Hans Grietens
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 191114 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hans Grietens |
| PRENOMES | Hans |
| SOBRENOME | Grietens |
| ASSINATURA | GRIETENS H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8849-3430 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Be(com)ing Family
When a child enters a foster family, it weaves an intricate web that profoundly changes the relationships and bonds of all involved, making it difficult to define ‘family’ using predefined criteria. Despite the far‐reaching impact on all involved, no previous study has systematically reviewed and qualitatively analysed how parents, foster carers, children of foster carers and foster care workers in kith, kinship or nonkinship care understand fami…
Roots and routes
Who is involved in child protection investigations? The relationship between gender, ethnicity/migration background, and contacts between parents and caseworkers during investigations and assessments
Involvement of parents in child protection investigations and assessments is important and associated with the quality of care in the system. However, it seems that not all parents are involved to the same extent. Mothers seem to be more involved compared to fathers and parents of minoritized ethnic groups or with migration backgrounds seem less likely to be involved compared to parents of advantaged ethnic populations. In this study, we operatio…
Grasping ethnic identity fluctuations of transculturally placed foster youth
Transcultural placements occur frequently in foster care, and impact the ethnic identity of ethnic minority foster youth. Studies that investigate how foster youth’s ethnic identity develop over time, and what role ethnic minority as well as ethnic majority influences play, are extremely scarce. Therefore, we conducted a longitudinal qualitative study, in which we explored how transculturally placed foster youth develop their ethnic identity and …
(Re)defining family
Fostering a sense of belonging
This study examines how fostered individuals, foster carers, bio-legal children of foster carers and birth parents use discourse to construct and maintain family identity and what may influence this use. Focus group and interview data show how family terminology may create a sense of family, affirm and strengthen ties, erase distinctions, promote inclusion and conformity and protect, refute and explain ties to in- and outsiders. Family terminolog…
The ethnic identity of transracially placed foster children with an ethnic minority background
Background Ethnic minority foster children are frequently placed in families with ethnic majority backgrounds. In the international literature these placements are most commonly called transracial placements. Aims With this study, we aim to obtain an encompassing view of the empirical scientific literature on how transracial placements may affect the ethnic identity of foster children. Materials and methods To gain insight into the ethnic identit…
Child and Youth Coaching in families experiencing complex and multiple problems
Studies investigating services for families experiencing complex and multiple problems have emphasized the need for more child‐centred support. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate whether providing child‐centred services (Child and Youth Coaching) combined with family‐focused services (Ten for the Future) is effective for children growing up in families experiencing complex and multiple problems. Children's psychosocial skills, …
The interplay of youth and care characteristics with a positive social climate in therapeutic residential youth care
Limited research exists on how therapeutic residential youth care (TRC) achieves treatment outcomes. More specifically, little is known about the association between contextual factors such as treatment organization, youth characteristics, and experienced social climate in TRC. Therefore, this study aims to investigate differences between latent classes of TRC and youth characteristics and their association with a positive perceived social TRC cl…
Being one, but not being the same”
To gain insight into ethnic socialization by ethnic majority foster parents who take care of ethnic minority foster youth, we conducted a comparative dyadic analysis, based on 16 foster parent‐foster youth dyads. Outcomes show that foster parents' first concern was providing a safe environment for their foster youth, and not ethnic minority socialization. Foster parents seem to strive to belong together as one family with their foster youth. As p…
Fidelity and flexibility of care activities in child-centered youth care for children growing up in families experiencing complex and multiple problems
Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of child and family welfare have emphasized the need for child-centered services for children growing up in families experiencing complex and multiple problems (FECMP). However, the provision of evidence-based services for these children requires knowledge of the care activities of these services. The aim of this study was to investigate care activities and considerations related to the ca…
ADHD and Brain Anatomy
Studies of brain size of children classified with ADHD appear to reveal smaller brains when compared to ‘normal’ children. Yet, what does this mean? Even with the use of rigorously screened case and control groups, these studies show only small, average group differences between children with and without an ADHD classification. However, academic textbooks used in the Netherlands often portray individual children with an ADHD classification as hav…
Child protection in Mexico
Participation of Children Involved in the Child Protection System – Validation of the Meaningful Participation Assessment Tool (MPAT)
