Publicaties

Assessing candidates for adoptive parenthood

Prospective adoptive parents who take part in a Dutch adoption assessment procedure are asked to writedown their life stories. In this article we examine how information from the life stories is deleted, selectedand transformed into a topic to talk about in an assessment interview and/or to write about in arecommendation record. We have shown in a detailed analysis how prospective adoptive parentsdemonstrate themselves to be “normal people” with “normal childhoods” and how life events are selectedfrom the life stories as a means to assess the coping qualities of the prospective adoptive parents. We couldconclude that social workers in the recommendation record: 1) turn statements made by the parents intofacts; 2) leave statements in the parents' own words, and that they 3) assess suspicions of possible risk factorsin the interview but omit them from the record. By using conversation analysis as a method we could gain aninsight into the dynamics of assessment, making visible exactly how social workers collect information aboutpeople's background to arrive at a decision about whether the candidates are suitable adoptive parents.

Duurzame zorg | 01-01-2009

Assessment in Action : Assessing and displaying suitability for adoptive parenthood through text and talk

This thesis is on institutional communication, and focuses in particular on interactional processes between social workers and prospective adoptive parents in assessment procedures for adoptive parenthood. These assessments are conducted in the Netherlands by the Child Protection Board (hereafter CPB). In order to make recommendations about the suitability of prospective adoptive parents, the CPB is tasked with assessing ‘possible risk and protection factors that might hinder a stable development of the adoptive child towards adulthood’ (CPB, 2001: 62). The assessment procedure includes a health check, whether or not the candidates have a criminal record, written life stories of the prospective adoptive parents and four interviews conducted by a social worker from the CPB. The procedure concludes with a formal record, including a recommendation, that is sent to the Dutch state agency. This thesis concentrates on institutional assessments of adoptive parenthood procedures through text and talk: on assessment in action. It includes an analysis of the interviews related to the life stories of the prospective adoptive parents and the reproduction of both in the recommendation record.

17-10-2011

Attachment in interaction

Out-of-home placed children or adolescents can be placed in family-style group care, a promising alternative youth care setting. It provides children and Professional Foster Parents (PFPs) with the opportunity to create a continuous relationship. This relationship, in turn, is an important factor in building and maintaining attachment. Scientific literature shows that sensitivity and responsivity are crucial interactional elements for building and maintaining an attachment relationship, but little knowledge is available on how those concepts are displayed in mundane interactions. Therefore this dissertation studies dinner conversations between experienced PFPs and adolescents in family-style group care to find out how sensitivity and responsivity unfold in these conversations. The data consist of 300 hours of videorecordings coming from six family-style group care settings. The method of Conversation Analysis was used to analyse the conversations in detail. On the basis of four studies a better understanding is gained into how the dyadic concepts sensitivity and responsivity are displayed in daily interactions between PFPs and adolescents in family-style group care. The analysis of these specific phenomena disclose the PFPadolescent interaction from different perspectives: the verbal and non-verbal actions of both PFPs and adolescents and how PFPs and adolescents align. In short, this dissertation provides a detailed analysis of interaction and improves the understanding of the dyadic concepts sensitivity and responsivity. It reveals that adolescents are active participants in interactions and shows that PFPs are inventive in their conversations with the adolescents.

Pleeg- en Gezinshuiszorg | 05-11-2020

Bachelor of Nursing 2030: Opleidingsprofiel

Het landelijke opleidingsprofiel Bachelor of Nursing 2030 (BN2030) geeft in hoofdlijnen weer wat een afgestudeerde bachelor verpleegkundige (hbo-v’er) moet kennen en kunnen. BN2030 biedt een overzicht van de landelijk vastgestelde competenties van de bacheloropleiding Verpleegkunde. Het opleidingsprofiel is daarmee de basis voor de opleiding tot bachelor verpleegkundige: de verpleegkundige opgeleid op niveau 6 van het Nederlands kwalificatieraamwerk (NLQF 6). Het opleidingsprofiel BN2030 is opgeleverd in oktober 2023. In dit TvZ-dossier over BN2030 belicht de schrijfgroep BN2030 belangrijke wijzigingen in het opleidingsprofiel. Ze beschrijven eerst de verandering in de benaming van de CanMEDS-rollen. Daarna worden de drie belangrijkste aanpassingen in het opleidingsprofiel toegelicht aan de hand van drie thema’s: leiderschap, probleemoplossend vermogen en preventie. Hierna wordt kort beschreven welke gevolgen dit heeft voor de CanMEDS-rollen met de bijbehorende competenties.

