Psychosocial Support Interventions for Foster Families in SOS Children's Villages South Africa

Part 1 Trauma: the rights of the child and the state of the world's children children and youth in the spotlight - SOS children's villages - providing for children in need what is psychological trauma? methods of treatment. Part 2 Separation: ..and I didn't even know I was anymore - children of divorce if I could become anyone else in the world - traumatization through separation and loss coping with grief after separation and loss - a case study separation as trauma, relationship as therapy. Part 3 Sexual abuse: child sexual abuse - challenges facing child protection and mental health professionals early crisis - on dealing with sexually abused children and adolescents at SOS children's village facilities in Germany sexual abuse in the family - a case study child prostitution and sexual abuse in Latin America, with a special look at Paraguay. Part 4 War: children in war - experiences from Croatia the work of SOS children's villages in Rwanda SOS children's villages in the Bosnia-Herzegovina war zone who killed her? SOS children's villages in Lebanon during the war. Part 5 Professional helpers: the importance of professional helpers' mental health training - continuing education - reflection on practice.

This review paper examines the sociological development of orphaned children residing at the SOS Children's Village in Dhangadhi, Nepal. The study aims to explore how the unique environment provided by SOS Children's Village influences various aspects of sociological development,including social interactions, emotional stability, and educational progress. Using a qualitative case study approach, this paper analyses data collected through interviews, observations, and historical records from SOS Children's Village, Dhangadhi. Analytical methods include thematic analysis to identify key patterns and trends relevant to the sociological development of the children. The findings reveal significant positive outcomes in areas such as social skills development, emotional resilience, and educational attainment among the children compared to traditional orphanage settings. The structured support system at SOS Children’s Village has contributed to these improved outcomes. The results underscore the critical impact of care environment structures on the sociological development of orphaned children. This study contributes to child development theories by highlighting the potential of specialized care facilities to mitigate the adverse effects of early childhood orphan hood. Recommendations for child welfare practices are discussed to enhance developmental support in similar settings.

SOS Children's Villages is one of foster care that has family care concept. Self-acceptance can be built through the functioning of the family. One of the success factors of adolescents who stay in foster care is the extent of adolescence can accept his/her condition. This study purpose to investigate empirically the relationship between the foster family functioning and self-acceptance of adolescence in SOS Children's Villages Banda Aceh. The sampling technique used in this research is purposive sampling. These samples included 31 adolescence consisting were male whose age ranged between 15-17 years and female 15-21 years who live in SOS Children's Villages Banda Aceh. The following instruments were used are Family Assessment Device by Ryan et al., and Self-Acceptance Scale which constructed based on Berger theory. The results of data analysis using Pearson correlation technique showed a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.456 and p = 0.010 (p <0.05). It means there is a positive correlation between family functioning and self-acceptance of adolescence in SOS Children's Villages Banda Aceh. The more effective of family functioning, the higher level of self acceptance or otherwise.

Longitudinal research, Child Rights Situation Analysis, 2014 shows that out of the identifiable groups in the society, young persons who have been in alternative care because of the loss of care of their biological families are more likely to experience deprived outcomes in life once leaving care. Incidents of financial problems, health issues, safety concerns, drug & alcohol misuse and depression are much higher among this youth group. Care leavers with basic education, without proper family & social support and employable life skills are at the higher risk. SOS Children's Villages, Sri Lanka has realised the significance and the need to prepare youth for leaving care which is the crucial ingredient of a successful alterative care system. A percentage of 65 young persons, who were systematically integrated to the society after being in SOS care, are satisfied with the process of integration, where 85% stated that the education that is formal, informal and non-formal received is sufficient to find a better employment. Young persons who received vocational training had more advantage in initiating successful self-employments than others (SOS Children's Villages Sri Lanka, 2011). Further, the family roots esteemed in SOS concept have given young person's confidence to associate with society as a normal person as they have a mother, brothers and sisters and a home of their own. However, imparities in law and implications in education system create discrimination for young person's coming from alternative care (SOS Children's Villages Sri Lanka, 2014), and the complications of biological and psychosocial factors of young persons create scenarios where the individualised process of integration is required. Furnishing young person's with employable skills, proving a family environment to grow and effective process on integration to society with psychosocial support will provide young persons the empowerment to become independent and live a productive life after care.

