Ann‐sofie Bergman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann‐sofie Bergman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann‐sofie |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergman |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMAN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5202-0722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Historical Perspectives on Foster Care Payments: Changing Practices During the 20th Century
Payment of foster carers has long been a controversial issue, reflecting the question of whether fostering is a voluntary or professional activity. This article explores explanations for the change that took place during the twentieth century concerning economic compensation to foster parents for caring for other people’s children in their homes. The study is based on document analysis of the child welfare discourse and practice in Sweden. The da…
Privatisation of child protection investigations and its consequences for the professional use of discretion in social work
How Are Children Involved? Participation of Children in the Process of Matching With Foster Families
Children have the right to be informed and to express their views on all matters affecting them. When children are placed in foster care, social services are responsible for ensuring that the child receives ‘good care’. This requires a matching process. Matching means that children and foster families must ‘fit together’. Matching can be understood as a multistage process in which the child has the right to participate. With Sweden as the case in…
Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home
Matching a child with a foster home is a professional practice with considerable room for discretion since there are no specific guidelines in Sweden. The aim is to describe what knowledge do social workers’ assessments build upon in the matching process. The material consists of matching investigation files of 116 children from 6 municipalities in Sweden. A data form was used to assemble excerpts of descriptions of the child’s needs and how the …
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Children with disabilities are over‐represented in foster care and exposed to more disruptions. This is unfortunate because they need long‐term relationships and predictability, as well as access to special schools and health care. Disruption can be the result of a poor match between the child and the foster family. In this article, we focus on the matching process in relation to children with disabilities. Zeijlmans et al. describe matching as t…
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities ( n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for a comprehensive understanding. Twenty children f…
Child protection investigations by private consultants or municipally employed social workers: What are the differences for children
In Sweden, a practice has developed where the social services have started to hire private consultants in child protection investigations. This article analyses and compares the handling of child protection investigations carried out by private consultants and municipally employed social workers with regard to the reasons for the reports, the investigations, the assessments, and the decisions taken about interventions. The concepts funnel and fil…
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child
The aim of this article is to investigate how children's care responsibility is recognised in records of personal assistance carried out by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA). The article consists of document analysis, examining how caring activities are made visible in the records, and professionals' views and actions regarding responsibilities placed on children. Data consist of 100 cases randomly selected from the SSIA register amongst…
Whether Disabled Parents Receive Personal Assistance for Parenting and the Consequences for Children—An Interview Study
Personal assistance, since its implementation in 1993, has been shown to provide support for persons with severe functional disabilities in their everyday life, ensuring inclusion in societal roles such as working life. Personal assistance (PA) may also provide support in parenting; however, with the right to PA becoming increasingly questioned in Sweden, parents with disabilities have varying experiences of receiving support for their role as pa…
The Take-off for Private Consultants in Child Protection Investigations—How Did Sweden Get Here
The use of private consultants in child protection investigations in Sweden is an evolving practice that occurs under the radar; it is not in the political agenda and it is obscure in relation to legislation. The aim of this article is to analyse the contextual forces, facilitators and intentions behind the ongoing implementation of privatisation in child protection investigations. For this article, both quantitative and qualitative data for the …
Strategies of austerity used in needs assessments for personal assistance – changing Swedish social policy for persons with disabilities
The austerity measures in social welfare implemented by street-level bureaucrats in their practice are changing the direction of social policy. This article examines the strategies used by public officials in implementing austerity measures in needs assessment for personal assistance in Sweden. The article is based on a document study with N = 100 records of needs assessment for personal assistance for persons with serious functional disabilities…
Supported Visitation in Cases of Violence: Political Intentions and Local Practice in Sweden
In Sweden, supervised visitation has been replaced with a new measure called supported visitation. In the reform process, it was emphasized that if face to face visitation cannot be organized without risk for the child, indirect visitation or no visitation are to be considered better options. The aim of this article is to explore social work practice regarding supported visitation in cases involving violence. It draws on a study of a local visita…
