Toward Improvement of Foster Parent System with a Special Focus on Disabled Children : A Comparative Study of Japan and China and a Research on Possibilities of Better Support through LSW at Home

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530771
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: KAWANA Hatsuko 早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, 准教授 (50091054)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): JIN Jie 大正大学, 人間科学部, 准教授 (50347811)
• Research Collaborator: HIRATA Shuzo 早稲田大学, 人間総合科学研究所, 招聘研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 障害児 / 要保護児童 / 里親 / 里親制度 / 養子縁組 / 国際比較 / 子どもの権利条約 / ライフストーリーワーク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

<Purpose> We conducted an investigation for improvement of foster parent system, aiming institutionalization of care for disabled children and studied “the life story work（LSW）”, which is a supporting method possible at home.
<Result> (1)We found out that foster parents in Japan should be understood and supported by school and agency in their neighborhood. The reason is, more than half of foster parents in Japan want to work for children with disabilities, on the other hand, nearly 30% of them have difficulties in raising those children. (2)Based on the rights of children, practical trainings for foster parents are carried out within each community at Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chingtao, Chungking, Beijing in China, and Florence in Italy. We should learn a lot of lessons from them．(3)More and more concerned people come to get interested in LSW in terms of theory and practice.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学