E Keddell
Biographic Data
| ID | 31814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Keddell |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Keddell |
| SIGNATURE | KEDDELL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7217-6561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Understanding police ‘reports of concern’ in child protection: Implications for decision-making, systems and data
Shifting Power at the Front Door: State–Community Decision-Making Partnerships in Child Protection
Inequities for Indigenous people in child protection systems are well established. One avenue for addressing these inequities is at the ‘front door’ of child protection, when reports are first made to statutory child protection services. This article reports on a formative evaluation of a shared decision-making forum in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand, where a community Māori organisation meets to make initial decisions about reports togethe…
If You Thought It Was Going to Make a Difference, You'd Do It Straight Away’: School Staff Decisions to Report to Child Protection
School staff make reports of concern to child protection agencies when they have concerns about child abuse and neglect. This decision has significant consequences for children, parents and communities, and for the data reports generate. Decisions occur within an ecological system context containing external, organisational, case and decision‐maker factors. This article reports on the findings of qualitative interviews with school staff in Aotear…
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland
Social work aspires to empowerment ideals, including taking a ‘non-expert’ position of professional curiosity, and validating the perspectives of people in contact with services. Yet in child protection, social workers are involved in practice that refutes the views and opinions of people and are positioned by their role as an identifier of abuse and risk manager. Social workers and people who are subject to child protection services can be locke…
Risk perceptions and experience in child protection decision-making: A comparative study of student social workers in Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand
Decision making in child protection is the product of interacting factors between workers, organizations, families, and macro social structures. Individual perceptions of risk, safety, and harm, as one piece of this complex puzzle, are important to understand. This article reports on a comparative study of social work students in two countries: Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand. Using a mixed methods survey and a staged vignette (in which the situat…
The heuristic divergence between community reporters and child protection agencies: Negotiating risk amidst shifting sands
Children enter the statutory part of ‘notify-investigate’ child protection systems via the reports of others, combined with acceptance by the statutory agency. This key nexus determines entry or deflection from statutory child protection services. To examine the decision reasoning and processes of community (non-governmental organisation) workers that underpin reports to statutory services. Participants are non-governmental organisation (NGO) wor…
Experiences of baby removal prevention: A collective case study of mothers and community-based workers
The removal of a baby at birth is a significant intervention in family life. Avoiding removal requires attention to all levels of the family social ecology. Utilising a collective case study approach, and a critical realist epistemology, this project explores the experiences of three women who have avoided removal, and their community-based workers. Key themes are the necessity of intensive, ecological and relational service provision; and the me…
Child protection inequalities for Pasifika children in Aotearoa New Zealand: Diverse realities
Child protection inequalities are population group differences in contact rates, experiences and outcomes of child protection systems. This article reports rates of Pasifika children's contact with the statutory child protection system at three outcomes: substantiation, having a family group conference, (FGC) or entering care (placement), and describes intersections between these outcomes and socio‐economic deprivation. Including all children res…
Recognising the embedded child in child protection: Children’s participation, inequalities and cultural capital
Children’s right to participation in child protection decision-making is supported by moral imperatives and international conventions. The fragmented implementation of this right reflects a conflicted discursive terrain that attempts to incorporate both children’s agency and their need for protection. This article uses two theoretical lenses to further examine this terrain: child welfare inequalities and cultural capital. These theories highlight…
Mechanisms of Inequity: The Impact of Instrumental Biases in the Child Protection System
The structural risk perspective conceptualizes the causes of inequities in child protection system contact as unequal exposure to the structural causes of child abuse risk, combined with biases in the responses of child welfare workers and reporters. This conceptual article proposes a third mechanism of inequity: instrumental biases. It is proposed that instrumental biases operate as a third group of mechanisms that inequitably increase the invol…
On Decision Variability in Child Protection: Respect, Interactive Universalism and Ethics of Care
