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    Attachment intervention through peer-based interaction: Working with Istanbul's street boys in a university setting
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2015) Bademci, H. Ozden; Karadayi, E. Figen; de Zulueta, Felicity
    Street youths are a particularly vulnerable group because of early experiences of emotional and physical neglect and abuse which can make them difficult to approach. Traditional interventions such as 1 h weekly therapy sessions do not meet their needs. This article describes a creative and novel approach to the rehabilitation of street children implemented during the To-Gather with Youth Project (TYP) under the aegis of the Research and Application Center to Support Children/Youth Living and Working in the Streets (SOYA) at Maltepe University in Istanbul, running in collaboration with state-run care institutions for boys since 2010. The approach consists of a peer-based supportive model that provides adolescent boys care with emotional and social security through attachment relationships that they develop with university students. The teaching staff and students of the psychology department constitute the core group running the program, which also includes workshops assisted by teachers and students from humanities departments such as philosophy, drama, and radio. These workshops are organized to promote the psychosocial and cognitive development of the participating street boys as well as to enable their direct access to the public through their art and photography. Based on a qualitative analysis of narrative interviews with boys and detailed observational reports by project volunteers, we identify several mechanisms that we believe contribute to change in the boys, including the development of secure attachment relationships with a trusted adult, a child-centered approach, and a socially safe environment created by peer-support in a university setting. The boys and volunteers also reported incidents and feelings that seem to suggest that the boys' have increased their capacity to regulate their emotions, sense of self-esteem and resilience, and desire to develop their lives in the future. This paper offers this intervention as a feasible service model for the rehabilitation of street boys in other cities. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Exploring school exclusion through the perspective of child labourers living in Sultanbeyli, on the periphery of Istanbul, Turkey
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2016) Bademci, H. Ozden; Karadayi, E. Figen; Vural, Narin Bagdatli
    This study employs a socio-ecological perspective to explore the impact of the community, school environment and personal circumstances of young people living in the squatter district of Sultanbeyli in Istanbul, Turkey, who have been excluded from school and who are working in very difficult conditions. The views explored in this paper are derived from semi-structured interviews that covered the reasons for their exclusion. The findings show that the elimination of poverty and the provision of universal education are linked and that one cannot be achieved without the other. The impact of poverty on the processes of school exclusion requires greater recognition, because it helps to perpetuate an intergenerational cycle of social and educational disadvantage. In the case of these young people from Sultanbeyli, the school system has failed to contribute to their inclusion; instead, it has further increased their marginal, disadvantaged position by unintentionally pushing them into the worst forms of child labour and criminality. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Improving psychosocial well-being of child laborers and young people who are engaged in low-income economic activities in Istanbul, Turkey
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2017) Bademci, H. Ozden; Karadayi, E. Figen; Karabulut, Ipek Guzide Pur; Kurt, Zeynep; Warfa, Nasir
    Child laborers are typically subjected to multiple and chronic traumatic experiences. With no parents or caregivers to act as a buffer zone against stressors, they grow up in chaotic and unpredictable work environments. Child laborers are more at risk of developing a range of psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems. The authors established an 8-month psychosocial support program for child laborers and young people attending a vocational training center one day a week. The authors found that anxiety and depression moderately correlated with negative self-concept, somatization, and hostility. Toward the end of the 8-month program, participants reported improved psychological and emotional well-being. The provision of a safe and mediated psychosocial program enhanced the emotional and mental wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people.
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    Teachers' perceptions of an attachment-informed psychosocial programme for schoolchildren with social and emotional problems in Istanbul, Turkey: theory & practice
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD) Bademci, H. Ozden; Warfa, Nasir; Bagdatli-Vural, Narin; Karadayi, E. Figen; Yurt, Seher; Karasar, Sahin
    This paper explores the role positive attachment relationship plays in improving children's social and emotional development. In doing so, we are using the Attachment Theory as our principle theoretical framework. We carried out qualitative interviews with 18 teachers and school staff working in a primary school setting located in a deprived neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. Significant number of children attending this school had experienced social and emotional problems. We devised an innovative psychosocial programme where 40 university student mentors and their professors provided weekly psychosocial support to 160 year-one and year-two primary schoolchildren over a period of 8 months. The objective was to create a secure proximity zone from which the university students acted the older and more knowledgeable secondary caregivers to the schoolchildren. This paper evaluates the teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of the attachment-informed psychosocial programme on children's social and emotional wellbeing.