Children have the right to participate in child protection investigations. Although research suggests that participation is related to positive outcomes of children in the child protection system, children’s participation is not always facilitated in practice. Therefore, it is important to validate tools that can be used to further investigate children’s participation. We examined the psychometric properties (i.e., reliability, internal validity,…
The ethnic identity complexity of transculturally placed foster youth in the Netherlands
Development of atypical parental behavior during an inpatient family preservation intervention program
Since failed reunification is a detrimental outcome for children, particularly infants and toddlers, the aim of this study was to gain insight into support to families in multiple‐problem situations to help them achieve sustainable good‐enough parenting. Therefore, we examined outcomes of an assessment‐based inpatient family preservation program. We prepared a thorough target‐population description ( n = 70) using file analysis. Next, we examined…
Determinants and outcomes of social climate in therapeutic residential youth care
Learning from parents
The quality of parents' experiences with the child protection system (CPS) is related to the outcomes of their family's process in the system. The importance of collaboration with parents in child protection is underpinned by human and children's rights conventions addressing the right for family life and parents being first responsible in fulfilling children's rights. We interviewed 20 parents about their experiences with the Dutch CPS. Our them…
To preserve or not to preserve
How do youth in foster care view the impact of traumatic experiences
Meaningful participation for children in the Dutch child protection system
Policymakers are increasingly focusing on the participation of children in the child protection system (CPS). However, research shows that actual practice still needs to be improved. Embedding children's participation in legislation and policy documents is one important prerequisite for achieving meaningful participation in child protection practice. In this study, the participation of children in the Dutch CPS under the new Youth Act 2015 is cri…
Balancing between caregiving and professionalism—Women's narratives on fostering a victim of maternal sexual abuse
The impact of sexual abuse on children is enormous, particularly when a child is abused sexually by a mother figure. In order to gain insight into the experiences of this rarely studied group, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected. The narratives were coded inductively, and several topics concerning foster motherhood were studied more in‐depth. Four key themes emerged in the women's narratives:…
Nothing goes as planned”
Matching children with foster carers is an important step in every nonkinship family foster care placement. Although guidelines for matching are provided in several studies, the case‐specific context of the decision can influence the practitioners' ability to adhere to these guidelines. Therefore, this study answers the following question: “How does the case‐specific context influence the practitioners' decision‐making process regarding matching …
Matching children with foster carers
Assessing Parenting in the Context of Reunification of Infants/Toddlers and Their Families
Since a substantial portion of infants and toddlers reenter care after reunification, the question of whether family reunification is feasible needs to be answered very cautiously. How parenting is assessed is of major importance in answering this question, but the quality of these assessments is often poor. With an eye to improving current practice, we conducted an integrative review, in which we analyzed the challenges related to the assessment…
Holding Harm
In this article, we question narrative inquiry's predominant ethics of benefit when engaging in narrative research on trauma and social suffering. Through a particular focus on the use of a narrative methodology in a refugee health study, we explore the potential risk and protective function of narrative trauma research with vulnerable respondents. A review of ethical questions emerging during the course of a multiple-case study with refugee fami…
Assessing Parenting in the Context of Reunification of Infants/Toddlers and Their Families
Since a substantial portion of infants and toddlers reenter care after reunification, the question of whether family reunification is feasible needs to be answered very cautiously. How parenting is assessed is of major importance in answering this question, but the quality of these assessments is often poor. With an eye to improving current practice, we conducted an integrative review, in which we analyzed the challenges related to the assessment…
Self-reported care activities in a home-based intervention programme for families with multiple problems
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and application of the KIPP-list of care activities. The acronym KIPP stands for Knowledge and Insight into Primary Processes. The instrument is intended as a tool for family coaches to systematically report care activities conducted in the Dutch family support programme Ten for the Future (in Dutch: Tien voor Toekomst). Design/methodology/approach – The design of the instrument w…
Learning from parents
The quality of parents' experiences with the child protection system (CPS) is related to the outcomes of their family's process in the system. The importance of collaboration with parents in child protection is underpinned by human and children's rights conventions addressing the right for family life and parents being first responsible in fulfilling children's rights. We interviewed 20 parents about their experiences with the Dutch CPS. Our them…
To talk or not to talk?’
