Jackie Sanders
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3674543 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jackie Sanders |
| NOMBRES | Jackie |
| APELLIDO | Sanders |
| FIRMA | SANDERS J |
| AFILIACIONES | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3741-0794 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Relationship-based practice training and youth outcomes
When asked about their experiences of services, young people often said that they were lucky when their social workers built a positive relationship with them, suggesting such experiences were not common. Yet the quality of the relationship between social workers and youth is a strong predictor of positive outcomes, indicating that while relationship-based practice (RBP) is key to youth outcomes, there is a need for specific training that builds …
Culturally and Contextually Relevant Definitions of the Five Cs
This study aimed to investigate if and how the Five Cs were related to the perception of program outcomes in different PYD programs in Aotearoa/New Zealand. A qualitative, exploratory methodology was employed within a critical realist epistemology, including semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 110 youth, aged 12 – 25 years, and 17 staff in 14 different local PYD programs. Data were analyzed using framework analysis. Inductive analysi…
From Partnership to Ownership
This article presents an example of a community-university research partnership which was focused on issues of sustainability and long-term community benefit throughout. It documents a five-year relationship between an Aotearoa New Zealand based university and a number of youth and community organisations. The project aimed to co-develop tools and resources that would support youth and social service practitioners to maintain effective helping re…
Creating equilibrium
This paper uses critical realism to identify mechanisms that activate successful relationships. It draws data from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of youth who used multiple services. It examines functionality of four relational mechanisms: power, recognition, responsiveness and mutuality that lead to positive change and explores the implications of these for practice with youth with complex needs
Relational Resources for Change - New Futures for Youth With Complex Needs
This research project creates and tests sets of resources that support practitioners to build effective change-focused relationships with young people. It does this using a Community of Practice (CoP) approach that brings together researchers, social sector and tangata whenua (indigenous) practitioners and international experts. The research has three steps: (1) Development of prototype resources; (2) Testing the prototype to confirm usability an…
Fine Companions
This article discusses the alignment of framework analysis with a critical realist philosophy in qualitative analysis. Whilst both are used in social sciences and prioritise meaning making of complex phenomena, the two approaches have not been combined prior to the study outlined in this article. The article describes critical realist ontology and epistemology, the implications of this philosophy for data analysis and the structured processes of …
Learning Across the Chasm
Transformative practice
Social workers across the globe are being challenged to provide meaningful support to young people who face multiple challenges. Drawing on the findings of a longitudinal study of vulnerable young people’s transitions to adulthood, this article explores the key elements of effective social work practice with vulnerable young people. The young people (aged between 12 and 17 at the first interview) had experienced chronic exposure to adversity from…
Earning, learning, and access to support
Thinking About Glass Walls
Shame and recognition
Drawing on the findings from a longitudinal study of vulnerable young people's transitions to adulthood, this paper explores the ideas of shame and recognition. The young people, aged between 12 and 17 years at the first interview, had experienced chronic exposure to adversity from an early age (abuse, violence, mental health issues, addictions, and expulsion from school). They were clients of statutory and non‐governmental services: child welfar…
The impact of the social context on externalizing risks – Implications for the delivery of programs to vulnerable youth
Improving educational outcomes for at‐risk students
Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of at‐risk youth ( n = 593), this article reports on the analysis of factors that enabled these youth to succeed at school. It considers the impact of three baseline factors (age, gender, ethnicity) and a number of time‐dynamic factors [positive school environment, additional educational support, positive peer and parent relationships, exclusion/expulsion from school, depression and externalising individu…
Pathways to educational aspirations
Educational aspirations play an important role in educational achievement, understanding more about the factors that shape aspirations should enable educators and others who support young people to better articulate educational ambitions and then to work towards their achievement. Given this, the current paper uses a form of integrative data analysis to examine two issues. First, it identifies that a social ecological measure of resilience mediat…
Conditional openness
