• “It Is Possible to Call More People Mum”—Contact Between Children in Foster Care and Their Birth Parents 

      Rugkåsa, Marianne; Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth (Social Sciences;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)
      Contact arrangements in child protection can often create conflicts and distress. This is an area the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWSs) have paid greater attention to in recent years, to a large degree due to several ...
    • Out of home care in Norway and Sweden - similar and different 

      Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth; Höjer, Ingrid; Sjöblom, Yvonne; Storø, Jan (Psychosocial Intervention/Intervencion Psicosocia;22(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      An overview of the current situation in the out-of-home care in Norway and Sweden is presented in this article; also the development in later years is described and discussed. Socially, politically and culturally there ...