‘We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life’: Using sandboxing to understand children and young people’s everyday conversations about care
Researchers used a creative method in which care-experienced children and young people made sand scenes to express hopes and fears about conversations concerning their lives. The analysis described children’s wish for warm, open and responsive discussions about difficult aspects of their histories. The paper addresses adoption and care experiences.
Limitations: Adoption and other care experiences are discussed together. The abstract does not report sample size, regional coverage or separate adoptee findings. Creative qualitative accounts do not measure the effectiveness of life story interventions. Related Difficult Conversations publications arise from the same project. Recruitment relationship: an adoption agency and local authority helped recruit and support participants, as recorded in the university publication record. This does not establish that the agency conducted the study; readers may consider this route into the sample.
- Research type
- Qualitative study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: mixed
Adoption context: Adoption and care combined
Programme: Bristol Difficult Conversations life story research
Institutional context: Adoption service provider / adoption-sector organisation
Recruitment relationship: an adoption agency and local authority helped recruit and support participants, as recorded in the university publication record. This does not establish that the agency conducted the study; readers may consider this route into the sample.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, communication, identity, life story work, participation, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional coverage not specified in abstract)
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