This article conceptualises theories of ethics relevant to the recognised problem of decision variability in child protection. Within this field, social workers are faced with multiple ethical imperatives when making decisions about children’s care. They must respond to justice principles concerned with duties and consequences, as well as ethical obligations created by the relational and contextual elements of each case. Recent scholarship on dec…
A fight for legitimacy: Reflections on child protection reform, the reduction of baby removals, and child protection decision‐making in Aotearoa New Zealand
The rate of orders used to remove babies into the care of Oranga Tamariki reduced by more than half in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019–2020 as a result of rapid reform, prompted by a high profile media case known as the ‘Hawkes Bay case’. This case provoked social outrage, leading to media and public approbation, inquiries by state and Māori bodies, and advocacy from multiple organisations. Combined, these challenged the legitimacy of the child prot…
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research
The perspectives of community-based practitioners on preventing baby removals: Addressing legitimate and illegitimate factors
Exploring Peer Support as a Strategy to Reduce Self-Stigma for Marginalised Children of Parents with Mental Illness (Copmi)
Many children of parents with mental illness (COPMI) experience stigma, resulting in detrimental effects and the need for support. Peer support programmes are widespread interventions, commonly providing relational, psychological and educational support. Some evidence suggests that these programmes result in positive changes to COPMI experiences of self, peers and their families. This article adds to the evidence base, presenting findings from a …
Networked Decisions: Decision-Making Thresholds in Child Protection
Families are significantly affected by decisions made in the child protection context, yet decision outcomes differ even when cases are similar. Understanding the concepts, practices and processes of differentiation that push some cases over the threshold of key decision points, but not other similar cases, is crucial. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with child protection social workers from three site offices in Aotearoa New Zealand (inte…
Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice
This article examines how the term ‘disguised compliance’ first emerged and developed into the popular catchphrase that is used in practice today. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how language affects practice and how social workers draw on a predetermined concept to rationalise concerns relating to parental resistance. We contend that concepts such as disguised compliance are misleading as they do not improve social workers’ abiliti…
Ethnic inequalities in child welfare: The role of practitioner risk perceptions
Indigenous children have a long history of overrepresentation in child protection systems. This exploratory, mixed methods study examined practitioner perceptions of risk in response to client ethnic group ( n = 67). A staged online survey elicited responses to a blinded vignette. Half the sample received the vignette as a Pākehā (White) family and the other half as Māori (Indigenous). Apart from this, family descriptions were identical. Responde…
Child protection inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand: Social gradient and the ‘inverse intervention law’
Algorithmic Justice in Child Protection: Statistical Fairness, Social Justice and the Implications for Practice
Algorithmic tools are increasingly used in child protection decision-making. Fairness considerations of algorithmic tools usually focus on statistical fairness, but there are broader justice implications relating to the data used to construct source databases, and how algorithms are incorporated into complex sociotechnical decision-making contexts. This article explores how data that inform child protection algorithms are produced and relates thi…
Role type, risk perceptions and judgements in child welfare: A mixed methods vignette study
Outing the Elephants: Exploring a New Paradigm for Child Protection Social Work
This article sets out to trouble the psychologised and pathologising approach that has come to dominate child protection practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand and comparable societies. Within a neoliberal ideological frame, Governments deny the need to adjust markets, except in ways that remove protections from workers or specific vulnerable groups. In this context, social work is concerned with adjusting people to the discipline of the market. Within…
Inequalities and Child Protection System Contact in Aotearoa New Zealand: Developing a Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda
There is a growing movement to integrate conceptual tools from the health inequalities field into research that examines the relationship between inequalities and chances of child protection system contact. This article outlines the key concepts of an inequalities perspective, and discusses how these apply to inequalities in child protection in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Drawing on existing research, this article shows that while there is …
The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts: The construction of children in the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection reforms
Recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ). These reforms draw on two related discourses: vulnerability and social investment. Shaped by a neoliberal political context, these discourses influence constructions of children and parents. Children are constituted in individualistic ways; as vulnerable victims requiring intervention to optimise future functioning, dichotomised against …
Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand, written by Z.L. Rocha
Algorithmic Justice in Child Protection: Statistical Fairness, Social Justice and the Implications for Practice
Algorithmic tools are increasingly used in child protection decision-making. Fairness considerations of algorithmic tools usually focus on statistical fairness, but there are broader justice implications relating to the data used to construct source databases, and how algorithms are incorporated into complex sociotechnical decision-making contexts. This article explores how data that inform child protection algorithms are produced and relates thi…
Outing the Elephants: Exploring a New Paradigm for Child Protection Social Work
This article sets out to trouble the psychologised and pathologising approach that has come to dominate child protection practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand and comparable societies. Within a neoliberal ideological frame, Governments deny the need to adjust markets, except in ways that remove protections from workers or specific vulnerable groups. In this context, social work is concerned with adjusting people to the discipline of the market. Within…
The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: Child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool
The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country, including the use of a predictive risk model (PRM). This article explores the ethics of this strategy in a child welfare context. Tensions exist, including significant ethical problems such as use of information without consent, breaches of privacy and stigmatisation, wit…
Reasoning Processes in Child Protection Decision Making: Negotiating Moral Minefields and Risky Relationships
This paper investigates the reasoning processes of social workers in child protection social work as they make decisions. Within this interpretive process, they assign meaning to clients' behaviours in a context containing a multitude of competing discourses relating to the nature and cause of clients' problems. The study used a qualitative approach, specifically a critical incident framework. It asked workers to describe cases they felt ‘pleased…
Current Debates on Variability in Child Welfare Decision-Making: A Selected Literature Review
This article considers selected drivers of decision variability in child welfare decision-making and explores current debates in relation to these drivers. Covering the related influences of national orientation, risk and responsibility, inequality and poverty, evidence-based practice, constructions of abuse and its causes, domestic violence and cognitive processes, it discusses the literature in regards to how each of these influences decision v…
Theorising the signs of safety approach to child protection social work: Positioning, codes and power
Ethnic inequalities in child welfare: The role of practitioner risk perceptions
Indigenous children have a long history of overrepresentation in child protection systems. This exploratory, mixed methods study examined practitioner perceptions of risk in response to client ethnic group ( n = 67). A staged online survey elicited responses to a blinded vignette. Half the sample received the vignette as a Pākehā (White) family and the other half as Māori (Indigenous). Apart from this, family descriptions were identical. Responde…
The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts: The construction of children in the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection reforms
Recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ). These reforms draw on two related discourses: vulnerability and social investment. Shaped by a neoliberal political context, these discourses influence constructions of children and parents. Children are constituted in individualistic ways; as vulnerable victims requiring intervention to optimise future functioning, dichotomised against …
Child protection inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand: Social gradient and the ‘inverse intervention law’
Inequalities and Child Protection System Contact in Aotearoa New Zealand: Developing a Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda
There is a growing movement to integrate conceptual tools from the health inequalities field into research that examines the relationship between inequalities and chances of child protection system contact. This article outlines the key concepts of an inequalities perspective, and discusses how these apply to inequalities in child protection in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Drawing on existing research, this article shows that while there is …
Role type, risk perceptions and judgements in child welfare: A mixed methods vignette study
Networked Decisions: Decision-Making Thresholds in Child Protection
Families are significantly affected by decisions made in the child protection context, yet decision outcomes differ even when cases are similar. Understanding the concepts, practices and processes of differentiation that push some cases over the threshold of key decision points, but not other similar cases, is crucial. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with child protection social workers from three site offices in Aotearoa New Zealand (inte…
Informed outrage: Tackling shame and stigma in poverty education in social work
The experience of poverty as shameful is felt by some people living in poverty due to the internalisation of stigmatising neo-liberal discourses which construe poverty as the consequence of individual failings of effort, competence or morality. A critical response requires an analysis of poverty as primarily caused by structural factors, as without this critical perspective, social workers can become complicit with a responsibilisation agenda bas…
