Blar i forfatter "Holtan, Amy"

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    • Analyse i kvalitativ forskning – Det vi ikke skriver om 

      Eriksen, Sissel H.; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-02)
      Tema for artikkelen er prosessen der vi reduserer et forskningsmateriale fra kvalitative intervjuer til data i en analyse. Vi viser eksempler på hva forskeren velger eller ikke velger å bruke som data i analysen når et større empirisk materiale skal reduseres gjennom en analyseprosess. Vi diskuterer mulige årsaker til at noe av det empiriske materialet forblir ubrukt i analysen. Det kan være at ...

    • Children’s relationships with birth parents in childhood and adulthood: A qualitative longitudinal study of kinship care 

      Skoglund, Jeanette; Thørnblad, Renee; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-27)
      The topic of interest in this paper is the relationship between children who live in kinship care and their birth parents – through childhood and adulthood. The focus is on what <i>meaning</i> and <i>content</i> children themselves ascribe to such relationships and how this changes over time. To explore this question, we draw on a qualitative longitudinal data set, in which children who grew up in ...

    • Do frequency of visits with birth parents impact children’s mental health and parental stress in stable foster care settings 

      Fossum, Sturla; Vis, Svein Arild Myhra; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-13)
      This article explores whether the number of visits by birth parents influence perceptions of attachment, children’s competence and mental health, and stress levels in foster parents. Foster parents acted as informants regarding 203 children living in kinship and non-kinship foster care. The children were young when placed in foster care, on average 2.3 years old (SD = 1.0) and had been living in the ...

    • Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment 

      Winokur, Marc; Holtan, Amy; Valentine, D (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009-01-21)
      Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing these children in out-of-home settings that will facilitate their safety, permanency, and well-being. However, children in out-of-home placements typically display more educational, behavioral, and psychological problems than do their ...

    • Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of maltreated children. Updated 

      Winokur, Marc; Holtan, Amy; Batchelder, Keri E (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009-01-21)
      Child abuse and neglect are common problems across the world that result in negative consequences for children, families and communities. Children who have been abused or neglected are often removed from the home and placed in residential care or with other families, including foster families. Foster care was traditionally provided by people that social workers recruited from the community specifically ...

    • Kinship foster parenting : gender, class and labour-force participation 

      Holtan, Amy; Thørnblad, Renee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009)

    • The meaning and making of childhoods in kinship care – young adults' narratives 

      Skoglund, Jeanette; Holtan, Amy; Thørnblad, Renee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-09)
      This article draws on interviews with 26 young adults (15 women and 11 men, aged 19–29) who grew up in long-term kinship care in Norway, and explore how they portray their childhoods. Our starting point is that the foster child status provide cultural and public narratives, images and positions for the young adults to employ when interpreting childhood experiences. The question we ask is how this ...

    • The meaning of biology in the foster family narratives of young adults 

      Skoglund, Jeanette; Thørnblad, Renee; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-14)
      While biological relatedness has been an issue among anthropologists for some time, the topic has gained little interest in family sociology. Recent contributions exploring how genetic thinking – the process through which biological relationships are rendered meaningful in everyday family living – shapes family life, suggest that this is about to change. This article seeks to contribute to this ...

    • Obstacles for child participation in care and protection cases : why Norwegian social workers find it difficult 

      Vis, Svein Arild; Holtan, Amy; Nigel, Thomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Although some attempts are being made to increase children's participation in Norwegian child protection cases, much needs to be done in order to comply with the participation principle in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This paper reports on a study of factors that are likely to predict if social workers will attempt to give children an effective voice in decision making ...

    • Parenting stress among Norwegian kinship and non-kinship foster parents 

      Vis, Svein Arild; Lauritzen, Camilla; Fossum, Sturla; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-14)
      There are several studies conducted on parenting stress, and the conclusion in the parenting stress research literature is generally that parenting stress decreases the quality of the parent-child relationship. There are however few studies on parenting stress comparing kinship homes to ordinary types of foster homes. The aims of this study were to measure parenting stress in kinship and non-kinship ...

    • Placement disruption in long-term kinship and nonkinship foster care 

      Holtan, Amy; Handegård, Bjørn Helge; Thørnblad, Renee; Vis, Svein Arild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to placement disruption in long-term kinship and nonkinship foster care in a Nordic country. The study included 136 children aged 4–13 years in kinship and nonkinship foster care in Norway in the year 2000, with updates for the year 2008. Placement and demographic information and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) were collected from foster ...

    • Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care 

      Mabille, Geraldine; Skoglund, Jeanette; Thørnblad, Renee; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-24)
      This study examines how history of care, on one hand, and social support, on the other hand, predict satisfaction with life after leaving care by focusing on a sample of young adults raised in foster care in Norway. When aged between 19 and 29, youths answered questionnaires that mapped their past history of care, living conditions, social relationships and life satisfaction. Results show that the ...

    • Selvmordsforebyggende arbeid : fagfolks forståelse av kyndig praksis 

      Jessen, Pia Birgitte; Holtan, Amy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009)

    • Social functioning and mental health among children who have been living in kinship and non-kinship foster care: results from an 8-year follow-up with a Norwegian sample 

      Vis, Svein Arild; Handegård, Bjørn Helge; Holtan, Amy; Thørnblad, Renee; Fossum, Sturla (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)

    • Welfare and labour-force participation of kinship foster mothers 

      Holtan, Amy; Thørnblad, Renee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2009)
      Objective: Kinship foster care has become the placement of choice in the Western world. This article explores the welfare, labour-force participation, and caregiving role of kinship foster mothers in Norway. <br>Method: The study supplements a quantitative study of Norwegian long-term kinship and nonkinship foster care with a qualitative study of parenting in formal kinship foster care. A total of ...