Bringing together ethnographic approaches to childhood, linguistic anthropology, and
relational–feminist perspectives on care, this review focuses on the role of children as …

This paper is based on a study of the experiences of people identified as 'young carers',
commissioned by the National Assembly for Wales as part of a wider review of carers' needs …

Many children under the age of 18 are drawn into unpaid caring roles because they live in
families where there is chronic illness, mental health problems or substance misuse, and …

Objective: To investigate the psychosocial impact of young caregiving by empirically
validating prominent qualitative themes. This was achieved through developing an inventory …

This research contributes a first-hand account of the experiences of youth's substantial
unpaid familial caregiving in the context of long-term illness, disability or problems related to …

Care giving has become a high-profile issue in policy and practice, yet much of the literature
conceives it as burdensome or even oppressive. Drawing extensively on real-life examples …

This study examined a stress/coping model of adjustment in early caregiving. It was
hypothesized that better adjustment would be related to higher social support and approach …

For the first time, this article will provide a cross-national profile of adolescents who provide
unpaid care to their ill or disabled family members in six European countries with varied …

This book advocates the development of international social work, both as offering an
important perspective on practice at local level and as a distinct form of cross-border and …

Social Policy for Social Work provides a comprehensive, critical and engaging introduction
to social policy for students and practitioners of social work. The text is clearly structured into …