20-06-2024

Balancing collective action and connective action in new food cooperatives

Communication that fosters collective action is considered a key driver of transformational change. This study explores the role that cooperatives could play in transforming the current unsustainable food system toward sustainability. The focal point of the study is how communication processes of nonprofit cooperative forms of collective action can optimize their transformative capacity and, in a wider context, contribute to agricultural transformation. The study addresses former research on transformation, in particular on how transformation is triggered at local level. To assess how transformation can be stimulated in practice, the case of a new food cooperative – Farming Communities, a grassroots initiative in the south of the Netherlands – is investigated. Farming Communities serves as an example of an innovative form of food production and illustrates how collective action and connective action come about through interaction. Collective action, depending on the quality and the results of interaction, is fostered by acknowledged vertical and horizontal interdependence and a certain level of trust. Interaction dynamics for collective action can enhance transformative capacity by emergent new ways of doing, knowing, framing, and organizing. Furthermore, the concept of connective action is introduced, which entails interaction dynamics among individuals who share ideas and opinions via networked technologies. Connective action can overcome the fragility of a single local initiative and is suitable for enhancing the transformative capacity of a grassroots initiative. However, a surplus of connection action could hamper the robustness of collective action. Cooperatives are therefore challenged to find a fruitful balance between collective action and connective action.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 12-10-2022

Beelden van heil in bestsellers rond zingeving en lifestyle

Er worden veel zingeving en lifestyle boeken gepubliceerd waarin een weg wordt gezocht die heilzaam beoogt te zijn voor mensen van deze tijd. Het is interessant te kijken welke heilswegen hedendaagse bestsellers schetsen en hoe zich deze zich verhouden tot het heil dat in het christendom verkondigd wordt. In dit artikel worden vier bestsellers geanalyseerd vanuit de vraag op welke manier mensen van nu ‘heil’ kunnen beleven. Wat bevordert (of belemmert) volgens de auteurs het lichamelijke, geestelijke, sociale en/of maatschappelijke welzijn van mensen? Na een beknopt overzicht per boek wordt er uitgezoomd om overeenkomsten te schetsen van het heil dat wordt gepresenteerd in de verschillende bestsellers.

Zingeving in nieuwe geloofsgemeenschappen | 01-06-2020

Beelden van Ouderen in het Onderwijs van Social Work en Verpleegkunde

Binnen de opleidingen Sociaal Werk en Verpleegkunde worden professionals opgeleid die veelal met ouderen zullen werken. Toch kiezen studenten opvallend vaker voor stages in de jeugdzorg, terwijl de ouderenspecialisatie weinig belangstelling trekt. Dit roept vragen op over het beeld dat studenten van ouderen hebben en wat hierover in het onderwijs wordt overgedragen. Dit onderzoek onder CHE-studenten en docenten verkent deze beeldvorming en leidde tot de ontwikkeling van gerichte onderwijsactiviteiten.

Leefstijl en Gezondheidsbevordering, Informele Netwerken | 01-04-2026

Beginnende verpleegkundige onder de loep!

Binnen de Hogeschool Ede is een verkennend onderzoek onder beginnende en ervaren verpleegkundigen verricht. De onderzoeksvraag is als volgt: ‘Welke persoonlijke factoren van beginnende verpleegkundigen beïnvloeden positief of negatief het professioneel handelen?’ Het onderzoek heeft plaatsgevonden in het psychiatrisch werkveld.

Verpleegkundige beroepsethiek, Reflectie op goede zorg | 27-05-2014