Outcomes of a coaching program for families with multiple problems in the Netherlands
Is Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Associated With Parenting and Family Factors
The present study investigates the association of parenting and family factors with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in preadolescents. A sample of 1,439 preadolescents and their parents were assessed by means of (a) adolescent-reported parenting behaviors (support and behavioral/psychological control), (b) parent-reported parenting behaviors (support and behavioral/psychological control) and parenting stress, and (c) parent-reported family structu…
Searching for effective interventions for foster children under stress
Foster children experience a lot of stress because of their life histories and changes in their family circumstances, such as foster care placement. It is important that foster parents recognize the early signs of stress in foster children and learn how to act in a non‐threatening and understanding manner. Family‐based interventions may help in this. In this paper, we report on a meta‐analysis of studies ( n = 19) of the effectiveness of such int…
Intensive family preservation services in Flanders
Set up as a one‐group pre‐test–post‐test follow‐up design, this study examines the outcomes of intensive family preservation services (IFPS) in Flanders addressing the following research questions: Does IFPS make a significant difference concerning (1) the interaction between parent and child? (2) social support as experienced by the parent? (3) stress and empowerment of the parent? and (4) the strengths and difficulties of the minor? Families se…
The ethnic identity complexity of transculturally placed foster youth in the Netherlands
How do youth in foster care view the impact of traumatic experiences
A longitudinal study of childhood social behaviour
This study examined inter-informant agreement, inter-context agreement, and social preference linkages for social behaviour subtypes. On two occasions, data was collected on 600 children (8-10 years old) via mother, father, teacher, and peer reports. Informant reports converged within each context and agreement across school and home contexts was strong for overt aggression and for prosocial behaviour, but less pronounced for relational aggressio…
Cross-cultural Validation of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory in Belgium (Flanders)
Balancing between caregiving and professionalism—Women's narratives on fostering a victim of maternal sexual abuse
The impact of sexual abuse on children is enormous, particularly when a child is abused sexually by a mother figure. In order to gain insight into the experiences of this rarely studied group, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected. The narratives were coded inductively, and several topics concerning foster motherhood were studied more in‐depth. Four key themes emerged in the women's narratives:…
Nothing goes as planned”
Matching children with foster carers is an important step in every nonkinship family foster care placement. Although guidelines for matching are provided in several studies, the case‐specific context of the decision can influence the practitioners' ability to adhere to these guidelines. Therefore, this study answers the following question: “How does the case‐specific context influence the practitioners' decision‐making process regarding matching …
Foster Carer-Foster Child Intervention (FFI)
The Foster carer-Foster child Intervention (FFI) was developed to help foster carers recognise and cope with the stress that foster children under the age of five might experience when placed in a new family. Children who have been neglected or abused may have difficulty coping with stress and develop behavioural problems, and young children in particular can develop passive avoidance behaviour as a way of adapting to their new situation. The FFI…
Fostering a sense of belonging
This study examines how fostered individuals, foster carers, bio-legal children of foster carers and birth parents use discourse to construct and maintain family identity and what may influence this use. Focus group and interview data show how family terminology may create a sense of family, affirm and strengthen ties, erase distinctions, promote inclusion and conformity and protect, refute and explain ties to in- and outsiders. Family terminolog…
Child and Youth Coaching in families experiencing complex and multiple problems
Studies investigating services for families experiencing complex and multiple problems have emphasized the need for more child‐centred support. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate whether providing child‐centred services (Child and Youth Coaching) combined with family‐focused services (Ten for the Future) is effective for children growing up in families experiencing complex and multiple problems. Children's psychosocial skills, …
Being one, but not being the same”
To gain insight into ethnic socialization by ethnic majority foster parents who take care of ethnic minority foster youth, we conducted a comparative dyadic analysis, based on 16 foster parent‐foster youth dyads. Outcomes show that foster parents' first concern was providing a safe environment for their foster youth, and not ethnic minority socialization. Foster parents seem to strive to belong together as one family with their foster youth. As p…
Participation of Children Involved in the Child Protection System – Validation of the Meaningful Participation Assessment Tool (MPAT)
Children have the right to participate in child protection investigations. Although research suggests that participation is related to positive outcomes of children in the child protection system, children’s participation is not always facilitated in practice. Therefore, it is important to validate tools that can be used to further investigate children’s participation. We examined the psychometric properties (i.e., reliability, internal validity,…
The developing relationship between recently placed foster infants and toddlers and their foster carers
Nonbehavioral Correlates of Juvenile Delinquency
Focusing on nonbehavioral correlates of juvenile delinquency, young people’s attitudinal reactions toward social limits were measured by means of the Standard Reaction Instrument (SRI). Responses of 85 detained young offenders were compared with those of 390 nondetained controls. Relationships between attitudinal reactions and scores on the Youth Self-Report’s delinquent behavior and aggressive behavior syndromes were examined. Significant differ…
Behavioral and Emotional Problems Reported by Parents of Children Ages 6 to 16 in 31 Societies
This study compared parents' ratings of behavioral and emotional problems on the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991;Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) for general population samples of children ages 6 to 16 from 31 societies ( N = 55,508). Effect sizes for society ranged from .03 to .14. Effect sizes for gender were ≤ .01, with girls generally scoring higher on Internalizing problems and boys generally scoring higher on Externalizing problems. Ef…
Cross-cultural Validation of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory in Belgium (Flanders)
Parent–child interactions and relational aggression in peer relationships
Intensive family preservation services in Flanders
Set up as a one‐group pre‐test–post‐test follow‐up design, this study examines the outcomes of intensive family preservation services (IFPS) in Flanders addressing the following research questions: Does IFPS make a significant difference concerning (1) the interaction between parent and child? (2) social support as experienced by the parent? (3) stress and empowerment of the parent? and (4) the strengths and difficulties of the minor? Families se…
A longitudinal study of childhood social behaviour
This study examined inter-informant agreement, inter-context agreement, and social preference linkages for social behaviour subtypes. On two occasions, data was collected on 600 children (8-10 years old) via mother, father, teacher, and peer reports. Informant reports converged within each context and agreement across school and home contexts was strong for overt aggression and for prosocial behaviour, but less pronounced for relational aggressio…
Holding Harm
In this article, we question narrative inquiry's predominant ethics of benefit when engaging in narrative research on trauma and social suffering. Through a particular focus on the use of a narrative methodology in a refugee health study, we explore the potential risk and protective function of narrative trauma research with vulnerable respondents. A review of ethical questions emerging during the course of a multiple-case study with refugee fami…
Searching for effective interventions for foster children under stress
Foster children experience a lot of stress because of their life histories and changes in their family circumstances, such as foster care placement. It is important that foster parents recognize the early signs of stress in foster children and learn how to act in a non‐threatening and understanding manner. Family‐based interventions may help in this. In this paper, we report on a meta‐analysis of studies ( n = 19) of the effectiveness of such int…
Foster Carer-Foster Child Intervention (FFI)
The Foster carer-Foster child Intervention (FFI) was developed to help foster carers recognise and cope with the stress that foster children under the age of five might experience when placed in a new family. Children who have been neglected or abused may have difficulty coping with stress and develop behavioural problems, and young children in particular can develop passive avoidance behaviour as a way of adapting to their new situation. The FFI…
Is there a pan-European perspective on evidence-based practice in child welfare? A critical reflection
Purpose – This paper is about the implementation of the evidence-based practice paradigm in child welfare in Europe. Our main question is whether there is a pan-European perspective on evidence-based working in this area, and if so, how it can be characterised. Design/methodology/approach – We try to answer this question by means of a theoretical analysis, which is focusing on three issues: the construct “Europe”, recent evolutions in child welfa…
Is Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Associated With Parenting and Family Factors
