<p>Children’s participation in their planning in health and social services is important. To make children’s needs more considered they need to be involved in the cision-making processes. Children have the ability to reflect. The aim has been to find ut which knowledge there is about participation of children and youth with disability in meetings with the society and elucidate factors that have an impact on the participation. This study focus on the children’s view on their own participation. The topic was examined with a selective systematic literature review. Forty studies showed that children want to be participating in their own habilitation contacts. The majority studies concern health care, very few social care. This study concerns children’s participation in the aspect how</p><p>• they are listened to</p><p>• they are supported in expressing their views</p><p>• their views are taken into account</p><p>• they are involved in decision-making processes and</p><p>• they participate and have power and responsibility for decision-making.</p><p>Children clearly desired participation in the three first levels and to some extent in the two latter. Time, flexibility, the staff ’s child competence and children’s participation competence, interaction competence (children, parents, staff) etc are important factors on individual and system level. Despite knowledge about children ’s competence the awareness still is low about the importance of children’s participation.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-3710 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Stenhammar, Ann-Marie |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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