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Journal articles on the topic "Deinstitutionalization":

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Black, Bertram J. "Deinstitutionalization." Psychiatric Services 43, no. 10 (October 1992): 1044—a—1044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.10.1044-a.

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Doyle, Rodger. "Deinstitutionalization." Scientific American 287, no. 6 (December 2002): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1202-38.

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Fleck, Stephen. "Deinstitutionalization." Psychiatric Services 39, no. 4 (April 1988): 442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.4.442.

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Hemphill, Barbara, and Pamela Carr Werner. "Deinstitutionalization." Occupational Therapy in Mental Health 10, no. 2 (October 29, 1990): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j004v10n02_06.

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Rinsley, Donald B. "Deinstitutionalization." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 58, no. 2 (April 1988): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1988.tb01593.x.

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Burchard, John D., and William A. Harrington. "Deinstitutionalization:." Child & Family Behavior Therapy 7, no. 4 (May 15, 1986): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j019v07n04_02.

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Elpers, J. R. ""Deinstitutionalization": Reply." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 58, no. 2 (April 1988): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0098629.

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Jones, Jennifer L., and Kami L. Gallus. "Understanding Deinstitutionalization." Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities 41, no. 2 (April 8, 2016): 116–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1540796916637050.

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James, J. Frank, Lois Pokorny, desAnges Eckert, Dick Gregory, and Glen Wallace. "?Program? deinstitutionalization." Administration and Policy in Mental Health 18, no. 6 (July 1991): 447–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00707317.

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Nicholson, Brian, and Sundeep Sahay. "Deinstitutionalization in the Context of Software Exports Policymaking in Costa Rica." Journal of Information Technology 24, no. 4 (December 2009): 332–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2009.18.

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This paper addresses deinstitutionalization from a longitudinal perspective. Drawing on the case of software exports policymaking in Costa Rica, it analyses deinstitutionalization, paying particular attention to formation of dissensus, understood as lack of unanimity on the value of an activity that is sufficient to destabilize institutional norms and activities. The role of cultural and political factors in deinstitutionalization or persistence is considered. Based on the empirical data, a framework for understanding political and cultural dynamics in deinstitutionalization is proposed.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Deinstitutionalization":

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Dargent, Bocanegra Eduardo, and Paula Muñoz. "Democracy against parties? Party system deinstitutionalization in Colombia." Politai, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/92199.

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This article argues that in Colombia, decentralization and electoral reforms adopted in the late 1980s and in the 1991 Constitution – designed to improve democratic quality – brought about a gradual deinstitutionalization of this country’s traditional party system as an unintended consequence. Building upon resource-based theories of party configuration, we contend that in developing countries, where resources are usually crucial for party aggregation, democratizing reforms designed to distribute power and resources in the political system can reduce local candidates’ incentives to join and remain loyal to political parties, particularly when those parties’ reputations are weak. In Colombia, these reforms (i) reduced the power of intermediate-level party leaders over the distribution of selective incentives, making these leaders less important for local politicians, and (ii) gave more political and financial autonomy to local candidates, reducing their need to join parties in order to advance their electoral goals. As a result, party cohesion and discipline become difficult to maintain, and the party system gradually deinstitutionalizes.
Este trabajo argumenta que las reformas descentralizadoras y electorales adoptadas a fines de los años ochenta y en la Constitución de 1991 en Colombia – diseñadas para mejorar la calidad democrática – provocaron, como consecuencia no esperada, una desinstitucionalización gradual del sistema de partidos tradicional de este país. Basándonos en teorías que resaltan el efecto de los recursos sobre la configuración partidaria, argumentamos que en países en vías de desarrollo, donde los recursos suelen ser cruciales para la agregación partidaria, reformas «democratizadoras» diseñadas para distribuir poder y recursos en el sistema político pueden reducir los incentivos de los candidatos locales para unirse y permanecer leales a los partidos políticos, particularmente cuando la reputación de estos últimos es débil. En Colombia, estas reformas(i) redujeron el poder de los líderes de nivel intermedio de los partidos sobre la distribución de incentivos selectivos, lo que los volvió menos importantes para los políticos locales, y (ii) dio más autonomía política y financiera a los candidatos locales, lo cual redujo su necesidad de afiliarse a partidos a fin de alcanzar sus objetivos electorales. Como resultado, la cohesión y disciplina partidaria se hicieron más difíciles de mantener y el sistema de partidos se desinstitucionalizó gradualmente.
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Kofman, Olga Loraine. "Deinstitutionalization and Its Discontents: American Mental Health Policy Reform." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/342.

