Over the last two decades, calls to promote children’s participation in decisions that affect their welfare have burgeoned. Increasingly, children are being considered stakeholders, rather than merely passive objects of concern, both in national policy reform and individual case decision making. Once viewed as incapable of providing reliable information on their own lives, children are now recognized as viable informants. Consequently, the foster care literature is replete with discussions regarding how best to incorporate children’s perspectives to improve policy, practice, research, and outcomes. Given the rising dependence on children’s reports, the need for evidence-based methods of eliciting reliable information from children is clear. However, little attention is being paid to the efficacy of the methods used to elicit information from children. Similarly, there has been little discussion of what factors influence the reliability of children’s reports or the calculus by which adults decide how to weigh children’s input. In response to this pressing need, we set out to conduct a systematic review to determine whether a core body of relevant, rigorous research exists regarding the efficacy of interview methods used to elicit reliable information from children in foster care...Art.nr. 2015-1-17
134 s., utgitt av Socialstyrelsen i 2015.