9 Stability in residential out-of-home care in Australia: how can we understand it?

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures and tables ix
4. Notes on contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Foreword xvi
7. Introduction: Moving towards the edge 1
8. Groups of care-leavers living on the edge
9. Unaccompanied migrant youth leaving care in Spain: how their journeys differ from those of other care-leavers 13
10. ‘The question is: will the street leave us?’ Care-leavers with a street-connected past 35
11. Care-leavers’ reflections on resilience processes acquired while living on the street prior to coming into residential care in South Africa 53
12. LGBTQIA+ foster-care-leavers: creating equitable and affirming systems of care 71
13. Methods of care-leaving research
14. Institutional ethnography: linking the individual and the institutional in care-leaving research 93
15. Methodological issues when interviewing disabled care-leavers: lessons learned from South Africa, Norway and Northern Ireland 111
16. Trauma-informed research with young people transitioning from care: balancing methodological rigour with participatory and empowering practice 129
17. Care foundations: making care central in research with care-experienced people 148
18. Theory and conceptualisation of leaving care
19. Stability in residential out-of-home care in Australia: how can we understand it? 169
20. Living an unstable life: exploring facets of instability in the lives of care-leavers in Denmark 188
21. Understanding the risk of suicide among care-leavers: the potential contribution of theories 204
22. Getting by and getting ahead in Australia: a conceptual approach to examining the individual impact of informal social capital on care-leaver transitions 223
23. Conclusion: Going over the edge 243
24. Index 254