Young carers in Sweden—A pilot study of care activities, view of caring, and psychological well‐being
Children who have parents with any kind of illness may become young carers who take a responsibility not expected of children for household tasks, or personal or emotional care for parents and siblings. So far, little is known about children in Sweden who are at risk of becoming young carers. The aim of this article is therefore to explore the extent and impact of children's caring activities as reported in a pilot study by a sample of children i…
In a Proper Home: Foster Children’s Needs and Foster Parents’ Suitability during the Twentieth Century
In all times and in all societies, there have been children who for various reasons have not been able to grow up with their biological parents. The solutions to the problems have varied; in Sweden, most of the children have been placed in foster care. Because of the act regulating state childcare passed in 1926, child welfare boards were established in the municipalities. These boards were responsible for placing children with foster parents and…
On the medical and social welfare models
On the medical and social welfare models. A S BergmanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.67.12.1211-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities ( n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for a comprehensive understanding. Twenty children f…
Strategies of austerity used in needs assessments for personal assistance – changing Swedish social policy for persons with disabilities
The austerity measures in social welfare implemented by street-level bureaucrats in their practice are changing the direction of social policy. This article examines the strategies used by public officials in implementing austerity measures in needs assessment for personal assistance in Sweden. The article is based on a document study with N = 100 records of needs assessment for personal assistance for persons with serious functional disabilities…
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Children with disabilities are over‐represented in foster care and exposed to more disruptions. This is unfortunate because they need long‐term relationships and predictability, as well as access to special schools and health care. Disruption can be the result of a poor match between the child and the foster family. In this article, we focus on the matching process in relation to children with disabilities. Zeijlmans et al. describe matching as t…
Young carers in Sweden—A pilot study of care activities, view of caring, and psychological well‐being
Children who have parents with any kind of illness may become young carers who take a responsibility not expected of children for household tasks, or personal or emotional care for parents and siblings. So far, little is known about children in Sweden who are at risk of becoming young carers. The aim of this article is therefore to explore the extent and impact of children's caring activities as reported in a pilot study by a sample of children i…
The Take-off for Private Consultants in Child Protection Investigations—How Did Sweden Get Here
The use of private consultants in child protection investigations in Sweden is an evolving practice that occurs under the radar; it is not in the political agenda and it is obscure in relation to legislation. The aim of this article is to analyse the contextual forces, facilitators and intentions behind the ongoing implementation of privatisation in child protection investigations. For this article, both quantitative and qualitative data for the …
In a Proper Home: Foster Children’s Needs and Foster Parents’ Suitability during the Twentieth Century
In all times and in all societies, there have been children who for various reasons have not been able to grow up with their biological parents. The solutions to the problems have varied; in Sweden, most of the children have been placed in foster care. Because of the act regulating state childcare passed in 1926, child welfare boards were established in the municipalities. These boards were responsible for placing children with foster parents and…
On the medical and social welfare models
On the medical and social welfare models. A S BergmanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.67.12.1211-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
In a Proper Home: Foster Children’s Needs and Foster Parents’ Suitability during the Twentieth Century
In all times and in all societies, there have been children who for various reasons have not been able to grow up with their biological parents. The solutions to the problems have varied; in Sweden, most of the children have been placed in foster care. Because of the act regulating state childcare passed in 1926, child welfare boards were established in the municipalities. These boards were responsible for placing children with foster parents and…
Supported Visitation in Cases of Violence: Political Intentions and Local Practice in Sweden
In Sweden, supervised visitation has been replaced with a new measure called supported visitation. In the reform process, it was emphasized that if face to face visitation cannot be organized without risk for the child, indirect visitation or no visitation are to be considered better options. The aim of this article is to explore social work practice regarding supported visitation in cases involving violence. It draws on a study of a local visita…
Young carers in Sweden—A pilot study of care activities, view of caring, and psychological well‐being