Taking the reforms of child protection legislation that have occurred since the 1980s as a backdrop, this paper considers young people’s perspectives on the factors that facilitated their engagement with child protection services and the barriers they perceived to effective service delivery. Drawing on findings from a New Zealand study of young people’s experience of multiple service use (child protection, mental health, youth justice and remedia…
Culture and context
Harm, opportunity, optimism
Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of young people’s transitions to adulthood, this article explores the experiences of young people who face high levels of adversity. These young people had experienced challenging circumstances from an early age (exposure to harm and to impoverished social and material conditions). This article draws on the qualitative phase of the study. Young people and a trusted other, nominated by the young person, pa…
Hidden in Plain View
This article elaborates upon a model used to engage marginalized young people in a longitudinal study of youth transitions. The model PARTH elaborates upon a set of principles that were successfully used to engage marginalized young people in a 6-year project. PARTH principles focus researcher attention on the ways they think about and relate to young people and they support researchers to empowerment and the exercise of personal agency by young …
The Same But Different? Applicability of a General Resilience Model to Understand a Population of Vulnerable Youth
In Transition – Patterns of Development and Change Among Vulnerable Young People
Finding Meaningful Support
This paper reports on the qualitative phase of a New Zealand study of young people who had been exposed to “risky” environments from a young age. These young people had experienced traumatic events such as abuse, violence, addictions, mental health issues, and many had been excluded from school. The young people (aged between 13 and 17) were users of multiple services (statutory and nongovernmental services including: child welfare, juvenile just…
Foster parents
This article draws on the findings from the qualitative phase of a New Zealand longitudinal study concerning vulnerable young people’s transitions to adulthood, the challenges they faced, their experiences with services and the factors that helped lead to positive outcomes. It reports on the experiences of foster parents and their perspectives on what contributed to meaningful support for these young people. The youth (aged 12 to 17 years at the …
A positive youth development measure of service use satisfaction for youth
Staying on‐track despite the odds
This article draws on the findings from a mixed‐methods New Zealand study of the experience of service use of 605 vulnerable young people (aged 13–17 years). Drawing on the survey data, it focuses on the factors that assisted young people to stay on‐track with their education. Key findings include: being able to stay at mainstream school was the strongest predictor of capacity to stay on‐track. Additional educational services did not appear to co…
The role of positive youth development practices in building resilience and enhancing wellbeing for at-risk youth
Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (Cyrm-28) on a Sample of At-Risk New Zealand Youth
Purpose: This article reports on an examination of the psychometric properties of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). Methods: Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach’s α, t-tests, correlations, and multivariate analysis of variance were applied to data collected via interviews from 593 at-risk adolescents (12–17 years) to identify the factor structure, internal consistency, test–retest reliabilit…
Harm, opportunity, optimism
Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of young people’s transitions to adulthood, this article explores the experiences of young people who face high levels of adversity. These young people had experienced challenging circumstances from an early age (exposure to harm and to impoverished social and material conditions). This article draws on the qualitative phase of the study. Young people and a trusted other, nominated by the young person, pa…
Youth-centred practice
Losing self to the future? Young women's strategic responses to adulthood transitions
The multiple and conflicting identity pressures that young women in western society face have been remarked upon in the literature. Adolescence is a time when identity development activity intensifies, and this process can present young people with challenges. In this paper a social constructionist and interpretive frame is applied to such challenges faced by young women, arguing that they are refracted through socially constructed lenses that op…
Hidden in Plain View
This article elaborates upon a model used to engage marginalized young people in a longitudinal study of youth transitions. The model PARTH elaborates upon a set of principles that were successfully used to engage marginalized young people in a 6-year project. PARTH principles focus researcher attention on the ways they think about and relate to young people and they support researchers to empowerment and the exercise of personal agency by young …
Negotiating and Constructing Identity
This article explores the experiences of at-risk young people. Based on a mixed-methods study of young people (n = 605) aged between thirteen and seventeen who used multiple services (child welfare, youth justice, education support and mental health), this article focuses on their processes of identity negotiation and construction. These young people had experienced sustained exposure to harm including abuse, violence, addictions, disengagement f…