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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, establishing the beginnings of deinstitutionalization in the United States. By some counts, this Act was a stupendous policy success—by others, a dismal failure. 50 years later, no cohesive national mental health care policy has emerged to deal with increased rates of mental illness among the homeless and the incarcerated. However, California has made enormous strides to create a state policy which provides adequate services to the mildly, moderately, and severely mentally ill as well as adequate funding for those services through Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, passed in 2004. This paper reviews mental health policy history from Colonial America to the present, paying special attention to JFK's deinstitutionalization in 1963 and the discontents that followed. It takes a special look at California's mental health care policy history and the strides the state has made to better serve the mentally ill.
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Alavi, Christine. "The death of the asylum? Deinstitutionalization: Policy and practice." Thesis, Alavi, Christine (1993) The death of the asylum? Deinstitutionalization: Policy and practice. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1993. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51292/.

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The thesis begins by examining the narratives by which the psychiatric institution was sustained and legitimated from the eighteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. It outlines and analyses the discourses which have determined how deinstitutionalization of the long-term mentally ill has been implemented. It investigates deinstitutionalization as a response to the critiques of the asylum in the 1960's and 70's, and evaluates its effects on the lives of the long-term mentally disturbed. It argues that policies based on community care, which were ostensibly aimed at ameliorating the worst aspects of institutionalization, have reproduced those negative aspects in the streets and emergency shelters of the inner cities of North America, Australia and Britain. The Australian experience of developing policies of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization is discussed, looking at recent documents at both state and national levels. Alternative approaches to the dissolution or decentralization of the psychiatric institution are examined, with particular reference to Italy and to innovative projects in both North America and Australia. The thesis concludes by addressing the basic issues in the development and implementation of policies for the care of the long-term mentally disturbed in Australia.
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Nøttestad, Jim Aage. "Deinstitutionalization and mental health changes among people with mental retardation." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Neuroscience, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1952.

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Mendez, Beverlyn G. "Disability Policy Advocates on Strategy, Deinstitutionalization, and Moving from Intermediate Care Facilities." Thesis, University of La Verne, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10623483.

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Purpose. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative case study was to explore the experiences of advocates who represent organizations that engage in disability policy advocacy. The study investigated the strategies and activities used by disability rights advocates, including those used when advocating for deinstitutionalization of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), and the recommendations for advocates of the deinstitutionalization of individuals who live in large intermediate care facilities (ICFs).

Methodology. A phenomenological case study and semistructured interviews were used to explore the strategies and practices of organizations that engage in disability policy advocacy. The researcher used a purposeful sampling approach to interview 5 disability policy advocates with extensive experience for the study. Gen and Wright’s (2013) policy advocacy framework was used to guide the development of the interview questions and resulting themes that emerged from the interviews.

Findings. Advocacy organizations identified three main activities used when advocating for individuals with I/DD: coalition building, information campaigning, and engaging decision makers. When advocating for the deinstitutionalization of people with I/DD, their strategies included coalition building, information campaigning, and reform efforts. The advocates consistently recommended reform efforts, and to a lesser extent, coalition building as strategies and activities to expedite the deinstitutionalization of individuals who reside in large ICFs.

Conclusion. Reform efforts (pilots, demonstrations, litigation) are consistently recommended for future advocacy efforts in support of expediting the community transition of individuals who reside in large ICFs.

Recommendations. Future research should explore the activities of advocacy organizations for other populations or in other geographies. This research study has direct implications for individuals who reside in large ICFs and want to move to community living. This study adds to the practice of advocacy in that it will aid the development of future advocates through training targeting practices of successful, highly experienced advocates.

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Sears, Alan Carleton University Dissertation Anthropology. "Mental health, the state and labour-power; deinstitutionalization in Ontario 1959-1965." Ottawa, 1985.

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D'Antonio, Pamela L. "Deinstitutionalization and its implications on mental health emergency services in Berks County." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1993. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2937. Abstract precedes thesis title page as [2] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).
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Tuntiya, Nana. "The Forgotten History: The Deinstitutionalization Movement in the Mental Health Care System in the United States." [Tampa, Fla. : s.n.], 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000112.

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Thorpe, Andrea. "Antecedents, mechanisms and processes of deinstitutionalization and institutional change : a case study approach to understanding enterprise under duress." Thesis, Aston University, 2014. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/22441/.

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Adopting a grounded theory methodology, the study describes how an event and pressure impact upon a process of deinstitutionalization and institutional change. Three case studies were theoretically sampled in relation to each other. They yielded mainly qualitative data from methods that included interviews, observations, participant observations, and document reviews. Each case consisted of a boundaried cluster of small enterprises that were not industry specific and were geographically dispersed. Overall findings describe how an event, i.e. a stimulus, causes disruption, which in turn may cause pressure. Pressure is then translated as a tension within the institutional environment, which is characterized by opposing forces that encourage institutional breakdown and institutional maintenance. Several contributions are made: Deinstitutionalization as a process is inextricable from the formation of institutions – both are needed to make sense of institutional change on a conceptual level but are also inseparable experientially in the field; stimuli are conceptually different to pressures; the historical basis of a stimulus may impact on whether pressure and institutional change occurs; pressure exists in a more dynamic capacity rather than only as a catalyst; institutional breakdown is a non-linear irregular process; ethical and survival pressures as new types were identified; institutional current, as an underpinning mechanism, influences how the tension between institutional breakdown and maintenance plays out.
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Räsänen, S. (Sami). "Gender differences in schizophrenia observations from Northern Finland." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2000. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514256557.

