How professionals in Swiss foster care deal with religiosity

van Oordt, Noëmi

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dc.contributor.author	van Oordt, Noëmi	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-12T15:04:18Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-11-12T15:04:18Z	-
dc.date.issued	2023-09-14	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29071	-
dc.description	Presentation within the Invited Symposium "Youth Care in Religious Diverse Societies".	de_CH
dc.description.abstract	For children who cannot grow up with their biological parents, Switzerland, like many other countries, offers the possibility of placement in a state-approved foster family. Foster care professionals from various organizations are responsible for recruiting, assigning, and supervising foster families. The study shows that while foster children come from families with different religious backgrounds and practices, Christian religiosity is widespread among foster families – especially among non-relative foster families. On the one hand, Swiss law stipulates that religious upbringing until the age of 16 is always the responsibility of the parents of origin (Art. 303 ZGB; Gassner 2018). On the other hand, studies state that a trans-religious placement can be accompanied by additional challenges for the children (Werner 2019) or various dilemmas (van Bergen et al. 2022). This additional task is a source of inequality, since it does not have to be performed by foster children who are placed within their religious community or in a foster family with very similar religious practices to those of the family of origin. In my dissertation, I study, how professionals in foster care deal with religiosity in foster families. Following the grounded theory methodology and using a sequence-analytical approach, I work with data collected in the research project "Images of the foster family and their effect on the cooperation processes in foster care", which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The research is based on nine group discussions with a total of 47 foster care professionals from German and French-speaking Switzerland. In answering open questions about images of the foster family, religion emerged as an important but also sensitive issue in the professionals’ responses. The results so far show that: • Evangelicalism plays an important role in Swiss foster care system. • On a theoretical level, rules for dealing with religiosity are formulated. • In practice, there is no standard procedure, • professionals show a various avoidance policy regarding the enforcement of these rules, and • responsibility for trans-religious placements is delegated to parents of origin or foster children, who may be poorly informed and involved or have simply no choice. This veiling of handling religiosity by professionals leads to social injustice for the most vulnerable actors in foster care: foster children and their parents of origin. Introducing these results may initiate a discussion that will further sharpen the view and yield new insight into dealing with religiosity in social work in and outside of foster care.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.rights	Not specified	de_CH
dc.subject	Foster care	de_CH
dc.subject	Religion	de_CH
dc.subject	Professional	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	200: Religion	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	362.7: Jugendhilfe	de_CH
dc.title	How professionals in Swiss foster care deal with religiosity	de_CH
dc.type	Konferenz: Sonstiges	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	Soziale Arbeit	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Institut für Kindheit, Jugend und Familie (IKJF)	de_CH
zhaw.conference.details	17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023	de_CH
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	Yes	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	publishedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.publication.review	Peer review (Abstract)	de_CH
zhaw.funding.snf	192715	de_CH
zhaw.webfeed	Kinder- und Jugendhilfe	de_CH
zhaw.funding.zhaw	Bilder der Pflegefamilie und ihre Wirkung auf Kooperationsprozesse in der Pflegekinderhilfe	de_CH
zhaw.author.additional	No	de_CH
zhaw.display.portrait	Yes	de_CH
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van Oordt, N. (2023, September 14). How professionals in Swiss foster care deal with religiosity. 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023.

van Oordt, N. (2023) ‘How professionals in Swiss foster care deal with religiosity’, in 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023.

N. van Oordt, “How professionals in Swiss foster care deal with religiosity,” in 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023, Sep. 2023.

VAN OORDT, Noëmi, 2023. How professionals in Swiss foster care deal with religiosity. In: 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023. Conference presentation. 14 September 2023

van Oordt, Noëmi. 2023. “How Professionals in Swiss Foster Care Deal with Religiosity.” Conference presentation. In 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023.

van Oordt, Noëmi. “How Professionals in Swiss Foster Care Deal with Religiosity.” 17th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-15 September 2023, 2023.