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Papers by Agnes Anden
Qualitative Social Work, 2019
Without access to their own families, how do young, unaccompanied refugee minors re-establish the... more Without access to their own families, how do young, unaccompanied refugee minors re-establish their social lives in ways that facilitate a sense of togetherness in their everyday lives during resettlement? This question was approached by exploring the young persons’ creation of relational practices and the kinds of sociomaterial conditions that seemed to facilitate the evolvement of these practices, including the professional caregivers’ contributions. Interviews with 11 boys and 4 girls (aged 13–16) from Afghanistan, Somalia, Angola and Sri Lanka, as well as their professional caregivers in their country of residence, Norway, were analysed systematically by searching for, and categorizing, the variation of relational practices among the young persons. Three overarching practices are presented. First, the young persons worked to connect past, present and future contexts through collective meaning-making practices. Second, they regulated their peers’ emotions through emotional care p...
Nordic Psychology, Feb 28, 2015
BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden, 2021
Når foreldre med barn under 16 år skal skilles, er det obligatorisk med mekling. Foreldrene får o... more Når foreldre med barn under 16 år skal skilles, er det obligatorisk med mekling. Foreldrene får også invitasjon til at barna skal være med. Dette begrunnes med at barn har behov for å uttrykke seg om sin livssituasjon og har en lovfestet rett til å uttale seg i saker som angår dem. For å utforske hvordan tilbudet om barns deltakelse blir tatt i bruk, ble foreldre og barn i 15 familier med denne erfaringen intervjuet om hendelsen. Det viste seg at meklingstimen var lite preget av rettighetsargumentasjonen fra innkallingen, og at få av barna ble involvert i spørsmål rundt samvær og bosted. Både barn og foreldre ga imidlertid uttrykk for at de satte pris på tiltaket. Barna la vekt på at det var godt å snakke med mekleren, og foreldrene følte at det understreket barnas plass i skilsmisseprosessen, i tillegg til at det fungerte som en sjekk på at det gikk greit med barna. Sentralt i disse vurderingene var tilliten de hadde til mekleren som en vennlig ekspert på å snakke med barn og forel...
International Handbook of Early Childhood Education, 2018
... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene... more ... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene øyeblikket, så har hun i neste omgang gitt etter. ... Burman, Erica (1994) Deconstructing developmental psychology, London, Routledge. ...
Nordisk sosialt arbeid, 2004
... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene... more ... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene øyeblikket, så har hun i neste omgang gitt etter. ... Burman, Erica (1994) Deconstructing developmental psychology, London, Routledge. ...
Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 2020
Infant Mental Health Journal, 2016
The sleep-cycle development of infants is influenced by familial and sociocultural conditions, bu... more The sleep-cycle development of infants is influenced by familial and sociocultural conditions, but there is a lack of knowledge on how parental regulation of infant sleep is related to the specific life situation of a family. This article describes a context-sensitive study of parental regulation of infant sleep that includes the whole 24-hr day, parents' intentions, and familial and sociocultural conditions. The results are based on a longitudinal qualitative study in Norway of 51 families. Parents were interviewed in the infants' first year of life and approximately 18 months later. An interpretive analysis in four steps was conducted, informed by cultural psychological perspectives on development. The parents were found to perform five types of regulatory actions: facilitating sleep, letting sleep, letting be awake, keeping awake, and waking. These actions were performed continuously throughout the 24-hr day, each to different extents and at different hours in individual families, forming a regulation cycle. We describe patterns and variations in regulation cycles, changes over time as increased social synchronization, and how the regulation cycle is embedded in familial and sociocultural conditions. Finally, implications for clinical practice are discussed.
Nordisk Psykologi, 1991
Until now children have not been looked upon as sufficiently reliable to be included in interview... more Until now children have not been looked upon as sufficiently reliable to be included in interview research in social science. This article focuses on the construction and working-out of a way-of-life-interview with small children. The presentation focuses on efforts made to maintain joint attention to the child’s representations of own interactions, and to facilitate the relevant report to the researcher. The conclusion is, however, that age doesn’t change the procedures in any essential way, rather pinpoints the challenges met when doing qualitative interviews.
Child & Family Social Work, 2015
ABSTRACT
Feminism & Psychology, 2015
Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 2014
ABSTRACT
Qualitative Social Work, 2011
Within both politics and research children have been increasingly depicted as autonomous individu... more Within both politics and research children have been increasingly depicted as autonomous individuals with a right to be heard and have a say. Children's Welfare Services has been criticized for neglecting to view children as knowledgeable actors in their own cases. In referring to a national Norwegian study with 109 children aged 6–12 years who were placed out-of-home by Children's Welfare Services, this article proposes strategies to make children more visible in practice as well as within research related to Children's Welfare Services. By conceptualizing such placement as a change of residency, or, more colloquially, the ‘child on the move’, new sources of knowledge appear to be relevant; namely studies about children's everyday life, even encompassing knowledge about ordinary moves in ordinary families. The article concludes that importing methodological approaches and substantial knowledge from research on the everyday lives of unremarkable children to the field...
Qualitative Social Work, 2011
Young people who live in residential homes provided by Child Protection Services generally have l... more Young people who live in residential homes provided by Child Protection Services generally have less favourable life conditions and poorer future prospects than young people in general. Repeated interviews with twelve young persons in residential care brought to attention how their prospective narratives are efficacious and significant for developmental processes. The ideas these youths hold about the future are conditioned by both discourses of development and ideas of what adolescence should lead to, their personal history and the context in which the stories are created and told. Studying these narratives shows how narratives of the future are intertwined with the sense of present being. It illuminates the dynamics between the present and the future and exceeds our understanding of development as a linear track from past to present to future. It also shows how residential care both restricts and gives opportunities for some narratives to be told and interpreted. This approach to ...
Nordic Psychology, 2011
More and more children, even the young ones from the age of one year, attend day care on a regula... more More and more children, even the young ones from the age of one year, attend day care on a regular basis. To investigate how small children are taken care of and live their everyday life in Norway today, and how barnehage is included in their lives, a sample of families were followed from when the children were age one until
Feminism & Psychology, 2013
Qualitative Social Work, 2019
Without access to their own families, how do young, unaccompanied refugee minors re-establish the... more Without access to their own families, how do young, unaccompanied refugee minors re-establish their social lives in ways that facilitate a sense of togetherness in their everyday lives during resettlement? This question was approached by exploring the young persons’ creation of relational practices and the kinds of sociomaterial conditions that seemed to facilitate the evolvement of these practices, including the professional caregivers’ contributions. Interviews with 11 boys and 4 girls (aged 13–16) from Afghanistan, Somalia, Angola and Sri Lanka, as well as their professional caregivers in their country of residence, Norway, were analysed systematically by searching for, and categorizing, the variation of relational practices among the young persons. Three overarching practices are presented. First, the young persons worked to connect past, present and future contexts through collective meaning-making practices. Second, they regulated their peers’ emotions through emotional care p...
Nordic Psychology, Feb 28, 2015
BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden, 2021
Når foreldre med barn under 16 år skal skilles, er det obligatorisk med mekling. Foreldrene får o... more Når foreldre med barn under 16 år skal skilles, er det obligatorisk med mekling. Foreldrene får også invitasjon til at barna skal være med. Dette begrunnes med at barn har behov for å uttrykke seg om sin livssituasjon og har en lovfestet rett til å uttale seg i saker som angår dem. For å utforske hvordan tilbudet om barns deltakelse blir tatt i bruk, ble foreldre og barn i 15 familier med denne erfaringen intervjuet om hendelsen. Det viste seg at meklingstimen var lite preget av rettighetsargumentasjonen fra innkallingen, og at få av barna ble involvert i spørsmål rundt samvær og bosted. Både barn og foreldre ga imidlertid uttrykk for at de satte pris på tiltaket. Barna la vekt på at det var godt å snakke med mekleren, og foreldrene følte at det understreket barnas plass i skilsmisseprosessen, i tillegg til at det fungerte som en sjekk på at det gikk greit med barna. Sentralt i disse vurderingene var tilliten de hadde til mekleren som en vennlig ekspert på å snakke med barn og forel...
