Aftercare for Young People with experiences of Public Care

Established by the Board of Department on June 3, 2026, to be valid from spring term 2027.

* Note! The following course literature may have been published in later editions/years. At the start of the course, the latest edition applies.

Andersson, G. (2018). Relationship to parents in adulthood with a background of out‐of‐home care in childhood Child & Family Social Work. 23, 633–639. DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12454 (6 p.)

Bečević, Z., & Dahlstedt, M. (2021). On the margins of citizenship: Youth participation and youth exclusion in times of neoliberal urbanism. Journal of Youth Studies. 25(3) 362-379 https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1886261 (17 p.)

Bečević, Z. & Höjer, I. (2024). Examining narratives of Swedish care-leaving bureaucracy from a lived citizenship perspective: framing the problem in political terms. European journal of social work. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2344003 (12 p.)

Bennwik, I.H.B., Oterholm, I., & Kelly, B. (2022). ‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care. Child & Family Social Work. 28, 443-453 https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12975 (10 p.)

Blomberg-Kroll, H., & Kettunen, P. (2019). The Nordic welfare state: staying fit-for-purpose. Nordics.info. http://nordics.info/show/artikel/the-nordic-welfare-state-staying-fit-for-purpose/

Blomberg, H. K., Kroll, K. C., & Kallio, J. M. (2018). On the changing frontline of welfare delivery: views on social assistance recipients among Finnish frontline workers. The journal of poverty and social justice, 26(2), 263-280. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982718X15232796966637 (17 p.)

Blomberg-Kroll, H., Kroll, C., Campbell, J., Donnelly, S., Havrdová, Z., Hradcová, D., Machado, I., Melo, S., Lorenz, W., Povolná, P., Reis, J. A., Roets, G., Roose, R. & Van Beveren, L., 2023, Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Swedish School of Social Science. 17 p. (SSKH Notat; vol. 2023, no. 1)

Boddy, J., Lausten, M., Backe-Hansen, E., & Gundersen, T. (2019). Understanding the lives of care-experienced young people in Denmark, England and Norway A cross-national documentary review. Copenhagen: FIVE (summary, 2 p.) https://www.vive.dk/en/publications/understanding-the-lives-of-care-experienced-young-people-in-denmark-england-and-norway-11766/

Brady, E., & Gilligan, R. (2018). The life course perspective: An integrative research paradigm for examining the educational experiences of adult care leavers? Children and Youth Services Review, 87, 69-77. [https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.019](https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2018.1494032%20(14) (8 p.)

Oterholm, I. & Höjer, I. (2024). When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course perspective. 29, 538-547 [https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13111 ](https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13111%20(9) (9 p.)

Dima, G., & Skehill, C. (2011). Making sense of leaving care: The contribution of Bridges model of transition to understanding the psycho-social process. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(12), 2532-2539. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.08.016 (7 p.)

Farragher, R., Göbbels-Koch, P., Hor, J.P., &  Smith, A. (2023). Care foundations: making care central in research with care-experienced people 148–166 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447366317.ch008

Granholm, C. (2016). Blended Lives: ICT Talk among Vulnerable Young People in Finland. YOUNG, 24(2), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308815613188

Gunawardena, N., & Stich, C. (2021). Interventions for young people aging out of the child welfare system: A systematic literature review. Children and youth services review,127, 106076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106076

Hiles, D., Moss, D., Wright, J., & Dallos, R. (2013). Young people's experience of social support during the process of leaving care: A review of the literature. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(12), 2059-2071 (12 p.)

Höjer, I. & Oterholm, I. (2023). Foster carers´views of the transition from foster care to adulthood for young people with mental health problems form a life-course perspective. Nordic Social Work Research (14 p.)

Hutchison, E. D. (2019). An Update on the Relevance of the Life Course Perspective for Social Work. Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 100(4), 351-366. doi:10.1177/1044389419873240 (15 p.)

Khoo, E., Nygren. L. & Gümüscü, A. (2020). From needs to relationships to organisations: Transactional complexity in social work in the Swedich Social Services. 50(7) 2098-2115 British Journal of Social Work doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcz141 (17 p.)

MacDonald, M., Wright, A. C., Taylor-Beswick, A., Gillespie, K., Collings, S., & Gillespie, K. (2023). Digital relationality, rights, resilience: Conceptualising a digital social ecology for children’s birth family relationships when in care or adopted. British Journal of Social Work, 53(1), 216-235. Advance online publication. [https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac140](https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac140%20(19) (19 p.)

MacDonald, M., & Marshall, G. (2021). Lasting Relationships in Foster Care: Research for Practice Summary. Barnardos (1 p.)

Mupaku, Wendy; Bennwik, Ingri-Hanne Brænne; Kelly, Berni (2023). Methodological issues when interviewing disabled care-leavers: lessons learned from South Africa, Norway and Northern Ireland. I: Living on the Edge - Innovative Research on Leaving Care and Transitions to Adulthood. Policy Press 111-128 (17 p.)

Mølholt, A-K. (2023). Living an unstable life: exploring facets of instability in the lives of care-leavers in Denmark 188–203 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447366317.ch010

Okland, I. Holgersen & Oterholm, I. (2022). Strengthening supportive networks for care leavers: A scoping review of social support interventions in child welfare services. Children and Youth Services Review ;Volum 138. s. 1-11 (10 p.)

Oterholm, I. & Paulsen, V. (2018). Young people and social workers´experience of differences between child welfare services and social services. Nordic Social Work Research. Volum 8. (S1) s. 19-29 (10 p.)

Rasmusson, B., Hyvönen, U., Nygren, L. Khoo, E. (2010). Child-centered social work practice – three unique meanings in the context of looking after children and the assessment framework in Australia, Canada and Sweden Children and Youth Services Review 32(3) 452-259 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.10.025 (7 p.)

Roberts, H., Bradby, H., Ingold, A., Manzotti, G., Reeves, D., & Liabo, K. (2017). Moving on: multiple transitions for unaccompanied child migrants leaving care in England and Sweden. International Journal of Social Science Studies, 5(9), 25-34. [https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v5i9.2523](https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v5i9.2523%20(9) (9 p.)

Soderqvist, A. (2014). Leaving Care with "Cultural Baggage": The Development of an Identity within a Transnational Space. Australian Social Work, 67(1), 39–54. [https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2013.863955](https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2013.863955%20(15) (15 p.)

Wissö, T., Johansson, H. & Höjer, I. (2019). What is a family? Constructions of family and parenting after a custody transfer from birth parents to foster parents, 24 9-16 Child & Family Social Work (7 p.)

Wissö, T., Melke, A., Josephson, I. (2022). Social workers´constructions of parents to children in foster care. Qualitative Social Work (17 p.)

Webb, P., Falls, D., Keenan, F. et al. Peer researchers’ experiences of a co-produced research project on supported decision-making. Res Involv Engagem 8, 70 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00406-1](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00406-1%20(10) (10 p.)