The present study investigates the association of parenting and family factors with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in preadolescents. A sample of 1,439 preadolescents and their parents were assessed by means of (a) adolescent-reported parenting behaviors (support and behavioral/psychological control), (b) parent-reported parenting behaviors (support and behavioral/psychological control) and parenting stress, and (c) parent-reported family structu…
Outcomes of a coaching program for families with multiple problems in the Netherlands
Self-reported care activities in a home-based intervention programme for families with multiple problems
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and application of the KIPP-list of care activities. The acronym KIPP stands for Knowledge and Insight into Primary Processes. The instrument is intended as a tool for family coaches to systematically report care activities conducted in the Dutch family support programme Ten for the Future (in Dutch: Tien voor Toekomst). Design/methodology/approach – The design of the instrument w…
The developing relationship between recently placed foster infants and toddlers and their foster carers
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Families in multi-problem situations
The article reviews practical experiences and theoretical reflections from the Dutch child and youth care sector on the provision of care for families with multiple problems. Emphasis is laid upon the complex relations between socioeconomic and psychosocial problems, and subsequent issues that may arise in arranging child and youth care. Furthermore, the current state of discussion in program development for the target group in the Netherlands is…
Is Anybody Listening? The Literature on the Dialogical Process of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Reviewed
We conducted an exploratory review of the current literature on child sexual abuse disclosure in everyday contexts. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of relevant publications on the process of child sexual abuse disclosure, in order to generate new directions for future research and clinical practice. The findings of the exploratory review show that disclosure is a relational process, which is renegotiated by each interaction and e…
To talk or not to talk?’
Optimizing foster family placement for infants and toddlers
The relationship between foster children and their foster carers comes with many risks and may be very stressful both for parents and children. We developed an intervention (foster family intervention [FFI]) to tackle these risks. The intervention focuses on foster children below the age of 5 years. The objective was to investigate the effects of FFI on the interactions between foster parents and foster children. A randomized control trial was ca…
Matching children with foster carers
Assessing Parenting in the Context of Reunification of Infants/Toddlers and Their Families
Since a substantial portion of infants and toddlers reenter care after reunification, the question of whether family reunification is feasible needs to be answered very cautiously. How parenting is assessed is of major importance in answering this question, but the quality of these assessments is often poor. With an eye to improving current practice, we conducted an integrative review, in which we analyzed the challenges related to the assessment…
Meaningful participation for children in the Dutch child protection system
Policymakers are increasingly focusing on the participation of children in the child protection system (CPS). However, research shows that actual practice still needs to be improved. Embedding children's participation in legislation and policy documents is one important prerequisite for achieving meaningful participation in child protection practice. In this study, the participation of children in the Dutch CPS under the new Youth Act 2015 is cri…
Balancing between caregiving and professionalism—Women's narratives on fostering a victim of maternal sexual abuse
The impact of sexual abuse on children is enormous, particularly when a child is abused sexually by a mother figure. In order to gain insight into the experiences of this rarely studied group, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected. The narratives were coded inductively, and several topics concerning foster motherhood were studied more in‐depth. Four key themes emerged in the women's narratives:…
Nothing goes as planned”
Matching children with foster carers is an important step in every nonkinship family foster care placement. Although guidelines for matching are provided in several studies, the case‐specific context of the decision can influence the practitioners' ability to adhere to these guidelines. Therefore, this study answers the following question: “How does the case‐specific context influence the practitioners' decision‐making process regarding matching …
Determinants and outcomes of social climate in therapeutic residential youth care
Psychology (38 obras) · Medicine (31 obras) · Developmental psychology (28 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (22 obras) · Social Psychology (20 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (17 obras) · Nursing (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Psychiatry (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras)