Browsing by Author "Pasanen, Laura"

The aim of this study was to examine how to support studies of children and youth in foster care. In addition, another aim of this study was to examine what sort of factors cause difficul-ties for studies of these children and youth. Foster children and foster youth can struggle with their studies in many ways. Regarding to previous research, professionals can support these children’s studies with different sorts of interventions and models. This study was conducted as a systematic literature review. Five peer reviewed articles written in English were selected to this study. Articles were selected using a strict criterion. I analyzed ways of support and difficulties emerged from the articles by making themes and combining the results. The results indicate that children and youth in foster care can be supported with functional in-terprofessional cooperation, training of professionals and suitable practices of school and foster parents. Difficulties were caused by lack of cooperation, insufficient practices of school and child welfare, and inadequate resources. Findings of this study are converging. Cooperation was the most important factor considering both support and difficulties.