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Abstract Using three different schizophrenic populations from Northern Finland, gender differences in some sociodemographic variables, age at onset, incidence, treatment, outcome and deinstitutionalization of schizophrenia were examined. The first study population comprises the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort, which is an unselected, general population birth cohort. We followed prospectively 11017 subjects from 16 to 28 years of age by means of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register. From this study population gender differences at the age of onset and incidence of schizophrenia were calculated. The second study population was formed of 1525 patients who had their first treatment episodes at the closed therapeutic community ward situated at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu during 1977 - 1993. Gender differences were assessed in relation to age at first admission, some sociodemographic variables, degree of active participation of the patients in individual, group, and milieu therapy and institutional outcome of the patients with schizophrenia. The third study population consisted of all the 253 long-stay psychiatric inpatients treated for at least six months without a break during 1992 in the Department of Psychiatry, Oulu University Hospital. From this study population gender differences at the age of onset and in relation to some sociodemographic and clinical variables were studied. The placements after the last discharge and at the end of the follow-up and factors predicting hospitalization after the follow-up were also monitored. There were no statistically significant gender differences regarding age at onset in any of these three different study populations. The time lag between the first psychotic symptoms and the first psychiatric hospitalization was minimal. In the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort study the annual incidence rate of DSM-III-R schizophrenia was relatively high, 7.9 per 10 000 in men and 4.4 in women by the age of 28. In men it was highest in the age group of the 20-24 year-olds while in women the peak occurred earlier in the age group of the 16-19 year-olds. In the Therapeutic community study there were no statistically significant gender differences in the sociodemographic variables, in the length of stay and in the number of treatment episodes in this ward in any of the diagnostic groups. Differences with regard to male and female participation in individual, group and milieu therapy and the institutional outcome were minimal, some trends, however, favoring females. In the long-stay patients study almost two-thirds of these patients were men. Very few gender differences were found in relation to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics or regarding the utilization of psychiatric hospital care. About 70% of the long-stay patients were discharged during the four year follow-up period and only 15% were able to live without continuous support. Marital status (being not married), dwelling place (living in city), absence of negative symptoms and severity of the illness were associated with hospitalization at the end of the follow-up. Gender did not predict hospitalization at the end of the follow-up period. The results of this study indicate that there are probably different subgroups of schizophrenia in which there are no gender differences regarding age at onset and in the clinical picture of the disturbance or there are regional differences in the manifestation of the illness. In Finland patients are hospitalized earlier after the onset of the first psychotic symptoms than in many other countries. According to the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort study the incidence of schizophrenia is higher among young men than women and the total life-time incidence of schizophrenia may be smaller in women. The results from the Therapeutic community study suggest that therapeutic community treatment may level out the gender differences in the treatment process and outcome. The long-stay patient study showed that long-term patients are dependent on considerable support and that the most seriously ill patients are in fact in hospital. Alternative residential facilities have been a presupposition to the deinstitutionalization of the long-stay patients.
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Books on the topic "Deinstitutionalization":

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Braddock, David L. Deinstitutionalization in the eighties: 1985 Public Forum on Deinstitutionalization : remarks. [Chicago, Ill.]: University of Chicago, Evaluation & Public Policy Program, Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, 1985.

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Mansell, Jim, and Kent Ericsson, eds. Deinstitutionalization and Community Living. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4.

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Rule, Alix. Standpoints on Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization. [New York, N.Y.?]: [publisher not identified], 2018.

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1929-, Lamb H. Richard, and Weinberger Linda E, eds. Deinstitutionalization: Promise and problems. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

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Institute, G. Allan Roeher, ed. Deinstitutionalization in Canada: An annotated bibliography. Downsview,Ont: Roeher Institute, 1990.

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Johnson, Ann Braden. Out of bedlam: The truth about deinstitutionalization. [New York, N.Y.]: Basic Books, 1990.

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Chiaramonte, Alessandro, and Vincenzo Emanuele. The Deinstitutionalization of Western European Party Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97978-2.

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Dear, M. J. Landscapes of despair: From deinstitutionalization to homelessness. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1987.

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Dear, M. J. Landscapes of despair: From deinstitutionalization to homelessness. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987.

