Sarah Bekaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 6205768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Bekaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekaert |
| SIGNATURE | BEKAERT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6128-931X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An early intervention public health approach to violence prevention
PURPOSE: The Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit's Hospital Navigator Scheme (HNS) supports young people presenting to emergency departments (EDs) at moments of vulnerability. Delivered by volunteer Navigator mentors in partnership with community organisations, the HNS aims to disrupt cycles of vulnerability and violence through relational, needs-led support from the ED into the community. METHODS: A realist evaluation examined how, for whom, a…
Mapping the local youth violence prevention ecosystem
Violence is a major public health issue with intergenerational impacts, disproportionately affecting children and young people and contributing to educational disengagement and later harm. Within serious violence prevention policy in England, emerging evidence highlights the promise of mentorship-based Navigator models in engaging vulnerable youth. Focused Diversion extends this approach upstream, targeting earlier vulnerability; however, sustain…
The effectiveness of UK-based interventions to reduce school exclusion. A systematic review
Untangling risky discourse with evidence
Concerns for the long-term health and social well-being of teen mothers and their children arose in the 1970s as early childbearing was depicted as a public health problem. Early researchers identified the high-risk nature of teen mothering and a host of unfavorable maternal-child outcomes. The purpose of this study is to review the research published since 2010 on the outcomes for teen mothers’ offspring ≥ 6 years of age; to examine trends in th…
School Nurse Perspectives of Working with Children and Young People in the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 Pandemic
School nurses are public health specialists with an integral role in the safeguarding of children and young people. This study gathered information about school nurses' approaches to overcome practice restrictions as a result of COVID-19. A cross-sectional survey was administered to school nurses across the United Kingdom. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively. Qualitative data (free-text responses to open-ended questions) were analysed u…
Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the Covid-19 Era
The responsiveness of professionals working with children and families is of key importance for child maltreatment early identification. However, this might be undermined when multifaceted circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce interdisciplinary educational activities. Thanks to technological developments, digital platforms seem promising in dealing with new challenges for professionals' training. We examined a digital approach to c…
Teenaged mother's narratives
This paper reflexively considers the muted narratives of a desire for pregnancy and parenthood in teenaged women's accounts of their journey to motherhood after deciding on abortion with their first, unexpected, pregnancy. By contrast their accounts were replete with good citizenship narratives that attested to pregnancy avoidance. Through the use of the Listening Guide, a feminist, layered, reflexive approach to data analysis, these accounts are…
Family members’ perspectives of child protection services, a metasynthesis of the literature
This metasynthesis brings together what is known about family members’ perspectives of their relationship with social care practitioners as a starting point for developing a pan-European training resource for practitioners. Four databases were searched for qualitative literature with search terms relating to family members and social care practitioners. After the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 35 studies were critically appraise…
Family members’ perspectives of child protection services, a metasynthesis of the literature
This metasynthesis brings together what is known about family members’ perspectives of their relationship with social care practitioners as a starting point for developing a pan-European training resource for practitioners. Four databases were searched for qualitative literature with search terms relating to family members and social care practitioners. After the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 35 studies were critically appraise…
Teenaged mother's narratives
This paper reflexively considers the muted narratives of a desire for pregnancy and parenthood in teenaged women's accounts of their journey to motherhood after deciding on abortion with their first, unexpected, pregnancy. By contrast their accounts were replete with good citizenship narratives that attested to pregnancy avoidance. Through the use of the Listening Guide, a feminist, layered, reflexive approach to data analysis, these accounts are…
Family members’ perspectives of child protection services, a metasynthesis of the literature
This metasynthesis brings together what is known about family members’ perspectives of their relationship with social care practitioners as a starting point for developing a pan-European training resource for practitioners. Four databases were searched for qualitative literature with search terms relating to family members and social care practitioners. After the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 35 studies were critically appraise…
School Nurse Perspectives of Working with Children and Young People in the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 Pandemic
School nurses are public health specialists with an integral role in the safeguarding of children and young people. This study gathered information about school nurses' approaches to overcome practice restrictions as a result of COVID-19. A cross-sectional survey was administered to school nurses across the United Kingdom. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively. Qualitative data (free-text responses to open-ended questions) were analysed u…
Professionals’ Digital Training for Child Maltreatment Prevention in the Covid-19 Era
The responsiveness of professionals working with children and families is of key importance for child maltreatment early identification. However, this might be undermined when multifaceted circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce interdisciplinary educational activities. Thanks to technological developments, digital platforms seem promising in dealing with new challenges for professionals' training. We examined a digital approach to c…
Untangling risky discourse with evidence
Concerns for the long-term health and social well-being of teen mothers and their children arose in the 1970s as early childbearing was depicted as a public health problem. Early researchers identified the high-risk nature of teen mothering and a host of unfavorable maternal-child outcomes. The purpose of this study is to review the research published since 2010 on the outcomes for teen mothers’ offspring ≥ 6 years of age; to examine trends in th…
The effectiveness of UK-based interventions to reduce school exclusion. A systematic review
An early intervention public health approach to violence prevention
PURPOSE: The Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit's Hospital Navigator Scheme (HNS) supports young people presenting to emergency departments (EDs) at moments of vulnerability. Delivered by volunteer Navigator mentors in partnership with community organisations, the HNS aims to disrupt cycles of vulnerability and violence through relational, needs-led support from the ED into the community. METHODS: A realist evaluation examined how, for whom, a…
Mapping the local youth violence prevention ecosystem
Violence is a major public health issue with intergenerational impacts, disproportionately affecting children and young people and contributing to educational disengagement and later harm. Within serious violence prevention policy in England, emerging evidence highlights the promise of mentorship-based Navigator models in engaging vulnerable youth. Focused Diversion extends this approach upstream, targeting earlier vulnerability; however, sustain…
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Poison control (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Suicide prevention (3 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (2 works)