This study aims to analyze the role of caregivers in carrying out family functions at the SOS Children's Villages Medan Institution. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The subjects in this study were 7 people consisting of 1 manager of the SOS Children's Villages Medan Institution, and 6 caregivers. Data collection used interview, observation and documentation techniques. Data analysis techniques used data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. Data validity used source triangulation and method triangulation. The results of the study showed that the application of family functions carried out by caregivers to foster children was based on the following functions: (1) religious function, (2) socio-cultural function, (3) function of love, (4) protection function, (5) reproductive function, (6) socialization and education function, (7) economic function, and (8) environmental development function. The role of caregivers in implementing family functions includes the role of parents, teacher, role models, educators, motivators, supervisors, advisors and managers. Keywords : Caregivers, Foster Children, Family Function, SOS Children’s Villages

Hospitals, clinics, and health organizations have provided psychosocial support interventions for medical patients to supplement curative care. Prior reviews of interventions augmenting psychosocial support in medical settings have reported mixed outcomes. This meta-analysis addresses the questions of how effective are psychosocial support interventions in improving patient survival and which potential moderating features are associated with greater effectiveness. We evaluated randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of psychosocial support interventions in inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings reporting survival data, including studies reporting disease-related or all-cause mortality. Literature searches included studies reported January 1980 through October 2020 accessed from Embase, Medline, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Alt HealthWatch, PsycINFO, Social Work Abstracts, and Google Scholar databases. At least 2 reviewers screened studies, extracted data, and assessed study quality, with at least 2 independent reviewers also extracting data and assessing study quality. Odds ratio (OR) and hazard ratio (HR) data were analyzed separately using random effects weighted models. Of 42,054 studies searched, 106 RCTs including 40,280 patients met inclusion criteria. Patient average age was 57.2 years, with 52% females and 48% males; 42% had cardiovascular disease (CVD), 36% had cancer, and 22% had other conditions. Across 87 RCTs reporting data for discrete time periods, the average was OR = 1.20 (95% CI = 1.09 to 1.31, p < 0.001), indicating a 20% increased likelihood of survival among patients receiving psychosocial support compared to control groups receiving standard medical care. Among those studies, psychosocial interventions explicitly promoting health behaviors yielded improved likelihood of survival, whereas interventions without that primary focus did not. Across 22 RCTs reporting survival time, the average was HR = 1.29 (95% CI = 1.12 to 1.49, p < 0.001), indicating a 29% increased probability of survival over time among intervention recipients compared to controls. Among those studies, meta-regressions identified 3 moderating variables: control group type, patient disease severity, and risk of research bias. Studies in which control groups received health information/classes in addition to treatment as usual (TAU) averaged weaker effects than those in which control groups received only TAU. Studies with patients having relatively greater disease severity tended to yield smaller gains in survival time relative to control groups. In one of 3 analyses, studies with higher risk of research bias tended to report better outcomes. The main limitation of the data is that interventions very rarely blinded personnel and participants to study arm, such that expectations for improvement were not controlled. In this meta-analysis, OR data indicated that psychosocial behavioral support interventions promoting patient motivation/coping to engage in health behaviors improved patient survival, but interventions focusing primarily on patients' social or emotional outcomes did not prolong life. HR data indicated that psychosocial interventions, predominantly focused on social or emotional outcomes, improved survival but yielded similar effects to health information/classes and were less effective among patients with apparently greater disease severity. Risk of research bias remains a plausible threat to data interpretation.

