Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway
ABSTRACTIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a major criminal, social and public health problem. As one effort to prevent IPV and intimate partner homicide, several countries have adopted legislation requiring professionals to disclose IPV to the authorities (commonly referred to as mandatory reporting). The child welfare service (CWS) is centrally positioned for detecting, reporting and preventing IPV, but there is limited empirical knowledge concerning how the service handles IPV cases or of social workers' awareness of mandatory reporting of IPV. Using qualitative interviews, we explore how CWS workers in Norway describe ...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - March 8, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Silje Louise Dahl,
Kjartan Leer ‐Salvesen,
Malene Øvrelid,
Solveig Karin Bø Vatnar Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Internet Impacts on Parent –Child Communication in Vietnamese Urban Families
ABSTRACTWith 72% of Vietnamese households using the Internet after Vietnam first had access in November 1997, the traditional culture of parent –child communication within families in particular has been significantly influenced by the arrival of this technology. This paper presents a mixed-method study that surveyed 464 parent–child dyads, conducted 30 in-depth interviews and 6 group discussions held in three major cities across Vietna m. The results demonstrate how the parents and their children use the Internet and recognize the influence of this technology on their communication. It is apparent that despite the ol...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - March 8, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Lan Thi Thai Nguyen,
Thi Kim Dung Le,
Van Cong Tran,
Duc Nam Nguyen,
Hong Kien Nguyen,
Duy Dung Le Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Embodied practice in a disembodied time: How the COVID ‐19 pandemic shaped direct work with children and young people
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions imposed in the UK had a significant impact on social work practice with children and young people. As has been widely reported, practitioners were deprived of multisensory information in their assessments and of opportunities to connect with children. In this article, we consider data from Scotland, created through interviews with practitioners during May 2021, a time of tentative optimism between periods of widespread lockdown. The Scottish policy context offers particular tensions and contrasts through which to understand how practice was impacted by physical distanc...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - March 7, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Heather Ellis,
Ariane Critchley Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana
ABSTRACTChild labour is a complex social problem worldwide, affecting the physical, moral and educational development of children. A cross sectional quantitative survey research design was used to assess child labour in quarrying activities of the Ga West Municipality, Ghana. The municipality was selected due to evidence in literature of children engaging in quarrying activities. The study examined child labour occurrence and intensity, the working condition of child labourers in the stone quarries; factors influencing child labour in quarrying activities; and the impact of quarrying activities on children. Data which were...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - March 4, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Daniella Delali Sedegah Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E ‐Records and Professional Interviews
ABSTRACTUnderstanding more about the discharge of care orders is vital —whether a care order remains in place has significant implications for children and their families and for local authorities. While there has been comprehensive research about the process and outcomes of care proceedings, much less is known about the discharge of care orders—particularly how, w hy and when care orders are ended and the differences between applications that are granted and those that are not. The present study combined data from an anonymized administrative data on discharge applications, a detailed analysis of children's e-records ...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - March 4, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Jo Staines,
Beth Stone,
Jessica Roy,
Gillian Macdonald Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Analysing bully ‐victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China
AbstractBullying is a pervasive public behaviour that raises significant global concerns, inflicting harm on bullies, victims, and bully-victims. This qualitative case study investigates bully-victim role formation through the lens of symbolic interactionism. Data were collected via interviews and observations with a Chinese adolescent boy identified as a bully-victim, by his family, teachers, and peers. Findings revealed the case subject experienced relational and physical victimization, while perpetrating financial, verbal, and physical bullying. Family violence, school exclusion, and an aggressive community culture shap...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 28, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Erlin He,
Han Hao,
Kunkun Pan,
Xiaoqiong Li,
Xun Zhao Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Improving the accuracy of social work judgements: A proof ‐of‐concept study of a training programme
AbstractChild and family social workers routinely make professional judgements involving significant legal and moral questions (e.g. whether a child has been abused) and more ‘everyday’ issues (e.g. will the child be re-referred again if we close the case now?) Yet the world is capricious, and we rarely know with certainty what is going to happen in future or the likely impact of our different choices. Given the consequences of their judgements and decisions, it is i mperative that social workers are provided with the best possible support. This paper reports a proof-of-concept study of a set of interventions to improv...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 20, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: David Wilkins Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Work and family conflicts, depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours: An interdependent approach
This study aims to investigate the relationships between work and family conflicts, specifically work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts, parental depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. This national survey study involved the participation of 830 families in mainland China, including fathers, mothers and adolescents. Fathers and mothers provided self-reports on their experiences of work-to-family conflicts, family-to-work conflicts and depressive symptoms. Meanwhile, adolescents reported their perceptions of coparenting conflict behaviours exhibited by both fathers and mot...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 19, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Yizhen Ren,
Aiyi Liu,
Shengqi Zou,
Jiefeng Ying,
Xinyi Wang,
Xinchun Wu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Reintegration of street ‐connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme
AbstractIn Kenya, the number of street-involved children continues to grow each decade, with most recent estimates as high as 250 000 to 300 000. Despite efforts by local government, nongovernmental organizations, and community-based organizations to address this problem, most children who receive services end up returning to the streets. Since 2021, Agape Children's Ministry has provided time-limited, crisis-oriented ser vices to families recently reintegrated through its Family Strengthening Programme (FSP). We conducted an exploratory programme evaluation of Agape's FSP to ascertain whether it is achieving the inte...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 16, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Johanna K. P. Greeson,
John R. Gyourko,
Sarah Wasch,
Christopher S. Page Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Whose benefactors? Whose beneficiaries? —Negotiating help at the intersection between the family and the state
AbstractSocial work is characterized as a helping profession. Consequently, the nature and purposes of social work revolve around concepts of help and helping. In this article, I explore what happens when the extended family network and friends are brought together by child welfare services to make decisions to help a child. Based on analyses of a single videotaped family group conference, this article offers insights into the challenges and complexities families face when dealing with the mandated task to devise a plan that meets the child's needs. By examining sequences of interaction where friends and family members dis...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 15, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Sabine Ellung J ørgensen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Adoptive parent linguistics: Links to adoptees' relationships with their birth mother
AbstractObjectiveThe study addressed whether specific linguistic variables used by adoptive parents were associated with ratings of the adoptee's relationship with their birth mothers.BackgroundParents transmit their beliefs and values to children through verbal and nonverbal communication. The ways in which adoptive parents discuss their child's adoption and birth family can influence the child's adoptive identity development and satisfaction with their adoption arrangements.MethodParticipants included mothers, fathers, and adolescents (M age = 15.7 years) in 177 adoptive families of children who were adopted domest...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 13, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Anna W. Wright,
Albert Y. H. Lo,
Hollee McGinnis,
Carine Leslie,
Harold D. Grotevant Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Navigating, being tricked, and blaming oneself —A meta‐synthesis of youth's experience of involvement in online child sexual abuse
This study aims to synthesize qualitative studies on youth's (12 –24 years of age) first-person experiences of OCSA. We conducted a systematic database search and included 16 studies. The meta-synthesis resulted in three meta-themes: (1) “Navigating in a digital world – feeling safe and understood,” (2) “Being lured, tricked, and caught up in online c hild sexual abuse,” and (3) “Facing the consequences – feeling powerless and blaming oneself.” Although the studies included most females, findings apply to all genders and across ages. The results highlight how online sexual engagement is a way to explore...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 8, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Line Indrevoll St änicke,
Gry Katrin Reiremo,
Sebastian Istad Scheie,
Reidar Schei Jessen,
Tine K. Jensen Tags: REVIEW Source Type: research
Developing a model for child participation in child welfare services
AbstractIn this article, we develop a model for child participation in child welfare services (CPC). Child participation has gained increasing attention in research, policy and practice in the last couple of decades. Two perspectives have concurrently moved this agenda forward —childhood sociology and children's rights—leading to an almost irrefutable understanding of children as social actors with independent rights. We integrate these perspectives in one model in our CPC model. We base the model on the rights-based Lundy model of child participation and develop it w ith theoretical insights from childhood sociology a...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 6, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Sofie Henze ‐Pedersen,
Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson Tags: REVIEW Source Type: research
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits
This study explored social workers' reasons to exclude children from conversations about contact visits. It applied a social constructivist approach, in which the dominant understandings of children —‘child constructions’—in the social workers' responses were identified and then used to discuss the concepts of ‘participation’ and ‘conversation’. Findings reveal that social workers' reasons to exclude children from conversations about contact visits align with prevailing notions of children as rights holders, as vulnerable and as mentally immature. This study suggests that broadening the concept of conversat...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 6, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Iselin Huseby ‐Lie,
Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik,
Hilde Anette Aamodt Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The relationship between resilience and parental behaviours: The moderating role of parent and child age
AbstractThe present study investigates the relationship between resilience and parental behaviours and examines the moderating role of parent and child age in this relationship. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with a sample of 204 parents of children aged 6 months to 12 years. The Resilience Assessment Scale and the Parenting Behaviours and Dimensions Questionnaire were used. The findings confirmed the existence of a positive relationship between parental resilience and desirable parental dimensions and a negative association with undesirable behav iours towards children. However, overall resilience...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - February 6, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Agnieszka Lasota,
Justyna Mr óz Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
