abstract: 'This paper addresses the conceptualization of `outcomes'' for care

  experienced people through an in-depth longitudinal study of 75 young

  adults in Denmark, England and Norway. `Outcome'' studies have played a

  crucial role in raising awareness of the risk of disadvantage that care

  experienced people face, across a variety of domains including education

  and employment. These studies may have an unintended consequence,

  however, if care experienced people are predominantly viewed, and

  studied, through a problem-focused lens. The danger is that policy and

  research neglects other - perhaps less readily measurable - aspects of

  experience, including subjective understandings - what matters to care

  experienced people themselves. Our analyses are based on an in-depth

  qualitative longitudinal study, which explored meanings of `doing well''

  over time among care experienced people (aged 16-32), all of whom were

  `successful'' in relation to traditional indicators of participation in

  education and/or employment (including voluntary work). Across

  countries, their accounts revealed the importance of attending to

  subjective and dynamic understandings of `doing well'', and the

  significance of ordinary, mundane and `do-able'' lives. Participants''

  narratives highlight aspects of doing well that raise challenging

  questions about how traditional outcome indicators - and corresponding

  policy priorities - might better capture what young people themselves

  see as important. A narrow interpretation of outcomes may lead to

  misrecognition of what it means to do well, and so to a stigmatizing

  `way of seeing'' care experienced lives. A broader conceptualization of

  outcomes is necessary to recognize - and so to develop policy and

  services to support - the complex, dynamic relationality of doing well.'
affiliation: 'Bakketeig, E (Corresponding Author), OsloMet Oslo Metropolitan Univ,
  Norwegian Social Res NOVA, Pb 4, Oslo, Norway.

  Bakketeig, Elisiv; Gundersen, Tonje, OsloMet Oslo Metropolitan Univ, Norwegian Social
  Res NOVA, Pb 4, Oslo, Norway.

  Boddy, Janet, Univ Sussex, Ctr Innovat \& Res Childhood \& Youth, Sussex House,
  Brighton BN1 9RH, E Sussex, England.

  Ostergaard, Jeanette, VIVE Danish Ctr Social Sci Res, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, DK-1052
  Copenhagen K, Denmark.

  Hanrahan, Fidelma, Res Practice, Dartington Hall, Totnes TQ9 6EE, Devon, England.'
article-number: '105333'
author: Bakketeig, Elisiv and Boddy, Janet and Gundersen, Tonje and Ostergaard, Jeanette
  and Hanrahan, Fidelma
author-email: 'elba@oslomet.no

  j.m.boddy@sussex.ac.uk

  togun@oslomet.no

  jea@vive.dk

  Fidelma.Hanrahan@researchinpractice.org.uk'
author_list:
- family: Bakketeig
  given: Elisiv
- family: Boddy
  given: Janet
- family: Gundersen
  given: Tonje
- family: Ostergaard
  given: Jeanette
- family: Hanrahan
  given: Fidelma
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105333
eissn: 1873-7765
files: []
issn: 0190-7409
journal: CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'CHILD; RECOGNITION; ADULTHOOD; LEAVERS; STIGMA; MOTHERHOOD; PREGNANCY;

  PATHWAYS'
language: English
month: NOV
number-of-cited-references: '75'
orcid-numbers: Ostergaard, Jeanette/0000-0002-6659-7423
papis_id: a7200d06c54dc052b87d87cbea130132
ref: Bakketeig2020deconstructingdoing
times-cited: '7'
title: Deconstructing doing well; what can we learn from care experienced young people
  in England, Denmark and Norway?
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000580051200030
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usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '118'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies; Social Work
year: '2020'