Institutional Persistence: Involvements with Child Protective Services, the Criminal Justice System and Mental Health Services across Childhood, Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Denmark
AbstractThe pairwise overlaps in system involvement between child protective services (CPS), mental health services and the criminal justice system are well-documented. Yet, less is known about how contact to these three systems evolves as children age, and how children ’s trajectories through these institutions should be conceptualised. In this article, we use administrative data on the full population of Danish children born 1982–1995 that had contact to at least one of the three systems before turning twenty-one. Theoretically, we argue that children’s tra jectories of institutional contacts can be understood as a...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - May 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Permanency Decisions in Child Welfare: A Qualitative Study
This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with seventeen child welfare professionals exploring their permanency decisions with regards to Looked after Children. Thinking aloud-protocols and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with a specifically constructed vignette were used to explore the permanency decisions of child welfare workers. Findings from this innovative research suggest that different decisions were taken by participants based on viewing the same vignette. However, even though the decisions differed, they clustered around the more interventionist options wi...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - May 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Child ’s Legal Journey through Care (England), Shefali Shah
The Child ’s Legal Journey through Care (England), ShahShefali, London, Coram BAAF, 2021, pp. vii + 235, ISBN 978 1 910039 90 8, £16.95 (pbk) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - May 16, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Post-Pandemic Recovery Requires ‘More and Better’ Mental Health Services
While the arrival and subsequent rollout of COVID-19 vaccines started gaining momentum, the General Secretary of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres rightly suggested that this process only represented ‘some light at the end of the tunnel’ (UN News, 2021). The vaccine rollout has not been without challenges. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - May 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Work Practice with Adults under the Rising Second Wave of Covid-19 in England: Frontline Experiences and the Use of Professional Judgement
This study draws on telephone interviews with a sample of twenty-two social workers working with adults in a wide range of roles and settings in ten local authorities and two National Health Service Hospital Trusts, interviewed August –October 2020. Following transcription, interview data were analysed thematically. Findings are reported under three emerging themes: using professional judgement, new and emerging case work and embedding change. These are compared with findings from studies of practice in children’s services an d of surveys of social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Implications for practice, servic...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - May 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Strength-based Approach to Exploring Factors that Contribute to Resilience Among Children and Youth Impacted by Disaster
This article discusses research conducted with eighty-three children and youth (five to seventeen years) who experienced the 2013 flood in Alberta, Canada. A mixed-methods approach was utilised. The Child and Youth Resilience Measure was used to examine the factors that contribute to resilience post-disaster, including individual, care-giver and contextual factors. In-depth qualitative interv iews further examined the specific ways in which individual, caregiver and contextual factors contribute to higher levels of resilience. Findings reveal that despite numerous post-flood challenges, children and youth had higher tha...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - May 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Beyond the Toxic Trio: Exploring Demand Typologies in Children ’s Social Care
This article reports on a more comprehensive picture of demand obtained through a quantitative study of child welfare interventions in England. Longitudinal child-leve l data were combined from children’s social care services in six English local authorities over a four-year period (2015–2018). Latent class analysis was undertaken for a random sample of child episodes where an assessment was undertaken (n = 15,000). The results were tested for consistency across LAs and to identify the most appropriate number of classes. Conditional probabilities were used to interpret the demand represented by each class, and to e...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation, Thompson Paul, Plummer Ken, and Demireva Neli
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation,PaulThompson, KenPlummer, NeliDemirevaBristol, Policy Press, 2021, pp.254,ISBN 9781447333524 £75.00 (h/b) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Edited by Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner
Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Edited by KlammerUte, LeiberSimone, LeitnerSigrid,Research in social work series, published in association with the European Social Work Research Association, Bristol, UK, Policy Press, 2021, xvii + 235 pages, £26.99, ISBN 978-1-4473-4915-0 (hbk), 978-1-4473-4916-7 (pbk), 978-1-4473-4917-4 (ePdf), 978-1-4473-4918-1 (ePub), 978-1-4473-4919-8 (Mobi) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World (Third Edition) edited by Lynne Moore Healy and Rebecca Leela Thomas
International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World (Third Edition), edited by HealyLynne Moore and ThomasRebecca Leela, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021, 528 pp., £39.98, ISBN 9780190922252 (paperback); ISBN 9780190922276 (epub) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Conceptualising Care in Children ’s Social Services
This article explores the concept of care and the responsibility assumed by ‘states’ when taking children into care. It examines the limitations of the state in exercising its parental duty and it proposes a model for re-conceptualising children’s social care by drawing on the literature on autonomy, recognition theory and specific provisions of the United Nations Con vention on the Rights of the Child. The model places the child’s dignity at the core of the care framework, and it argues that a children’s rights approach which is grounded in moral theories contributes to their self-esteem and autonomy, both of wh...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding Successes and Failures of Family Group Conferencing: An in-Depth Multiple Case Study
AbstractFamily group conferencing (FGC) is considered to be a promising method for empowerment and community building of people in need of care and their families. However, empirical studies on the effects of FGC show mixed results, and often fail to explain these. In this article, we critically reflect under which conditions FGCs may or may not become successful, on the basis of a small-scale longitudinal research of four cases in which FGC was used, supplemented by analysis of research on FGC, interviews with social workers and observations of trainings of social workers who intend to apply FGC. Our data point to four co...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Deliberately Silenced and the Preferably Unheard —Participation, Power and Knowledge Creation in Social Work Learning, Doing, and Research
Echoes of the Arundhati Roy (2004) quote paraphrased in the title feel appropriate and applicable to the recent experiences in our profession in a range of ways. Observing meetings in a practice setting, a colleague notices that despite many discussions and apparent concern for the service users ’ wellbeing, no one has met with them recently or knows what they would like to see happen. I also think of a female colleague sending her children back to school following the ease of lockdown rules in the UK. She feels she can finally have time to catch up with writing and other work that she ha d to pause as she had to supervi...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Erratum to: ‘Private Family Arrangements’ for Children in Ireland: The Informal Grey Space In-Between State Care and the Family Home
The British Journal of Social Work (2021).https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab032 (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Service Worker Experiences with Direct and Indirect Violence When Engaged with Service Users
This study utilised a quantitative design to identify and measure aspects of the organisation that prevent client-engaged violence and support workers in building healthy and safe workplaces. Participants (n = 1,574) from various publicly administered social services departments were surveyed to assess the effect of ‘workload’ (workload quality); ‘supervisory dynamics’ (equality, involvement, support and attentiveness); ‘team dynamics’ (intrapersonal team functioning and interpersonal t eam functioning) and ‘workplace safety culture’ (workplace safety values) on direct and indirect experiences of client...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - April 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