The ‘right time’ – negotiating the timing of interviews with vulnerable young people
Participant retention is a key factor in determining the success of longitudinal research. Challenges in re-locating and retaining participants over the long term are major issues for researchers working with young people who face adversity and experience frequent changes in circumstances. This article reports on a study of vulnerable young people and their transition into adulthood. Rather than the more conventional schedule-based approach to lo…
Ethics and Research
This article explores the ethical questions that were central to a qualitative study of the parenting experiences of parents with an intellectual disability. The study was located in three cities in New Zealand and involved 19 parents who have an intellectual disability. It considers three aspects of the research process, all of which involve significant ethical matters that need to be addressed throughout the research process. The first concerns…
Fine Companions
This article discusses the alignment of framework analysis with a critical realist philosophy in qualitative analysis. Whilst both are used in social sciences and prioritise meaning making of complex phenomena, the two approaches have not been combined prior to the study outlined in this article. The article describes critical realist ontology and epistemology, the implications of this philosophy for data analysis and the structured processes of …
Shame and recognition
Drawing on the findings from a longitudinal study of vulnerable young people's transitions to adulthood, this paper explores the ideas of shame and recognition. The young people, aged between 12 and 17 years at the first interview, had experienced chronic exposure to adversity from an early age (abuse, violence, mental health issues, addictions, and expulsion from school). They were clients of statutory and non‐governmental services: child welfar…
Peer paradox
The contribution peer relationships make to positive adolescent development is well recognized. Accordingly, peer problem measures typically assess youth with few age‐appropriate peers as having peer problems. Yet, youth facing high levels of personal and/or social adversity may reduce their association with antisocial peers as part of coping or risk mitigation strategies. While such strategies will result in higher scores on peer problem measure…
Transformative practice
Social workers across the globe are being challenged to provide meaningful support to young people who face multiple challenges. Drawing on the findings of a longitudinal study of vulnerable young people’s transitions to adulthood, this article explores the key elements of effective social work practice with vulnerable young people. The young people (aged between 12 and 17 at the first interview) had experienced chronic exposure to adversity from…
Improving educational outcomes for at‐risk students
Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of at‐risk youth ( n = 593), this article reports on the analysis of factors that enabled these youth to succeed at school. It considers the impact of three baseline factors (age, gender, ethnicity) and a number of time‐dynamic factors [positive school environment, additional educational support, positive peer and parent relationships, exclusion/expulsion from school, depression and externalising individu…
Foster parents
This article draws on the findings from the qualitative phase of a New Zealand longitudinal study concerning vulnerable young people’s transitions to adulthood, the challenges they faced, their experiences with services and the factors that helped lead to positive outcomes. It reports on the experiences of foster parents and their perspectives on what contributed to meaningful support for these young people. The youth (aged 12 to 17 years at the …
Show Some Emotion
There is debate about the proper role of emotions in research; however, in the pursuit of certain research questions, an emotional impact on researchers is unavoidable and has the potential to engulf researchers and research processes. This article explores the emotional challenges involved in completing a large, mixed-methods research project focused on high-risk youth. We outline four dilemmas researchers confronted as they managed the emotiona…
Looking inside the bag of tools
This paper examines the development of fieldwork methodology in a study that investigated the parenting experiences and parent support needs of a group of parents with an intellectual disability. It considers the ways in which the original planning for the project changed as the fieldwork unfolded, requiring adaptations to our methodological expectations and in the process deepening our understanding of the phenomena we were studying and reinforc…
Conditional openness
Taking the reforms of child protection legislation that have occurred since the 1980s as a backdrop, this paper considers young people’s perspectives on the factors that facilitated their engagement with child protection services and the barriers they perceived to effective service delivery. Drawing on findings from a New Zealand study of young people’s experience of multiple service use (child protection, mental health, youth justice and remedia…
Staying on‐track despite the odds
