What Are We to Each Other
Relational Participation as Processes of Positioning, Confirming and Manifesting Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mona Kragelund Ravn (0009-0002-2102-3212, Aalborg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 177 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci14030177 |
| OpenAlex | W4408450358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
It is generally recognized in research that participation is lacking in social work and is essential to improve. This article presents findings from qualitative focus group interviews with children and parents in Denmark with supervised contact (SC) after placement focusing on what participation is for them. Since SC is a context embedded in conflicting perspectives, enabling a sense of participation can be challenging, making SC an interesting case for exploration. The findings show that for both children and parents, participation is about emotionally engaging in, finding, confirming and manifesting their positioning in the relationship, which goes beyond a traditional rights-based understanding. Based on the new empirical knowledge and anchored in the metatheory of agential realism, the article argues for participation as a relational, dynamic and transcendental concept that revolves around three empirical key aspects: positioning, confirming and manifesting, entangled in children's and parents' experiences, emotions and thoughts about 'what are we to each other?'. Children and parents express orientation towards entering relationships, even though these are challenging. Thus, a major point is the need for further research into the relational and emotional processes of participation with awareness of the importance of the specific relationship
Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Empirical research · Epistemology · Flourishing · Focus group · Metatheory · Sociology · Transcendental number · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Child Protection Systems
Focus Group Methodology
Thematic Analysis
The What, Why and How of Child Participation—A Review of the Conceptualization of “Child Participation” in Child Welfare
Behavioral Observation and Analysis of Participants in Foster Care Visits
KContact, an enhanced intervention for contact between children in out-of-home care and their parents
Interventions to improve supervised contact visits between children in out of home care and their parents
Children’s Participation in Child Welfare
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents
Child protection social workers' constructions of children and childhood
Children expressing their views in child protection casework
Looked after children's right to contact with birth parents
Service user participation in diverse child protection contexts
Diffracting Diffraction
The ‘What Of’ and the ‘What If’ of Agential Realism – In Search of the Gendered Subject
Something Amazing I Guess”
Parents’ supervised contact visits with their children in care
Participation in decision-making in out-of-home care in Australia
Voice’ is not enough
Researching Social Work Practice Close Up
Co-Design with People with Lived Experience
A Ladder Of Citizen Participation
Going beyond dichotomous political discourses about children’s participation and voice
Pathways to participation
On Touching-the Inhuman That Therefore I Am
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |