Developing child-centred family and community practice: Listening to boys aged 9-12 with behaviour problems about their social contexts and needs

儿童和家庭服务旨在通过全面的、基于优势的、协作的家庭和社区实践，减少儿童面临的风险，确保他们的福祉。然而，服务仍然以成人为中心；儿童往往被视为接受者而非告密者，被视为变革的目标而非塑造者。这项与维多利亚英国圣公会合作的研究将主要通过男孩自己的声音来研究9-12岁具有挑战性、攻击性行为的男孩的专业反应的背景、内容和效果。这项研究采用参与式调查的方法，针对特别年轻和有问题的人群，旨在更好地了解他们的经历，并展示提高儿童参与的机会和方法。

Children's and family services seek to reduce risks to children and ensure their well-being through holistic, strengths-based, collaborative family and community practice. Yet services remain adult-centric; children are often seen as recipients rather than informants, as targets rather than shapers of change. This study with Anglicare Victoria will examine the contexts, content and effects of professional responses to boys aged 9-12 years with challenging, aggressive behaviour, chiefly through the voices of the boys themselves. Adapting participatory enquiry methods for an unusually young and troubled population, the study aims to better understand their experiences and also to demonstrate opportunities and methods for enhancing children's participation.