Projects
Attachment-focused Online Support: Stimulating Youth Resilience using Online Prevention of Attachment Ruptures in Families KU Leuven
Revealing the freedom of movement and capacity to aspire of youngsters in residential youth care: Towards a socio-spatial citizenship climate Ghent University
To improve the inclusion and citizenship of vulnerable youngsters in residential youth care in society, recent research focuses on the development of a positive living group climate. Key scientific and theoretical knowledge gaps are identified in existing research on this research topic: (1) interpersonal rather than socio-spatial relations, and (2) treatment motivation rather than youngsters capacity to aspire are bolstered. Theoretically ...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and daily-life social processes of youth, and the role of socio-economic deprivation KU Leuven
Crucial social-developmental processes in youth are impacted by COVID-19 lockdown measures, threatening mental health and well-being. We investigate the short- and longer-term impact of the pandemic upon youth’s social processes, mental health and well-being by collecting real-time data from a pre-existing adolescent cohort and by establishing a new longitudinal cohort of youth experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage. We aim to create novel ...
Prevent radicalization among youth. KU Leuven
The Extremely EUnited project aims to reach out to vulnerable youth by creating an innovative online platform that
will offer a space where the voice of young people will be heard, challenge the radical propaganda, provide youth with
alternatives, develop their resilience and critical thinking mechanisms. The online platform will act as a multilingual
hub to disseminate the media contents that will be created in the project ...
Performing culture in youth courts: An active ethnography of narrative negotiations Ghent University
The project explores the ways in which the notion ‘culture’ is mobilised in youth courts. This
institutional context is underpinned by "it's for your own good" ideals, entailing a constant
balancing between protecting and punishing young people. Professionals also need to take into
account youth's overall background. Previous research has shown that 'mundane' understandings
of ‘culture' influence these assessments and ...
Client records in youth care: between dream and reality KU Leuven
During the last decades various societal evolutions have led to an increased demand for accountability in social work, and youth care more specifically. With the creation of numerous ICT, electronic client records were regularly seen as a means to comply with this growing demand. Through electronic client records social workers could be supported in practice, relevant information could be gathered for policy and data could be collected on ...
Under pressure. Impact within a non-ideal situation. Stories from youth care. VIVES
Youth TikTok production as public pedagogy towards liveable climate futures KU Leuven
This youth-focused project will undertake both an analysis of youth social media productions (via the digital platform, TikTok), as well as a survey and interviews with youth in both Australia and Europe on their experiences and intentions regarding TikTok as a form of critical public pedagogy on climate change. The project will explore key narratives, anticipated audiences, and other aspects of whether and how youth intend for their TikTok ...
EF 64 - Guideline on seclusion and fixation-wide youth assistance KU Leuven
EF63 - Development of an intersectoral guideline for the prevention and application of isolation and restraint in integral youth care, forensic youth care and mental health care for children and young people (furthermore the broad youth care)