En glädje för hela familjen : Familjehemsföräldrars berättelser om sina relationer med placerade ensamkommande barn och ungdomar.

• Main Authors: Petersson, Mikaela, Mujagic, Nina
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) 2017
• Subjects: unaccompanied children and youths; foster parents; relations; internal working models; systems theory; ensamkommande barn och ungdomar; familjehemsföräldrar; relationer; inre arbetsmodeller; systemteori; Social Work; Socialt arbete
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65053

The aim of this study was to increase the understanding of how foster parents of unaccompanied children and youths build and maintain relations with the foster placed children. Furthermore, this study highlights the foster parents’ view of being a foster parent and the effects of the commitment of being a foster home. The empirical material data has been collected by interviews with seven foster parents’ in Sweden and the theories that have been used for the analysis of the result are systems theory and a concept from the attachment theory, called internal working models. The conclusions of this study are that foster parents of unaccompanied children and youths have an ability to establish a valuable relationship with said children, however they experience cultural and linguistic difficulties in the process of establishing a relationship with the youths and children. Another conclusion is that the foster parents’ family lives have changed in positive terms while being a foster home.