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6° 6éme Congresso Congrès Européen Europeo de di Psicopatologia Psychopathologie dell’Infanzia de l’Enfance e et dell’Adolescenza
de l’Adolescence
Nuove Nouvelles normalità normalités Nuove Nouvelles patologie pathologies Nuove pratiche Nouvelles pratiques
SATURDAY, May 7 WORKSHOPS
Workshop 26 Fattori di rischio, di protezione e resilienza
SOCIAL PRACTITIONER AS RESILIENCE TUTOR: BIO-ECOLOGICAL REFLECTION SHIFTING FROM
HIDDEN CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST TO NOWADAYS CHILDREN OUT-OF-HOME
Paola Milani, Marco Ius University of Padova (Padova - IT)
The aim of this paper is to discuss a qualitative
research about resilience and Hidden Child Survivors
(H.C.S.) of the Holocaust (children separated
from birth family and context and hidden
in foster families or convents, and later reunified
with survived parents or adopted).
Assuming the less common perspective of
“learning from the Holocaust” and not of “studying
and teaching the Holocaust”, 21 trajectories
of life of resilient H.C.S. were collected by
semi-structured narrative interviews to search
for and discuss on protective factors that fostered
their development and growth, and that can
be considered by social practitioners working
with vulnerable children and families, in order to
foster similar resilience responses and the best
possible development among children currently
in out-of-home care. Although aware of the singularity
of the survivors’ experiences and that
nowadays children out-of-home live in cultural
and social contexts completely different from
the WW2's one, separation, life in a vulnerable
context, belonging and identity issues are all
topics that can be assumed as links between
the experience of child survivors and children in
care today.
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The results shown that informal significant
adult was key in children's life in terms of offering
a stable and continuous relationship, promoting
the story telling process as a encouraging
listener (narrative identity, Ricoeur) versus
the conspiracy of silence, and helping making
positive sense out of tough experiences.
The presentation will discuss the findings particularly
focussing on how social practitioners,
according to their specific profession, can act
as "resilience tutor" (Cyrulnik, 2001) for children
and family in care on the different levels of ecological
niche (Bioecological model, Bronfenbrenner,
1979, 2005) in order to improve child
and family wellbeing: working in the microsystem
directly with them (narrative approach), in
the meso- and eso-system fostering informal
care, relationship, belonging and everyday life
within the community, and in the macro-level on
a political base of welfare.
This paper is submitted inside the symposium
"Protective functions in the life contexts" proposed
by Bastianoni P., Taurino A.