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Young Carers—Education and Support
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Young Carers—Education and Support

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 2932

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Agnes Leu

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1. Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Medical Faculty, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
2. Department of Health, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Gloriastrasse 18a, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: young carers research, policy and practice; vulnerability; health literacy; health sciences; medical ethics; medical law; public health

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Dear Colleagues, 

This Special Issue focuses on Young Carers—Education and Support. Submissions of original articles, systematic reviews, short communications, and other types of articles on related topics are welcome. All manuscripts will follow standard journal peer-review practices, and those accepted for publication will appear in the Special Issue on Young Carers—Education and Support.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Agnes Leu
Guest Editor

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Basic Conditions for Support of Young Carers in School: A Secondary Analysis of the Perspectives of Young Carers, Parents, Teachers, and Counselors
by Steffen Kaiser, Steffen Siegemund-Johannsen, Gisela C. Schulze and Anna-Maria Spittel
Healthcare 2024, 12(11), 1143; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12111143 - 4 Jun 2024
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Young carers face a variety of challenges at school. While schools can be vital places of support, the assistance they receive at school often seems selective and fails to consider the unique life situations of individual students. This paper examines the perspective of [...] Read more.
Young carers face a variety of challenges at school. While schools can be vital places of support, the assistance they receive at school often seems selective and fails to consider the unique life situations of individual students. This paper examines the perspective of multiple actors in the student’s school environment and explores how schools can develop comprehensive, sustainable support systems for young carers—systems that consider and involve as many actors as possible in the student’s school environment. In a secondary analysis of two interview studies, we analyzed how young carers as well as their parents, teachers, and school counsellors perceived the school support the carers received. We then developed an integrated model that incorporates these differing perspectives. The model offers an approach for implementing low-threshold support for young carers within existing school structures in relation to their family situation and outlines conditions that can support both recognized and “invisible” young carers, as well as other students. Full article
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Adolescent Young Carers Who Provide Help and Support to Friends
by Rosita Brolin, Elizabeth Hanson, Lennart Magnusson, Feylyn Lewis, Tom Parkhouse, Valentina Hlebec, Sara Santini, Renske Hoefman, Agnes Leu and Saul Becker
Healthcare 2023, 11(21), 2876; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11212876 - 1 Nov 2023
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Prior studies emphasize the value of friends’ support for children/adolescents who have a disability or suffer from mental ill-health or a long-term illness. However, few studies have explored how a caring role affects those young friend carers themselves. This paper addresses a gap [...] Read more.
Prior studies emphasize the value of friends’ support for children/adolescents who have a disability or suffer from mental ill-health or a long-term illness. However, few studies have explored how a caring role affects those young friend carers themselves. This paper addresses a gap in the research by focusing on this hitherto neglected group of young carers to explore the impact of providing care to friends. An online survey was employed for a cross-national study conducted in 2018–2019 in Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to examine the incidence of adolescent young friend carers, the extent of care they provide, and their self-reported health, well-being, and school situation. The survey was completed by 7146 adolescents, aged 15–17, and 1121 of them provided care to a friend with a health-related condition, most frequently mental ill-health. They carried out high levels of caring activities, and a quarter of them also provided care to a family member. They experienced both positive and negative aspects of caring. Nevertheless, in comparison with adolescents who provided care to family members, they reported more health problems, with a dominance of mental ill-health, and they received lower levels of support. Since adolescent friends play a valuable role for young people with health-related conditions, especially mental ill-health, it is important to find ways of optimizing their caring experiences in order that those adolescents who choose to care for a friend can do so without it having a negative impact on their own mental health, well-being, and life situation. Full article
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