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    What Makes Children Want to Learn? Working with Street Children at a University
    (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2014) Bademci, H. Ozden; Karadayi, E. Figen; Miljkovic, D
    In the face of overwhelming feelings children erect defensive structures to protect themselves. Although these defensive strategies often protect them from anxiety impede their learning. As a result, many of them academically do quite poorly. SOYAC (Maltepe University Research and Application Centre for Street Children) is the only centre at a university to study issues facing street children in Turkey. A more fluid and client directed program has been created for street children. Since 2010, a range of strategies are used to engage boys ages 11-17 in different phases of state care, including peer-based interventions, art, radio, theatre etc. to create a 'safe learning environment'. Undergraduate as well as post-graduate psychology students are involved in the project along with the boys. Besides students' actual physical presence their mental presence has been ensured as they act as a 'container' for boys' anxieties by giving them substantial help in thinking about and making sense of their experiences of the world. In this way boys have the experiences of being thought about that is what primarily needed for learning in the psychoanalytic perspective. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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    Who is the helper? Who is being helped? The benefits of psychosocial support to correctional officers in Turkey
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016) Bademci, H. Ozden; Karadayi, E. Figen; Karabulut, Ipek Guzide Pur; Warfa, Nasir
    Correctional officers working in detention centres have the primary responsibilities of maintaining safety and security within the walls of restrictive institutions by closely monitoring, supervising and managing inmates and prisoners with a history of violence and problematic behaviours. Particularly, the demands of providing service to detained children and adolescent groups with traumatic life events, deviance, criminality and negligence can provoke powerful and overwhelming negative emotions. These adverse emotional responses include feelings of sadness, hopelessness, helplessness, depersonalisation, frustration and guilt, which are felt by correctional officers who are involved in the care of vulnerable young people who are perceived to pose a threat to society. In the research described in this paper we used both quantitative and qualitative research methods to collect data from correctional officers. We used content analysis on the qualitative transcripts and carried out statistical analyses on a range of measures comparing the levels of burnout, depression, anxiety, job satisfaction and positive and negative affect before and after joining the Psychosocial Support Program (PSP). Our findings suggested that PSP helped to reduce burnout, depression and anxiety levels among the correctional officers who took part in the programme. At the end of programme, participants reported increased job satisfaction, decreased emotional exhaustion, decreased depersonalisation and increased personal accomplishment.
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    'Working with vulnerable children': Listening to the views of the service providers working with street children in Istanbul
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2012) Bademci, H. Ozden
    As in other developing countries with major metropolises, 'street children' have constituted one of the most important problems in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul, over the last two decades. The General Directorate of Social Services and the Child Protection Agency (SHCEK) is the state agency responsible for street children and their protection. The purpose of the study is to explore the nature and organisation of state welfare service provision for street children in Istanbul and to develop a conceptual framework of state welfare service provision for street children in Istanbul from the service providers' point of view. While the street children phenomenon is well documented in other national contexts, and has been approached as a socio-economic problem on both the micro and macro levels in the local literature, the field of service provision for street children in Turkey has been little investigated up to now. For this study, narrative interviews were utilised to collect qualitative data on the services for street children. The research sought the participation of all service providers, ranging from senior management and front-line workers through to the support staff employed by the SHCEK centres. The approach taken has been richly rewarded by the data amassed on the organisational culture and shortcomings of these units. This not only supports the results of similar research globally, but also provides a useful alternative explanation of the persistence of the street children problems of Istanbul. The most important result of the research is the demonstration that service provision cannot be assessed without the direct investigation of service providers because the service providers themselves determine the scope and the quality of the service provision. The research demonstrates that SHCEK reproduces its own marginalisation in society, and consequently that of its employees, in a way that ultimately ensures the re-marginalisation of the service users. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.