Children who have parents with any kind of illness may become young carers who take a responsibility not expected of children for household tasks, or personal or emotional care for parents and siblings. So far, little is known about children in Sweden who are at risk of becoming young carers. The aim of this article is therefore to explore the extent and impact of children's caring activities as reported in a pilot study by a sample of children i…
Strategies of austerity used in needs assessments for personal assistance – changing Swedish social policy for persons with disabilities
The austerity measures in social welfare implemented by street-level bureaucrats in their practice are changing the direction of social policy. This article examines the strategies used by public officials in implementing austerity measures in needs assessment for personal assistance in Sweden. The article is based on a document study with N = 100 records of needs assessment for personal assistance for persons with serious functional disabilities…
The Take-off for Private Consultants in Child Protection Investigations—How Did Sweden Get Here
The use of private consultants in child protection investigations in Sweden is an evolving practice that occurs under the radar; it is not in the political agenda and it is obscure in relation to legislation. The aim of this article is to analyse the contextual forces, facilitators and intentions behind the ongoing implementation of privatisation in child protection investigations. For this article, both quantitative and qualitative data for the …
Whether Disabled Parents Receive Personal Assistance for Parenting and the Consequences for Children—An Interview Study
Personal assistance, since its implementation in 1993, has been shown to provide support for persons with severe functional disabilities in their everyday life, ensuring inclusion in societal roles such as working life. Personal assistance (PA) may also provide support in parenting; however, with the right to PA becoming increasingly questioned in Sweden, parents with disabilities have varying experiences of receiving support for their role as pa…
Child protection investigations by private consultants or municipally employed social workers: What are the differences for children
In Sweden, a practice has developed where the social services have started to hire private consultants in child protection investigations. This article analyses and compares the handling of child protection investigations carried out by private consultants and municipally employed social workers with regard to the reasons for the reports, the investigations, the assessments, and the decisions taken about interventions. The concepts funnel and fil…
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child
The aim of this article is to investigate how children's care responsibility is recognised in records of personal assistance carried out by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA). The article consists of document analysis, examining how caring activities are made visible in the records, and professionals' views and actions regarding responsibilities placed on children. Data consist of 100 cases randomly selected from the SSIA register amongst…
Matching Process Concerning Children With Disabilities in Family Foster Care
Children with disabilities are over‐represented in foster care and exposed to more disruptions. This is unfortunate because they need long‐term relationships and predictability, as well as access to special schools and health care. Disruption can be the result of a poor match between the child and the foster family. In this article, we focus on the matching process in relation to children with disabilities. Zeijlmans et al. describe matching as t…
Factors Associated With Stability for Children in Family Foster Care: A Study of Case Files in Six Municipalities in Sweden
Stability is vital for the development, health and relationships of children in family foster care. Instability can lead to social and school issues, low self‐esteem and diminished trust in caregivers. This article examines the risk and protective factors for stability for these children. Data, drawn from case files in six municipalities ( n = 116), combine qualitative and quantitative analyses for a comprehensive understanding. Twenty children f…
Historical Perspectives on Foster Care Payments: Changing Practices During the 20th Century
Payment of foster carers has long been a controversial issue, reflecting the question of whether fostering is a voluntary or professional activity. This article explores explanations for the change that took place during the twentieth century concerning economic compensation to foster parents for caring for other people’s children in their homes. The study is based on document analysis of the child welfare discourse and practice in Sweden. The da…
Privatisation of child protection investigations and its consequences for the professional use of discretion in social work
How Are Children Involved? Participation of Children in the Process of Matching With Foster Families
Children have the right to be informed and to express their views on all matters affecting them. When children are placed in foster care, social services are responsible for ensuring that the child receives ‘good care’. This requires a matching process. Matching means that children and foster families must ‘fit together’. Matching can be understood as a multistage process in which the child has the right to participate. With Sweden as the case in…
Matching the general or the specific child with a foster home
Matching a child with a foster home is a professional practice with considerable room for discretion since there are no specific guidelines in Sweden. The aim is to describe what knowledge do social workers’ assessments build upon in the matching process. The material consists of matching investigation files of 116 children from 6 municipalities in Sweden. A data form was used to assemble excerpts of descriptions of the child’s needs and how the …
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Child protection (5 works)