professionals in England and Wales, we assessed their accounts of using relationships prior to, during, and following relocations in cases of extra-familial harm. Three themes emerged: using relationships during relocations to provide consistency, to collaborate, and to create safety. Professional accounts prioritised young people’s relationships with practitioners, over relationships with families, peers, and their wider communities, when using/seeking opportunities to offer consistency and to collaborate on safety plans. They also depicted a struggle to engage with the complex web of family, peer, and community relationships associated to young people’s protection in both their home communities and those they had been moved to; relationships that were critical for creating safety. Implications for practice and future research are discussed, highlighting the potential merits of offering integrated research and practice frameworks that hold together young people’s relationships with families, peers, communities, and professionals, in response to extra-familial harm.

Outsiders in current Slovak literature for children and youth

Within the solution of the project APVV-17-0071 Support of Reading Literacy in the Mother Tongue and Foreign Language, it is also important to reflect on outsidership as a certain ambivalent phenomenon, which appears after 1989 in contemporary Slovak literature for children and youth in various analogies. One of the aims of the study is to define the initial concept of outsider from various professional perspectives. We will also focus on the methodological basis of research of outsiders (social status, otherness, disadvantage, bullying, rebellion), not only in contemporary artistic texts but also in working exercises with regard to the learning language style.

Professional Perspectives of the Management Course Students – Class of 2015 of the Vale do Acaraú University – UVA/IDJ

This article aims to analyze the premises, perspectives and professional expectations of students who enter the Administration course. For this purpose, the following specific objectives were listed: characterize the public investigated as to some social and economic aspects; identify the main justifications that influenced the choice of the course of Administration and analyze the perspectives and expectations regarding the choice of the same. The study was characterized from two aspects, as well as the ends and the means. According to the ends, the research will be descriptive and as to the means, the research will be bibliographical, field. The study is indicating as basic, descriptive, with a quantitative approach, it ran from January 2018 to December of the same year. Field research took place in November 2018 and was conducted with 10 university students of the administration course, who are attending the 8th semester. For the data collection, a structured questionnaire was used with closed questions, based on the Lickert scale, later on the tabulation of the data. In the analysis, it was noticed how much the course of administration has been growing in the country, as well as the multiple interests that correlate to the choice of administration course, as well as wage pretension, development of the entrepreneurial career and the importance of the course for local development. Keywords: Professional Expectations. Perspectives. Management course.