International Handbook of Early Childhood Education, 2018
... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene... more ... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene øyeblikket, så har hun i neste omgang gitt etter. ... Burman, Erica (1994) Deconstructing developmental psychology, London, Routledge. ...
Nordisk sosialt arbeid, 2004
... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene... more ... Hun får så vondt av ham når han har grått, så selv om hun har greid å sette grenser i det ene øyeblikket, så har hun i neste omgang gitt etter. ... Burman, Erica (1994) Deconstructing developmental psychology, London, Routledge. ...
Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 2020
Infant Mental Health Journal, 2016
The sleep-cycle development of infants is influenced by familial and sociocultural conditions, bu... more The sleep-cycle development of infants is influenced by familial and sociocultural conditions, but there is a lack of knowledge on how parental regulation of infant sleep is related to the specific life situation of a family. This article describes a context-sensitive study of parental regulation of infant sleep that includes the whole 24-hr day, parents' intentions, and familial and sociocultural conditions. The results are based on a longitudinal qualitative study in Norway of 51 families. Parents were interviewed in the infants' first year of life and approximately 18 months later. An interpretive analysis in four steps was conducted, informed by cultural psychological perspectives on development. The parents were found to perform five types of regulatory actions: facilitating sleep, letting sleep, letting be awake, keeping awake, and waking. These actions were performed continuously throughout the 24-hr day, each to different extents and at different hours in individual families, forming a regulation cycle. We describe patterns and variations in regulation cycles, changes over time as increased social synchronization, and how the regulation cycle is embedded in familial and sociocultural conditions. Finally, implications for clinical practice are discussed.
Nordisk Psykologi, 1991
Until now children have not been looked upon as sufficiently reliable to be included in interview... more Until now children have not been looked upon as sufficiently reliable to be included in interview research in social science. This article focuses on the construction and working-out of a way-of-life-interview with small children. The presentation focuses on efforts made to maintain joint attention to the child’s representations of own interactions, and to facilitate the relevant report to the researcher. The conclusion is, however, that age doesn’t change the procedures in any essential way, rather pinpoints the challenges met when doing qualitative interviews.
Child & Family Social Work, 2015
ABSTRACT
Feminism & Psychology, 2015
Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 2014
ABSTRACT
Qualitative Social Work, 2011
Within both politics and research children have been increasingly depicted as autonomous individu... more Within both politics and research children have been increasingly depicted as autonomous individuals with a right to be heard and have a say. Children's Welfare Services has been criticized for neglecting to view children as knowledgeable actors in their own cases. In referring to a national Norwegian study with 109 children aged 6–12 years who were placed out-of-home by Children's Welfare Services, this article proposes strategies to make children more visible in practice as well as within research related to Children's Welfare Services. By conceptualizing such placement as a change of residency, or, more colloquially, the ‘child on the move’, new sources of knowledge appear to be relevant; namely studies about children's everyday life, even encompassing knowledge about ordinary moves in ordinary families. The article concludes that importing methodological approaches and substantial knowledge from research on the everyday lives of unremarkable children to the field...
Qualitative Social Work, 2011
Young people who live in residential homes provided by Child Protection Services generally have l... more Young people who live in residential homes provided by Child Protection Services generally have less favourable life conditions and poorer future prospects than young people in general. Repeated interviews with twelve young persons in residential care brought to attention how their prospective narratives are efficacious and significant for developmental processes. The ideas these youths hold about the future are conditioned by both discourses of development and ideas of what adolescence should lead to, their personal history and the context in which the stories are created and told. Studying these narratives shows how narratives of the future are intertwined with the sense of present being. It illuminates the dynamics between the present and the future and exceeds our understanding of development as a linear track from past to present to future. It also shows how residential care both restricts and gives opportunities for some narratives to be told and interpreted. This approach to ...
Nordic Psychology, 2011
More and more children, even the young ones from the age of one year, attend day care on a regula... more More and more children, even the young ones from the age of one year, attend day care on a regular basis. To investigate how small children are taken care of and live their everyday life in Norway today, and how barnehage is included in their lives, a sample of families were followed from when the children were age one until
Feminism & Psychology, 2013