BackgroundHospitals, clinics, and health organizations have provided psychosocial support interventions for medical patients to supplement curative care. Prior reviews of interventions augmenting psychosocial support in medical settings have reported mixed outcomes. This meta-analysis addresses the questions of how effective are psychosocial support interventions in improving patient survival and which potential moderating features are associated with greater effectiveness.Methods and findingsWe evaluated randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of psychosocial support interventions in inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings reporting survival data, including studies reporting disease-related or all-cause mortality. Literature searches included studies reported January 1980 through October 2020 accessed from Embase, Medline, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Alt HealthWatch, PsycINFO, Social Work s, and Google Scholar databases. At least 2 reviewers screened studies, extracted data, and assessed study quality, with at least 2 independent reviewers also extracting data and assessing study quality. Odds ratio (OR) and hazard ratio (HR) data were analyzed separately using random effects weighted models. Of 42,054 studies searched, 106 RCTs including 40,280 patients met inclusion criteria. Patient average age was 57.2 years, with 52% females and 48% males; 42% had cardiovascular disease (CVD), 36% had cancer, and 22% had other conditions. Across 87 RCTs reporting data for discrete time periods, the average was OR = 1.20 (95% CI = 1.09 to 1.31, p < 0.001), indicating a 20% increased likelihood of survival among patients receiving psychosocial support compared to control groups receiving standard medical care. Among those studies, psychosocial interventions explicitly promoting health behaviors yielded improved likelihood of survival, whereas interventions without that primary focus did not. Across 22 RCTs reporting survival time, the average was HR = 1.29 (95% CI = 1.12 to 1.49, p < 0.001), indicating a 29% increased probability of survival over time among intervention recipients compared to controls. Among those studies, meta-regressions identified 3 moderating variables: control group type, patient disease severity, and risk of research bias. Studies in which control groups received health information/classes in addition to treatment as usual (TAU) averaged weaker effects than those in which control groups received only TAU. Studies with patients having relatively greater disease severity tended to yield smaller gains in survival time relative to control groups. In one of 3 analyses, studies with higher risk of research bias tended to report better outcomes. The main limitation of the data is that interventions very rarely blinded personnel and participants to study arm, such that expectations for improvement were not controlled.ConclusionsIn this meta-analysis, OR data indicated that psychosocial behavioral support interventions promoting patient motivation/coping to engage in health behaviors improved patient survival, but interventions focusing primarily on patients’ social or emotional outcomes did not prolong life. HR data indicated that psychosocial interventions, predominantly focused on social or emotional outcomes, improved survival but yielded similar effects to health information/classes and were less effective among patients with apparently greater disease severity. Risk of research bias remains a plausible threat to data interpretation.

This study examines the protection of abandoned children from one of the social institutions, namely SOS Children's Villages Meulaboh. This study aims to determine the success of the protection program for neglected children at SOS Children's Villages Meulaboh. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, documentation, and audio-visual materials. The results of this study indicate that child protection at the SOS Children's Villages Meulaboh orphanage has been running well and properly. Through programs designed for the protection of children to ensure the fulfillment of their rights so that they can live, grow and develop like children in general, and are protected from violence and discrimination. In addition, SOS also organizes/provides various activities that support children's growth and development. This is useful for developing religious moral abilities, academic abilities, ethics/politeness so that the realization of quality and noble children.

SOS Children's Village is a non-governmental social development organization, active in the field of children's rights and committed to helping the needs of children since 1949. Child empowerment focuses on family-based and long-term care for children who have lost family’s care and are neglected. with the aim of empowering children. Nurturing usually obtained from parents, for children who live in SOS Children's Village Meulaboh will receive nurturing from foster mothers and coaches. This research is a type of field research, the used method is descriptive qualitative using data obtained from interviews, observations and data from written documents related to this research. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the empowerment of children in SOS Children's Village Meulaboh in the family based care program is the fulfillment of the fields of nurturing, education and child health through the stages and flow of SOS services. Supporting factors include the availability of adequate facilities and infrastructure, the presence of caregivers and coaches, the establishment of partnerships with several institutions or foundations, consistency from coaches, caregivers, and part timers. The inhibiting factors include the various backgrounds of the children in SOS, the constraints of part timers, the unavailability of facilities for gifted children in their areas of interest, as well as barriers from the children themselves who are less disciplined and less open to their environment.

The formula for nurturing the soul always receives interesting discussions, likewise the SOS Children's Village as the largest non-governmental organization dedicated to caring for children who are abandoned and have lost their parents. The SOS Children's Village of Semarang believes that every child deserves to have a loving home by giving children supports they need to grow strong in sustaining life. This article focused on the discussion on how SOS Children's Village formulates ḥifẓ al-nafs by means of parenting styles applied in SOS. The phenomenological approach was used to see how the formulation of soul care was applied by SOS, so that the maintenance of the soul as a part of maqāṣid al-sharī'ah could be more unique due to the emphasis on applicative and empirical nourishment of the soul. SOS had three (3) work programs, namely family-based care, family strengthening programs, and disaster emergency response. The three programs were oriented towards fulfilling children's rights as an effort to nurture children's souls so that they could grow and develop like children with nuclear families, where children who lost their care would live in an SOS village with a substitute family. This concept of care involved a foster mother in each house as the center of care, other children as siblings in the family home, and the SOS Family Village. The forms of care provided by the foster mother included paying attention, supervising, interacting and giving support to the SOS children. Also, the values conveyed in this parenting included religion, love and affection, responsibility and discipline