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Institute, Roeher, ed. Toward inclusion: National evaluation of deinstitutionalization initiatives. Toronto: Institut Roeher Institute, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Deinstitutionalization":

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Richardson, Scott. "Deinstitutionalization, Now!" In Gender Lessons, 181–94. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-031-4_6.

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Marquant, Thomas, and Francisco Torres-Gonzalez. "Deinstitutionalization Versus Transinstitutionalization." In Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology in Europe, 293–304. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74664-7_19.

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Ericsson, Kent, and Jim Mansell. "Introduction: towards deinstitutionalization." In Deinstitutionalization and Community Living, 1–16. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4_1.

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Claassen, Dirk, and Stefan Priebe. "Ethics of Deinstitutionalization." In Ethics in Psychiatry, 341–61. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8721-8_21.

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Chiaramonte, Alessandro, and Vincenzo Emanuele. "Explaining Party System Deinstitutionalization." In The Deinstitutionalization of Western European Party Systems, 155–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97978-2_7.

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Conroy, James. "Results of deinstitutionalization in Connecticut." In Deinstitutionalization and Community Living, 149–68. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4_10.

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Emerson, Eric, and Chris Hatton. "Impact of deinstitutionalization on service users in Britain." In Deinstitutionalization and Community Living, 169–84. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4_11.

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Sandvin, Johans. "The transition to community services in Norway." In Deinstitutionalization and Community Living, 185–96. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4_12.

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Tuvesson, Barbro, and Kent Ericsson. "Relatives’ opinions on institutional closure." In Deinstitutionalization and Community Living, 199–208. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4_13.

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Tøssebro, Jan. "Family attitudes to deinstitutionalization in Norway." In Deinstitutionalization and Community Living, 209–23. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4517-4_14.

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Conference papers on the topic "Deinstitutionalization":

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Ananieva, Ana. "DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION - AIMS AND PRACTICE OF A EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE." In THE LAW AND THE BUSINESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 2020. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/lbcs2020.278.

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In 2010, in response to a UN recommendation and a European directive, the Council of Ministers adopted a Vision for deinstitutionalization in Bulgaria. The aim was to gradually close the mass social homes, to take the children out of them and to place them in foster families or children's centres (not more than 12), that means much closer to a family environment. The fam-ily came to the fore in the system of "triple protection" of children: from the family, from the state and from society. But the practice also outlined a new set of problems: for the preparation of foster parents, for the control over a large number of places for accommodation, for the psy-chological impact on the children raised by "transitory parents", etc.
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Carriera, Lucia, Chiara Carla Montà, and Daniela Bianchi. "THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON RESIDENTIAL CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: A CALL FOR FAMILY-BASED APPROACH IN ALTERNATIVE CARE." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end126.

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Children’s rights and needs are at the center of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, where education is viewed as crucial for providing the opportunities for sustainable, peaceful and equitable coexistence in a changing world. Alternative care settings are educational contexts (Tibollo, 2015) that deal with children in vulnerable conditions (UN General Assembly, 2010). For this reason, they can be considered as a sort of “field test” or “magnifying glass” on how the progress in striving to the implementation of the goals is proceeding – no one must be left behind. The 2020 global pandemic provoked an external shock to current socio-economic dimensions of sustainability. Education has been one of the most struck systems – let’s think of the 1,6 billion learners that have been affected by school closures (UNESCO, 2020). With this global framework in mind, the contribution aims at offering a pedagogical reflection on the impact the Covid-19 pandemic is having on children living in residential care centers (RCC). Worldwide, many RCCs, following the ongoing global pandemic, have been closed with the consequent return of children to their families of origin (CRIN, 2020). This process of deinstitutionalization, however, has not been overseen by rigorous monitoring, leading to increased risks of violence for children. This urges authorities to take carefully planned measures with respect to deinstitutionalisation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (Goldman, et al., 2020). But Covid-19 is not only a health risk for children in RCCs. Because of the complex impact that the pandemic has had on the lives of children, on one side care responses are required, and on the other psycho-social and educational ones are also crucial (SOS Villaggi dei Bambini Onlus Italy; Save The Children, 2020). In Italy, for example, special guidelines have been drawn up to mitigate the spread of the virus within residential structures, that sometimes are overcrowded (Istituto superiore di sanità; SOS Villaggi dei Bambini Onlus Italia, 2020). In addition, tools have been provided to support the mental health of the children and adolescents that are deprived of opportunities for socialization given the closure of schools. In some cases they are isolated within the services themselves to mitigate the risk of the spread, causing a limitation in the possibility of seeing people outside the institution as their parents. Covid-19 underlines the urgency of promoting family-based alternative care for children. In particular, this paper aims to read through a pedagogical lens, the European scenario of residential services for children, to explore the impact of Covid-19 in these services; and to promote a family-based approach in alternative care preventing the risk of institutionalization in children welcomed.

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