IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/cysrev/v150y2023ics0190740923002074.html

Care professionals’ perspectives and roles on resilience among LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care: A multidimensional perspective

Author

Listed:
  • González Álvarez, Rodrigo
  • Hofman, Sterre
  • ten Brummelaar, Mijntje
  • López López, Mónica

Abstract

There is a dearth of scientific evidence on the lives of LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care, particularly about their experiences of resilience. Moreover, no studies until now have inquired about the perspective of their care professionals on LGBTQIA+ young people’s resilience resources. The purpose of this study was to explore the care professionals’ perspectives and roles in resilience among LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care. We carried out 21 in-depth interviews with care professionals with experience working with LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care. Results showed that: 1) some professionals conceived resilience as the result of the youth’s traits, particularly their strength and their LGBTQIA+ pride; 2) most professionals mentioned the relevance of conversations with youth as a way to achieve their SOGIESC affirmation; 3) professionals stressed the importance of supportive and affirmative relationships between youth and professionals; 4) although some professionals were unsure about the relevance of care agencies’ SOGIESC specific practices and policies to help youth confront their adversities, other professionals stressed its importance to increase the wellbeing and resilience of LGBTQIA+ youth. The results of this study highlight the significant role of care professionals to foster the resilience of LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care.

Suggested Citation

  • González Álvarez, Rodrigo & Hofman, Sterre & ten Brummelaar, Mijntje & López López, Mónica, 2023. "Care professionals’ perspectives and roles on resilience among LGBTQIA+ youth in out-of-home care: A multidimensional perspective," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:150:y:2023:i:c:s0190740923002074
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107012
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740923002074
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107012?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Wilson, Bianca D.M. & Kastanis, Angeliki A., 2015. "Sexual and gender minority disproportionality and disparities in child welfare: A population-based study," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 11-17.
    2. Angie Hart & Emily Gagnon & Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse & Josh Cameron & Kay Aranda & Anne Rathbone & Becky Heaver, 2016. "Uniting Resilience Research and Practice With an Inequalities Approach," SAGE Open, , vol. 6(4), pages 21582440166, December.
    3. Coolhart, Deborah & Brown, Maria T., 2017. "The need for safe spaces: Exploring the experiences of homeless LGBTQ youth in shelters," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 230-238.
    4. Paul, June C., 2020. "Exploring support for LGBTQ youth transitioning from foster care to emerging adulthood," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    5. DiFulvio, Gloria T., 2011. "Sexual minority youth, social connection and resilience: From personal struggle to collective identity," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 72(10), pages 1611-1617, May.
    6. Bell, Tessa & Romano, Elisa, 2015. "Child resilience in out-of-home care: Child welfare worker perspectives," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 49-59.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. López López, Mónica & Martínez-Jothar, Gabriela & ten Brummelaar, Mijntje D.C. & Parra, Luis A. & San Román Sobrino, Beatriz & Mallon, Gerald P., 2024. "“They told me that you can be with whomever you want, be who you are”: Perceptions of LGBTQ+ youth in residential care regarding the social support provided by child welfare professionals," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    2. López, Mónica López & Parra, Luis Armando & O’Brien, Rory Patrick & Brummelaar, Mijntje ten & Villar, Mireia Foradada & Martínez-Jothar, Gabriela, 2025. "Exploring microaggressions among LGBTQIA+ youth in the child welfare system," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. López López, Mónica & Martínez-Jothar, Gabriela & ten Brummelaar, Mijntje D.C. & Parra, Luis A. & San Román Sobrino, Beatriz & Mallon, Gerald P., 2024. "“They told me that you can be with whomever you want, be who you are”: Perceptions of LGBTQ+ youth in residential care regarding the social support provided by child welfare professionals," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    2. Schaub, Jason & Stander, Willem J. & Montgomery, Paul, 2022. "LGBTQ+ Young People’s Health and Well-being Experiences in Out-of-home Social Care: A scoping review," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    3. López, Mónica López & Parra, Luis Armando & O’Brien, Rory Patrick & Brummelaar, Mijntje ten & Villar, Mireia Foradada & Martínez-Jothar, Gabriela, 2025. "Exploring microaggressions among LGBTQIA+ youth in the child welfare system," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