BackgroundDietary practices are acquired in the family context and in turn can affect the health of family members, especially the nutritional status of children. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between nutritional status and feeding practices in children from foster families served by the SOS Children's Villages program in Cartagena, Colombia.MethodsThe study had a cross-sectional design. Through a non-probabilistic purposive sampling, 139 children from 0 to 5 years of age from the SOS Children's Villages Cartagena program were involved. The sociodemographic background of the participants was recorded and the nutritional status of the children was evaluated through anthropometric and biochemical measurements. Dietary practices were measured by means of a standardized questionnaire. Analyses were performed with Poisson regression models with robust variance. These regression models provided prevalence ratios (PR) with their respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).ResultsAmong dietary practices, it was observed that most families eat together at home (63.3%), watch television when they eat (55.4%), and have dietary norms (80.6%). Consumption of plant foods was predominantly high, especially vegetables (86.3%), fruits (92.1%), cereals (84.9%), root vegetables, and bananas (93.5%). Consumption < 4 times/week of soft drinks and industrialized juices increases 14.3 times the probability of low weight-for-height in the study population compared to the group that does not consume them. On the other hand, watching television while eating (PR: 2.82, 95%CI 1.32—4.69) and consumption of sweet snacks (PR: 2.24, 95%CI 1.03—4.87) increased the probability of low height-for-age; while having eaten norms at home decreased the probability of low height-for-age in the study population by 50%.ConclusionIt is necessary to develop and implement interventions such as preventive measures and early diagnosis of inappropriate feeding behaviors to ensure adequate nutritional status among children under 5 years of age.

Despite significant interaction between children's psychology and space in welfare institutions, only a handful of empirical studies have focused on it to date. Through the investigation, analysis, and spatial classification of the psychological issues of troubled children in the SOS children's village community in Chengdu, we observed the records for 1 year and used the PHCSS-SD method innovatively to systematically and quantitatively analyze the psychology of troubled children and their perception of public space in the park. Based on the needs of hearing, vision, touch, interaction, and safety of children in distress, we selected nine evaluation factors, including daylighting, interesting pattern, participation, and touchability. Each factor was categorized into five evaluation scales for psychological measurement and analysis to provide a basis for the development of mental health and the optimization of the living environment of children in distress. Based on the SD broken line of public space, we analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of space and affirmed the crucial contributions made by the Chinese government to children's welfare. Overall, this study discusses the strategy of building outdoor public spaces in the SOS children's village community.

This paper reports the long term effects of maternal deprivation and of a foster family care for siblings. In a permanent placement (children's villages) a single housemother cares for siblings until adulthood and receives the help of a psycho‐educative team. Investigation on school achievement and on level of education was made on all the subjects reared in a voluntary association of children's villages. It proves to be better compared with children in traditional foster care and children brought up by their parents from very disadvantaged backgrounds. A large part of school failure is lessened for children admitted before 6.

Background: Previous studies have shown that 3.6% of male adolescents in Indonesia have engaged in sexual intercourse, with permissive neglectful parenting identified as a significant contributing factor. Many children in Indonesia grow up without adequate parental care, leading to the establishment of nonprofit social organizations such as SOS Children's Village Semarang. This study aims to identify the factors contributing to risky sexual behavior among foster care adolescents at SOS Children's Village Semarang using the framework of social cognitive theory.Method: This study employed a mixed-methods approach with a sequential explanatory design. Quantitative data were collected through questionnaires, followed by qualitative data collection through observations and in-depth interviews. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the quantitative data, while content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data.Result: This study found that personal factors, including knowledge, attitudes, and expectations, along with environmental factors such as social norms and peer group influence, significantly contribute to risky sexual behavior among foster care adolescents. These findings emphasize the need for comprehensive interventions involving foster parents, orphanage staff, and peers to improve adolescents' understanding of sexual risks, promote positive attitudes toward sexuality, and strengthen their ability to resist negative peer pressures.

Social Workers are a profession that has special skills in helping individuals, families, and communities to carry out their social functions optimally. One form of intervention carried out is through childcare, especially for children who are in a threatened condition or have lost care from the nuclear family. SOS Children's Village Medan implements a family-based care system that aims to create a safe, loving environment that supports children's holistic development. This study aims to determine the form of care carried out by social workers at SOS Children's Village Medan. The method used in this study is qualitative with a descriptive approach. The results of the study indicate that social workers play an important role in designing, supervising, and evaluating care patterns and accompanying children in meeting physical, emotional, social, and educational needs. The family approach has been proven to be able to build emotional bonds and improve the quality of life of the children being assisted.