Questionaire for social services worker

Today i have gathered the questions i would like to ask the social services worker in my interview. I will be using an unstructured interview so from this i can gather qualitative data.

• How long have you worked for social services

• What were the most common reasons children were placed institutions

• Do you think placing children in institutions traumatizes  them

• Do you think the quality of care can change the negative effects institutions can have on a child

• Do you believe that many children placed in institutions go on to commit crimes, if so what type of crimes

          Do you think it is healthy for children to be placed in institutions

Article in newspaper

i found this really intresting story published in the gurdian in 2009 about kids who sent to an institutional back in the 1960's and they were beaten and raped. I thought this would be useful to back up my essay about the effects of institutionalisation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child-abuse-claims

what are we doing to help instittutionalised Children and their families?

http://www.rainbowkids.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=423

This article is like a guidance for parents who have adopted children who have previously institutionalised and stating how to help them attach and grow into a healthy normal child.

Many other organizations such as Childline, social services, NSSPC have being founded by the goverment to help children who have being institutionalised but also those who have being abused.

study 3: Genie by Curtis extreme Privation

http://as-psychology.pbworks.com/w/page/9174253/DeprivationPrivation

This article explains abit about effects of privation and meternal deprevation. It also focuses on the study of 'Genie' by Curtis. This study shows the extremes of privation and how it can effect the child's growth.

study 2: Keith E Rice - Romanian orphanes

http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/romanian_orphans_investigation.html

This is also another good study that would be useful because Rice focused on how instutionalisation can be good or bad depending on the conditions also he focused on separation and how institutions can cause maternal deprevation which will link into my case sudy on on Genie.

Study 1 : into Instituionalised Children

http://www.holah.karoo.net/hodgesstudy.htm

Jill Hodges and Barbara Tizard (1989)

Social and Family Relationships of Ex-institutional Adolescents

This study is important to what i am trying to find out because Hodges and Tizard conducted a longitudinal study on children who have being instutionalised and some got adopted but many stayed in the instutional and others went back to their orginal parents. They compared how well these children grew up and attached.

Research for project

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96apr/orphan/weisorp.htm

'When Parents Are Not in the Best Interests of the Child'
This article talks about the history of children institutuions and how they have changed over time. I liked this article because it mentions how institutions in past may have not being able to actually help kids who had psychological problems thus ended up in mental institutuins or even worse. It also brings up the question about wether some troubled children are better of institutionalised than living with families. It also give figures of the number of children in institutions comparing the past to now. I think this will be good information to use in my project.