    4. Linda Theron & Motlalepule Ruth Mampane & Liesel Ebersöhn & Angie Hart, 2020. "Youth Resilience to Drought: Learning from a Group of South African Adolescents," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-14, October.
    5. Prince, Dana M. & Ray-Novak, Meagan & Tossone, Krystel & Peterson, Emily & Gillani, Braveheart & Mintz, Laura, 2024. "Psychological comorbidities and suicidality in sexual and gender minority foster youth," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).
    6. Francisco Perales, 2016. "The Costs of Being “Different”: Sexual Identity and Subjective Wellbeing over the Life Course," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 127(2), pages 827-849, June.
    7. Mountz, Sarah & Capous-Desyllas, Moshoula, 2020. "Exploring the families of origin of LGBTQ former foster youth and their trajectories throughout care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    8. Atteberry-Ash, Brittanie & Kattari, Shanna K. & Speer, Stephanie Rachel & Guz, Samantha & Kattari, Leo, 2019. "School safety experiences of high school youth across sexual orientation and gender identity," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 1-1.
    9. Sulimani-Aidan, Yafit & Shilo, Guy & Paul, June C., 2024. "Increasing resilience among LGBTQ youth: The protective role of natural mentors," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
    10. Mäder, Sarah J. & Thoma, Myriam V. & Salas Castillo, Aileen N. & Dorigo, Melanie & Rohner, Shauna L., 2024. "Intra- and interpersonal influences on child adjustment and resilience in welfare care: A qualitative study with former caregivers in Switzerland," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    11. Rice, Jessica L. & Tan, Tony Xing & Li, Yanzheng, 2021. "In their voices: Experiences of adolescents during involuntary psychiatric hospitalization," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    12. Noble-Carr, Debbie & Barker, Justin & McArthur, Morag & Woodman, Elise, 2014. "Improving practice: The importance of connections in establishing positive identity and meaning in the lives of vulnerable young people," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 47(P3), pages 389-396.
    13. Austin, Ashley & Craig, Shelley L. & Matarese, Marlene & Greeno, Elizabeth J. & Weeks, Angela & Betsinger, S. Aaron, 2021. "Preliminary effectiveness of an LGBTQ+ affirmative parenting intervention with foster parents," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    14. Zeev Hille & Hannes Ulrich & Vera Maren Straßburger & Pichit Buspavanich, 2024. "Social networks of men who have sex with men engaging in chemsex in Germany: differences in social resources and sexual health," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-13, December.
    15. Salerno, John P. & Kachingwe, Olivia N. & Fish, Jessica N. & Parekh, Eshana & Geddings-Hayes, Melanie & Boekeloo, Bradley O. & Aparicio, Elizabeth M., 2020. "“Even if you think you can trust them, don’t trust them”: An exploratory analysis of the lived experiences of sexual health among sexual minority girls in foster care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    16. Cruce, Amanda, 2024. "Legal protections for sexual and gender minority youth in foster care: A review of Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (Normalcy Standards)," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
    17. Elena Tubertini & Agostino Carbone & Massimo Santinello, 2023. "Staff Members’ Experience of Italian Shelters for LGBTQIA+ Homeless and Runaway People: An Exploratory Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(13), pages 1-15, June.
    18. Koren, Ido & Nadan, Yochay, 2025. "“All you want to do is to run away from this nightmare”: Adolescent sexual and gender minority runaways in Israel’s periphery," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    19. Ramseyer Winter, Virginia & Brandon-Friedman, Richard A. & Ely, Gretchen E., 2016. "Sexual health behaviors and outcomes among current and former foster youth: A review of the literature," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 1-14.
    20. Côté, Philippe-Benoit & Blais, Martin, 2019. "Between resignation, resistance and recognition: A qualitative analysis of LGBTQ+ youth profiles of homelessness agencies utilization," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 437-443.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:150:y:2023:i:c:s0190740923002074. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/childyouth .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.