Securing a Sense of Safety for Adopted Children in Middle Childhood

这项研究将有助于儿童地理学、儿童学和社会工作专业内部的辩论；将人类地理学关于安全、不安全、文化地理和空间归属的知识与社会工作中关于被收养儿童的叙事、依恋和结果的知识结合起来，以便考虑为他们提供安全的概念。它将探索儿童的安全是如何通过成人的干预而概念化的，以及儿童如何使他们眼前的世界具有意义。通过参与成人和儿童关于社会和物质主义空间构建的辩论，并创造性地利用地图技术，本研究将增加我们对如何增加被收养儿童在从事生活故事工作时的幸福感和本体论安全感的理解和实践。通过使用联合制作的儿童钥匙和他们所在地方的地图，并分析他们对如何在其中感到安全(自我证券化)的意义，这项研究将为研究人员、从业者和收养家庭提供建议，以加强对生活故事工作的参与。从而增加了我们对研究人员和实践者如何帮助在他们的世界中扩展强大的多维(物理、虚拟、时间、想象)安全(安全叙事)途径的理解。

This research will contribute to the debates within children's geography, childhood studies and the profession of social work; by drawing together the knowledge from human geography on security, insecurity, cultural geography and spatial belonging with the knowledge in social work of narrative, attachment and outcomes for adopted children in order to consider the concept of security for them. It will explore how children's security is conceptualised through the interventions of adults and, how children make meaning about their immediate world. By engaging with the debates on the social and materialist construction of spaces by adults and children and creatively utilizing mapping techniques the research will add to our understanding and practice of how to increase the well-being and feeling of ontological security experienced by adopted children when engaging in life story work. In using co-produced children's keys and maps of their places and analysing the sense they make of how to feel secure (self-securitisation) within them the research will provide recommendations for researchers, practitioners and adoptive families to enhance engagement with life story work. Thus adding to our understanding of how researchers and practitioners can help extend robust multi-dimensional (physical, virtual, temporal, imaginative) pathways of security (safety narratives) within their worlds.