Imagining family homes
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2022
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Zufferey, C.
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Zufferey, C.
Horsell, C.
Horsell, C.
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Source details - Title: The Complexities of Home in Social Work, 2022 / Zufferey, C., Horsell, C. (ed./s), Ch.8, pp.111-121
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Chapter 8 discusses how family and childhood homes are imagined and shape young people’s sense of home and identity, drawing implications for social work practice. The family home is commonly viewed by psychoanalysts as ‘where we come from’ and as shaping an ‘internal’ and ‘external’ sense of home (see Winnicott, 1990). Anthropologist Cieraad (2010; 1999, p. 11) describes home as ‘the emotionalisation of domestic space’, which is inextricably linked to memories and the idealisation of family. This chapter highlights care leavers’ voices about ‘out of home’ care and debates about home and state institutions, including ideas that state institutions and orphanages can never be a ‘home’. In summary, it discusses social work’s complex engagement with families and children in their physical homes, fixed notions of the ‘home visit’, psychoanalytical understandings about an internal sense of home, and the perspectives of children in ‘out of home’ care, who may feel ‘at home’ (or ‘homeless’), drawing implications for social work.
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Copyright 2022 Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell with Kathryn Burgess, Amy Cleland, Kalpana Goel and Deirdre Tedmanson