This article draws on the findings from a mixed‐methods New Zealand study of the experience of service use of 605 vulnerable young people (aged 13–17 years). Drawing on the survey data, it focuses on the factors that assisted young people to stay on‐track with their education. Key findings include: being able to stay at mainstream school was the strongest predictor of capacity to stay on‐track. Additional educational services did not appear to co…
Paths to Positive Development
Rethinking late and lost to follow-up participants
This article examines the demographic characteristics of youth who were interviewed on time, located late or lost for a second interview in a three-year study of vulnerable adolescents called the New Zealand youth transitions study. It reports on the results of an analysis to determine whether or not the considerable effort invested in trying to locate these youth three times made a difference to the quality of the data. Chi-Square test, Fisher's…
Culture and context
A positive youth development measure of service use satisfaction for youth
Earning, learning, and access to support
Finding Meaningful Support
This paper reports on the qualitative phase of a New Zealand study of young people who had been exposed to “risky” environments from a young age. These young people had experienced traumatic events such as abuse, violence, addictions, mental health issues, and many had been excluded from school. The young people (aged between 13 and 17) were users of multiple services (statutory and nongovernmental services including: child welfare, juvenile just…
Drawing out strengths and building capacity in social work with troubled young women
This paper compares the experiences of a group of marginalized young women with two groups that remained socially engaged. Drawing from a qualitative study of young women aged between 13 and 15 years, we identify four areas (understandings and experiences of well‐being, use of space, making wishes, and emotional and household labour) that illuminated the ways in which marginalized young women articulated their experiences differently from those y…
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
This article explores three of the challenges that qualitative researchers face when working in the family health and well-being field. It is based on the authors' experiences of an ongoing research program that involves research in a human services organization and a family-focused community study. The authors discuss three challenges in the context of this experience and highlight the ways in which they have resolved them within this research p…
Drawing out strengths and building capacity in social work with troubled young women
This paper compares the experiences of a group of marginalized young women with two groups that remained socially engaged. Drawing from a qualitative study of young women aged between 13 and 15 years, we identify four areas (understandings and experiences of well‐being, use of space, making wishes, and emotional and household labour) that illuminated the ways in which marginalized young women articulated their experiences differently from those y…
Ethics and Research
This article explores the ethical questions that were central to a qualitative study of the parenting experiences of parents with an intellectual disability. The study was located in three cities in New Zealand and involved 19 parents who have an intellectual disability. It considers three aspects of the research process, all of which involve significant ethical matters that need to be addressed throughout the research process. The first concerns…
Losing self to the future? Young women's strategic responses to adulthood transitions
The multiple and conflicting identity pressures that young women in western society face have been remarked upon in the literature. Adolescence is a time when identity development activity intensifies, and this process can present young people with challenges. In this paper a social constructionist and interpretive frame is applied to such challenges faced by young women, arguing that they are refracted through socially constructed lenses that op…
Looking inside the bag of tools
This paper examines the development of fieldwork methodology in a study that investigated the parenting experiences and parent support needs of a group of parents with an intellectual disability. It considers the ways in which the original planning for the project changed as the fieldwork unfolded, requiring adaptations to our methodological expectations and in the process deepening our understanding of the phenomena we were studying and reinforc…
Conformity and Resistance in Self-Management Strategies of `Good Girls
This article examines how girls manage challenging encounters with non-familial adults. Drawing on a subset of qualitative data collected as part of a larger ethnographic study, it examines the ways girls maintain a strong sense of self as a good person in the face of interpersonal challenge from these non-familial adults. The discourse of the `good girl' allows them to resist excessive demands of adults and provides opportunities to have fun. Th…
Enhancing outcomes for children and young people
Rethinking late and lost to follow-up participants
This article examines the demographic characteristics of youth who were interviewed on time, located late or lost for a second interview in a three-year study of vulnerable adolescents called the New Zealand youth transitions study. It reports on the results of an analysis to determine whether or not the considerable effort invested in trying to locate these youth three times made a difference to the quality of the data. Chi-Square test, Fisher's…
Validation of the Hektner Future Emotions Questions as a Scale for Use with Youth in New Zealand