Weighing it up: Family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision‐making in A otearoa/ N ew Z ealand
Examining the concepts underpinning the reasoning processes of social worker's decision‐making provides important insights into how social work practice is undertaken. This paper examines one of the major discourses used by social workers in decision reasoning in a non‐governmental organization child protection context in A otearoa/ N ew Z ealand: family maintenance. This study found that family maintenance as a concept was strongly privileged by…
Mechanisms of Inequity: The Impact of Instrumental Biases in the Child Protection System
The structural risk perspective conceptualizes the causes of inequities in child protection system contact as unequal exposure to the structural causes of child abuse risk, combined with biases in the responses of child welfare workers and reporters. This conceptual article proposes a third mechanism of inequity: instrumental biases. It is proposed that instrumental biases operate as a third group of mechanisms that inequitably increase the invol…
Exploring Peer Support as a Strategy to Reduce Self-Stigma for Marginalised Children of Parents with Mental Illness (Copmi)
Many children of parents with mental illness (COPMI) experience stigma, resulting in detrimental effects and the need for support. Peer support programmes are widespread interventions, commonly providing relational, psychological and educational support. Some evidence suggests that these programmes result in positive changes to COPMI experiences of self, peers and their families. This article adds to the evidence base, presenting findings from a …
Narrative as Identity: Postmodernism, Multiple Ethnicities, and Narrative Practice Approaches in Social Work
This paper uses the experiences of those who claim more than one ethnic identity to highlight the shortcomings of cultural competence models that presume neat, bounded cultural translation from one generation to the next. Such conceptualizations of ethnic identity tend to pathologize those who embrace multiple ethnic identities, best understood as the improvisation of changeable narratives. This article uses examples from a qualitative study of p…
Pavlova and pineapple pie: Selected identity influences on Samoan‐Pakeha people in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper examines influences on the increasing numbers of those with one Pakeha parent and one Samoan parent in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It is based on a small, qualitative study and utilises a narrative approach. It describes selected influences at macro, meso, and micro levels of social structure as a framework for examining how this population view themselves and construct their identities. At the macro level, post‐colonial dynamics of requirin…
A fight for legitimacy: Reflections on child protection reform, the reduction of baby removals, and child protection decision‐making in Aotearoa New Zealand
The rate of orders used to remove babies into the care of Oranga Tamariki reduced by more than half in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019–2020 as a result of rapid reform, prompted by a high profile media case known as the ‘Hawkes Bay case’. This case provoked social outrage, leading to media and public approbation, inquiries by state and Māori bodies, and advocacy from multiple organisations. Combined, these challenged the legitimacy of the child prot…
The perspectives of community-based practitioners on preventing baby removals: Addressing legitimate and illegitimate factors
Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice
This article examines how the term ‘disguised compliance’ first emerged and developed into the popular catchphrase that is used in practice today. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how language affects practice and how social workers draw on a predetermined concept to rationalise concerns relating to parental resistance. We contend that concepts such as disguised compliance are misleading as they do not improve social workers’ abiliti…
A Constructionist Approach to the Use of Arts-Based Materials in Social Work Education: Making Connections Between Art and Life
Providing engaging, relevant, and motivating courses to teach students about interpersonal social work theories is an ongoing challenge. The educator's problem is to provide an environment in which students engage with theory in a way that enables them to apply it in practice situations and reflect critically on the ways theories are produced and interact with their own values and beliefs. This article outlines the ways arts-based materials (ABMs…
Recognising the embedded child in child protection: Children’s participation, inequalities and cultural capital
Children’s right to participation in child protection decision-making is supported by moral imperatives and international conventions. The fragmented implementation of this right reflects a conflicted discursive terrain that attempts to incorporate both children’s agency and their need for protection. This article uses two theoretical lenses to further examine this terrain: child welfare inequalities and cultural capital. These theories highlight…
Constructing Parental Problems: The Function of Mental Illness Discourses in a Child Welfare Context
Understanding how social workers and parental service users construct the meanings of parental problems in the child protection context is important, as ultimately this affects decision making. Using qualitative methods, this study elicited social workers' and parental service users' perceptions of decision reasoning and analysed them from a discursive constructionist perspective. By completing secondary analysis of social worker–parental service…
Commentary on: Why Do Pacific People with Multiple Ethnic Affiliations Have Poorer Subjective Wellbeing? Negative Ingroup Affect Mediates the Identity Tension Effect, Manuela & Sibley, 2012
Pavlova and pineapple pie: Selected identity influences on Samoan‐Pakeha people in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper examines influences on the increasing numbers of those with one Pakeha parent and one Samoan parent in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It is based on a small, qualitative study and utilises a narrative approach. It describes selected influences at macro, meso, and micro levels of social structure as a framework for examining how this population view themselves and construct their identities. At the macro level, post‐colonial dynamics of requirin…
Narrative as Identity: Postmodernism, Multiple Ethnicities, and Narrative Practice Approaches in Social Work
This paper uses the experiences of those who claim more than one ethnic identity to highlight the shortcomings of cultural competence models that presume neat, bounded cultural translation from one generation to the next. Such conceptualizations of ethnic identity tend to pathologize those who embrace multiple ethnic identities, best understood as the improvisation of changeable narratives. This article uses examples from a qualitative study of p…
A Constructionist Approach to the Use of Arts-Based Materials in Social Work Education: Making Connections Between Art and Life
Providing engaging, relevant, and motivating courses to teach students about interpersonal social work theories is an ongoing challenge. The educator's problem is to provide an environment in which students engage with theory in a way that enables them to apply it in practice situations and reflect critically on the ways theories are produced and interact with their own values and beliefs. This article outlines the ways arts-based materials (ABMs…
Reasoning Processes in Child Protection Decision Making: Negotiating Moral Minefields and Risky Relationships
This paper investigates the reasoning processes of social workers in child protection social work as they make decisions. Within this interpretive process, they assign meaning to clients' behaviours in a context containing a multitude of competing discourses relating to the nature and cause of clients' problems. The study used a qualitative approach, specifically a critical incident framework. It asked workers to describe cases they felt ‘pleased…
Commentary on: Why Do Pacific People with Multiple Ethnic Affiliations Have Poorer Subjective Wellbeing? Negative Ingroup Affect Mediates the Identity Tension Effect, Manuela & Sibley, 2012
Current Debates on Variability in Child Welfare Decision-Making: A Selected Literature Review
This article considers selected drivers of decision variability in child welfare decision-making and explores current debates in relation to these drivers. Covering the related influences of national orientation, risk and responsibility, inequality and poverty, evidence-based practice, constructions of abuse and its causes, domestic violence and cognitive processes, it discusses the literature in regards to how each of these influences decision v…
Weighing it up: Family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision‐making in A otearoa/ N ew Z ealand
Examining the concepts underpinning the reasoning processes of social worker's decision‐making provides important insights into how social work practice is undertaken. This paper examines one of the major discourses used by social workers in decision reasoning in a non‐governmental organization child protection context in A otearoa/ N ew Z ealand: family maintenance. This study found that family maintenance as a concept was strongly privileged by…
Theorising the signs of safety approach to child protection social work: Positioning, codes and power
The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: Child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool
The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country, including the use of a predictive risk model (PRM). This article explores the ethics of this strategy in a child welfare context. Tensions exist, including significant ethical problems such as use of information without consent, breaches of privacy and stigmatisation, wit…
Informed outrage: Tackling shame and stigma in poverty education in social work
The experience of poverty as shameful is felt by some people living in poverty due to the internalisation of stigmatising neo-liberal discourses which construe poverty as the consequence of individual failings of effort, competence or morality. A critical response requires an analysis of poverty as primarily caused by structural factors, as without this critical perspective, social workers can become complicit with a responsibilisation agenda bas…
Constructing Parental Problems: The Function of Mental Illness Discourses in a Child Welfare Context
Understanding how social workers and parental service users construct the meanings of parental problems in the child protection context is important, as ultimately this affects decision making. Using qualitative methods, this study elicited social workers' and parental service users' perceptions of decision reasoning and analysed them from a discursive constructionist perspective. By completing secondary analysis of social worker–parental service…
Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand, written by Z.L. Rocha
Role type, risk perceptions and judgements in child welfare: A mixed methods vignette study
Outing the Elephants: Exploring a New Paradigm for Child Protection Social Work
This article sets out to trouble the psychologised and pathologising approach that has come to dominate child protection practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand and comparable societies. Within a neoliberal ideological frame, Governments deny the need to adjust markets, except in ways that remove protections from workers or specific vulnerable groups. In this context, social work is concerned with adjusting people to the discipline of the market. Within…
Inequalities and Child Protection System Contact in Aotearoa New Zealand: Developing a Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda
There is a growing movement to integrate conceptual tools from the health inequalities field into research that examines the relationship between inequalities and chances of child protection system contact. This article outlines the key concepts of an inequalities perspective, and discusses how these apply to inequalities in child protection in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Drawing on existing research, this article shows that while there is …
The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts: The construction of children in the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection reforms
Recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ). These reforms draw on two related discourses: vulnerability and social investment. Shaped by a neoliberal political context, these discourses influence constructions of children and parents. Children are constituted in individualistic ways; as vulnerable victims requiring intervention to optimise future functioning, dichotomised against …
Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice
This article examines how the term ‘disguised compliance’ first emerged and developed into the popular catchphrase that is used in practice today. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how language affects practice and how social workers draw on a predetermined concept to rationalise concerns relating to parental resistance. We contend that concepts such as disguised compliance are misleading as they do not improve social workers’ abiliti…
Ethnic inequalities in child welfare: The role of practitioner risk perceptions
Indigenous children have a long history of overrepresentation in child protection systems. This exploratory, mixed methods study examined practitioner perceptions of risk in response to client ethnic group ( n = 67). A staged online survey elicited responses to a blinded vignette. Half the sample received the vignette as a Pākehā (White) family and the other half as Māori (Indigenous). Apart from this, family descriptions were identical. Responde…
Child protection inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand: Social gradient and the ‘inverse intervention law’
Algorithmic Justice in Child Protection: Statistical Fairness, Social Justice and the Implications for Practice
Algorithmic tools are increasingly used in child protection decision-making. Fairness considerations of algorithmic tools usually focus on statistical fairness, but there are broader justice implications relating to the data used to construct source databases, and how algorithms are incorporated into complex sociotechnical decision-making contexts. This article explores how data that inform child protection algorithms are produced and relates thi…
Networked Decisions: Decision-Making Thresholds in Child Protection
Families are significantly affected by decisions made in the child protection context, yet decision outcomes differ even when cases are similar. Understanding the concepts, practices and processes of differentiation that push some cases over the threshold of key decision points, but not other similar cases, is crucial. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with child protection social workers from three site offices in Aotearoa New Zealand (inte…
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research
The perspectives of community-based practitioners on preventing baby removals: Addressing legitimate and illegitimate factors
Exploring Peer Support as a Strategy to Reduce Self-Stigma for Marginalised Children of Parents with Mental Illness (Copmi)
Many children of parents with mental illness (COPMI) experience stigma, resulting in detrimental effects and the need for support. Peer support programmes are widespread interventions, commonly providing relational, psychological and educational support. Some evidence suggests that these programmes result in positive changes to COPMI experiences of self, peers and their families. This article adds to the evidence base, presenting findings from a …
Mechanisms of Inequity: The Impact of Instrumental Biases in the Child Protection System
The structural risk perspective conceptualizes the causes of inequities in child protection system contact as unequal exposure to the structural causes of child abuse risk, combined with biases in the responses of child welfare workers and reporters. This conceptual article proposes a third mechanism of inequity: instrumental biases. It is proposed that instrumental biases operate as a third group of mechanisms that inequitably increase the invol…
Child Abuse and Trauma (28 works) · Political science (28 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Law (21 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (19 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (19 works) · Child protection (18 works) · Law (18 works)