The ‘right time’ – negotiating the timing of interviews with vulnerable young people
Participant retention is a key factor in determining the success of longitudinal research. Challenges in re-locating and retaining participants over the long term are major issues for researchers working with young people who face adversity and experience frequent changes in circumstances. This article reports on a study of vulnerable young people and their transition into adulthood. Rather than the more conventional schedule-based approach to lo…
Peer paradox
The contribution peer relationships make to positive adolescent development is well recognized. Accordingly, peer problem measures typically assess youth with few age‐appropriate peers as having peer problems. Yet, youth facing high levels of personal and/or social adversity may reduce their association with antisocial peers as part of coping or risk mitigation strategies. While such strategies will result in higher scores on peer problem measure…
Youth-centred practice
Show Some Emotion
There is debate about the proper role of emotions in research; however, in the pursuit of certain research questions, an emotional impact on researchers is unavoidable and has the potential to engulf researchers and research processes. This article explores the emotional challenges involved in completing a large, mixed-methods research project focused on high-risk youth. We outline four dilemmas researchers confronted as they managed the emotiona…
The role of positive youth development practices in building resilience and enhancing wellbeing for at-risk youth
Patterns of individual coping, engagement with social supports and use of formal services among a five-country sample of resilient youth
Differing amounts of formal resources in low-, middle- and high-income countries influence patterns of service use. Implications for better coordination between formal mental health services and social supports are discussed
Paths to Positive Development
Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (Cyrm-28) on a Sample of At-Risk New Zealand Youth
Purpose: This article reports on an examination of the psychometric properties of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). Methods: Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach’s α, t-tests, correlations, and multivariate analysis of variance were applied to data collected via interviews from 593 at-risk adolescents (12–17 years) to identify the factor structure, internal consistency, test–retest reliabilit…
Negotiating and Constructing Identity
This article explores the experiences of at-risk young people. Based on a mixed-methods study of young people (n = 605) aged between thirteen and seventeen who used multiple services (child welfare, youth justice, education support and mental health), this article focuses on their processes of identity negotiation and construction. These young people had experienced sustained exposure to harm including abuse, violence, addictions, disengagement f…
The Same But Different? Applicability of a General Resilience Model to Understand a Population of Vulnerable Youth
In Transition – Patterns of Development and Change Among Vulnerable Young People
Finding Meaningful Support
This paper reports on the qualitative phase of a New Zealand study of young people who had been exposed to “risky” environments from a young age. These young people had experienced traumatic events such as abuse, violence, addictions, mental health issues, and many had been excluded from school. The young people (aged between 13 and 17) were users of multiple services (statutory and nongovernmental services including: child welfare, juvenile just…
Foster parents
This article draws on the findings from the qualitative phase of a New Zealand longitudinal study concerning vulnerable young people’s transitions to adulthood, the challenges they faced, their experiences with services and the factors that helped lead to positive outcomes. It reports on the experiences of foster parents and their perspectives on what contributed to meaningful support for these young people. The youth (aged 12 to 17 years at the …
A positive youth development measure of service use satisfaction for youth
Staying on‐track despite the odds
This article draws on the findings from a mixed‐methods New Zealand study of the experience of service use of 605 vulnerable young people (aged 13–17 years). Drawing on the survey data, it focuses on the factors that assisted young people to stay on‐track with their education. Key findings include: being able to stay at mainstream school was the strongest predictor of capacity to stay on‐track. Additional educational services did not appear to co…
Pathways to educational aspirations
Educational aspirations play an important role in educational achievement, understanding more about the factors that shape aspirations should enable educators and others who support young people to better articulate educational ambitions and then to work towards their achievement. Given this, the current paper uses a form of integrative data analysis to examine two issues. First, it identifies that a social ecological measure of resilience mediat…
Psychology (36 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Developmental psychology (23 obras) · Social Psychology (23 obras) · Social Psychology (19 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Youth Development and Social Support (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Mental health (10 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras)