Carolus Van Nijnatten
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3674565 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carolus Van Nijnatten |
| NOMBRES | Carolus |
| APELLIDO | Van Nijnatten |
| FIRMA | VAN NIJNATTEN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Utrecht University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Showing one’s card’
Communication between probation officers and juvenile offenders is essential, clarifying the nature and cause of possible disorders and providing insight into the chances of recidivism and/or recovery. Forensic social work, however, is complicated as it is both oriented toward collecting information for the court (forensic aims) and aimed at helping the juvenile’s improvement (social work aims). This paper examines two unique cases of probation o…
Understanding Decision-Making and Decision Difficulty in Women With an Unintended Pregnancy in the Netherlands
Previous research indicates that a considerable number of women with an unintended pregnancy experience difficulty deciding about continuing or terminating the pregnancy. We examined the decision-making processes of women who experienced high decision difficulty and women who experienced little decision difficulty, to gain insight in the factors that contribute to experienced decision difficulty. Sixty-nine women who had an abortion, and 40 women…
Constructing familyness
Making a Case for Client Insistence in Social Work Interaction
It has been argued that the goals of the institution can shape the talk therein. What happens when a client consistently invokes topics and role identities that are outside the parameters of the institution, insisting on his or her own goals and gaining and maintaining a control of the floor usually expected of practitioners? Client power is often characterized as resistance to the practitioner or the institution. However, we argue that at times …
Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions”
The Dutch child protection system has been the target of harsh criticism in recent decades. The legitimacy of child protection services seems to have eroded. In this article, we analyze this changing legitimacy of child protection against the background of declining parental authority and in relation to the disappearance of positive pedagogical ideologies and the mainly bureaucratic response of child protection agencies. Two recent inquiries in t…
The role of play activities in facilitating child participation in psychotherapy
In this double case study of child psychotherapy, we demonstrate the positive effect of children’s involvement in play activities on their verbal expression of inner emotions and cognitions. Discourse analysis of therapy sessions complemented with the therapist’s reflections show that children who have difficulty in verbalizing hard feelings and cognitions gain control of the communicative situation by getting involved in playful activities. Ther…
Downgrading as a counterstrategy
Child welfare conversations in cases of suspected sexual child abuse are often slow and complex processes in which professionals and clients proceed cautiously. These conversations may best be considered as negotiations between professionals aiming at classifying clients in or out of problem categories, and clients distancing themselves from these categories or downgrading them. In a case study of a conversation between a child welfare worker and…
Professional conversations with children in divorce-related child welfare inquiries
Over the last few decades, the role of children in conversations about post-divorce arrangements has become more prominent. Children are approached as active participants in the (post-)divorce process rather than just victims of matrimonial and post-matrimonial discord. In accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have the right to be informed about the procedures and are free to express their opinions. The focus of t…
Assessing and displaying suitability for adoptive parenthood
In this study we examine how suitability for adoptive parenthood is assessed and displayed in interactions between social workers and prospective adoptive parents. In particular, we have analyzed relationship questions that are put to couples with and without an observation from the social worker. The answers are featured as very precise, stressing the positive aspects of the relationship but avoiding sainthood, and accompanied with examples that…
Negotiating dilemmas in the practices of street‐level welfare work
Hjörne E, Juhila K, van Nijnatten C. Negotiating dilemmas in the practices of street‐level welfare work Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 303–309 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. The theme of this mini‐symposium is based on the core ideas of two influential books published about 30 years ago, namely Michael Lipsky's Street‐Level Bureaucracy – Dilemmas of the Individua…
How Social Workers Start to Assess the Suitability of Prospective Adoptive Parents
This article takes a close look at the openings of 12 different Dutch adoption assessment sessions. In the first of a series of 4 adoption assessment sessions, social workers perform different actions that are analyzed in detail. The overall focus is on how contact and relationships are established in the openings, and how the social workers work toward the first topic. We found that adoption assessment is a non-self-evident occasion, and this is…
Assessing suitability for adoptive parenthood
Social workers with the Dutch Child Protection Board use hypothetical questions as a means to assess the suitability of prospective adoptive parents for adoption. In particular, while talking about the future, prospective adoptive parents are assessed on their educational skills, knowledge and awareness with regard to adoption-specific problems. In our study we analysed the preliminary conversational work that has to be done in order to pose a hy…
Complaining or Not Complaining? Reasoning about Conflicts in Juvenile Inhabitants of Residential Care
In Dutch law, adolescents from 12 years of age in residential care have the right to file a complaint. In order to study their cognitive competencies in doing so, 52 boys and 15 girls were interviewed. Most of them turned out to judge acts that would threaten their physical and mental integrity as ‘complaintworthy’. Fourteen of the adolescents turned out to have had a physical encounter with a member of staff. Their views on the encounter tended …
Child Protection and the Conception of Parental Responsibility
The legal discourse on child protection that is characterized by the normalization-moralization paradigm focuses more on society's response to parental failure than on the predicament of the child. Findings from texts of legal discourse in Israel and in Holland portray an alliance between the respective legal systems and an epistemology of normality with regard to parenting that thereby turns normality into normalization. Both sets of texts are g…
Transforming family positions
In a discourse and conversational analysis of a Dutch family supervision order, the transformations in family positions are examined. The parents in this case consider their son's drug addiction to be an individual problem. The family guardian succeeds in convincing them that it is a problem which concerns all the family rather than merely a personal issue for their son. By combining a positive and supportive attitude towards the parents with an …
Children of Uxoricide
When children are involved in the murder of one parent by the other, their lives are turned-upside down. They are immediately confronted with police and court interventions and by child welfare decisions. This article looks at the policy of the Dutch Child Protection Board in such cases. We consider the legal arrangements made by the Board for dealing with the child's future residence and any special needs. We also consider the ways in which soci…
The legal management of (social) parenthood
The Dutch adoption law of 1956 enabled Dutch family policy to re-locate some children from an ‘immoral’ life with their unmarried mother to a ‘normal’ family life. However, since the normalization and social acceptance of ‘families with a difference’ in the 1980s, the supply of the children of Dutch nationals for adoption has fallen. Alongside this, there has remained a consistent demand from childless couples to adopt. This helps to explain a ri…
The Construction of Parental Authority and Co-operation in Reports to the Dutch Court
Authority relations in families and child welfare in the Netherlands and England
In recent years western States have experienced gradual changes in relations of authority with advances in the social and the legal status both of subordinate groups and of individuals. This has been the case in relations between State and citizens, between state institutions and citizens, between parents and children and between child protection agencies and families in trouble. These relationships have become more equal and more democratic. Tee…
Negotiating dilemmas in the practices of street‐level welfare work
Hjörne E, Juhila K, van Nijnatten C. Negotiating dilemmas in the practices of street‐level welfare work Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 303–309 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. The theme of this mini‐symposium is based on the core ideas of two influential books published about 30 years ago, namely Michael Lipsky's Street‐Level Bureaucracy – Dilemmas of the Individua…
Professional conversations with children in divorce-related child welfare inquiries
Over the last few decades, the role of children in conversations about post-divorce arrangements has become more prominent. Children are approached as active participants in the (post-)divorce process rather than just victims of matrimonial and post-matrimonial discord. In accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have the right to be informed about the procedures and are free to express their opinions. The focus of t…
Assessing suitability for adoptive parenthood
Social workers with the Dutch Child Protection Board use hypothetical questions as a means to assess the suitability of prospective adoptive parents for adoption. In particular, while talking about the future, prospective adoptive parents are assessed on their educational skills, knowledge and awareness with regard to adoption-specific problems. In our study we analysed the preliminary conversational work that has to be done in order to pose a hy…
Understanding Decision-Making and Decision Difficulty in Women With an Unintended Pregnancy in the Netherlands
Previous research indicates that a considerable number of women with an unintended pregnancy experience difficulty deciding about continuing or terminating the pregnancy. We examined the decision-making processes of women who experienced high decision difficulty and women who experienced little decision difficulty, to gain insight in the factors that contribute to experienced decision difficulty. Sixty-nine women who had an abortion, and 40 women…
Making a Case for Client Insistence in Social Work Interaction
It has been argued that the goals of the institution can shape the talk therein. What happens when a client consistently invokes topics and role identities that are outside the parameters of the institution, insisting on his or her own goals and gaining and maintaining a control of the floor usually expected of practitioners? Client power is often characterized as resistance to the practitioner or the institution. However, we argue that at times …
Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions”
The Dutch child protection system has been the target of harsh criticism in recent decades. The legitimacy of child protection services seems to have eroded. In this article, we analyze this changing legitimacy of child protection against the background of declining parental authority and in relation to the disappearance of positive pedagogical ideologies and the mainly bureaucratic response of child protection agencies. Two recent inquiries in t…
Downgrading as a counterstrategy
Child welfare conversations in cases of suspected sexual child abuse are often slow and complex processes in which professionals and clients proceed cautiously. These conversations may best be considered as negotiations between professionals aiming at classifying clients in or out of problem categories, and clients distancing themselves from these categories or downgrading them. In a case study of a conversation between a child welfare worker and…
How Social Workers Start to Assess the Suitability of Prospective Adoptive Parents
This article takes a close look at the openings of 12 different Dutch adoption assessment sessions. In the first of a series of 4 adoption assessment sessions, social workers perform different actions that are analyzed in detail. The overall focus is on how contact and relationships are established in the openings, and how the social workers work toward the first topic. We found that adoption assessment is a non-self-evident occasion, and this is…
Children of Uxoricide
When children are involved in the murder of one parent by the other, their lives are turned-upside down. They are immediately confronted with police and court interventions and by child welfare decisions. This article looks at the policy of the Dutch Child Protection Board in such cases. We consider the legal arrangements made by the Board for dealing with the child's future residence and any special needs. We also consider the ways in which soci…
The Construction of Parental Authority and Co-operation in Reports to the Dutch Court
Authority relations in families and child welfare in the Netherlands and England
In recent years western States have experienced gradual changes in relations of authority with advances in the social and the legal status both of subordinate groups and of individuals. This has been the case in relations between State and citizens, between state institutions and citizens, between parents and children and between child protection agencies and families in trouble. These relationships have become more equal and more democratic. Tee…
Authority relations in families and child welfare in the Netherlands and England
In recent years western States have experienced gradual changes in relations of authority with advances in the social and the legal status both of subordinate groups and of individuals. This has been the case in relations between State and citizens, between state institutions and citizens, between parents and children and between child protection agencies and families in trouble. These relationships have become more equal and more democratic. Tee…
The Construction of Parental Authority and Co-operation in Reports to the Dutch Court
The legal management of (social) parenthood
The Dutch adoption law of 1956 enabled Dutch family policy to re-locate some children from an ‘immoral’ life with their unmarried mother to a ‘normal’ family life. However, since the normalization and social acceptance of ‘families with a difference’ in the 1980s, the supply of the children of Dutch nationals for adoption has fallen. Alongside this, there has remained a consistent demand from childless couples to adopt. This helps to explain a ri…
Children of Uxoricide
When children are involved in the murder of one parent by the other, their lives are turned-upside down. They are immediately confronted with police and court interventions and by child welfare decisions. This article looks at the policy of the Dutch Child Protection Board in such cases. We consider the legal arrangements made by the Board for dealing with the child's future residence and any special needs. We also consider the ways in which soci…
Child Protection and the Conception of Parental Responsibility
The legal discourse on child protection that is characterized by the normalization-moralization paradigm focuses more on society's response to parental failure than on the predicament of the child. Findings from texts of legal discourse in Israel and in Holland portray an alliance between the respective legal systems and an epistemology of normality with regard to parenting that thereby turns normality into normalization. Both sets of texts are g…
Transforming family positions
In a discourse and conversational analysis of a Dutch family supervision order, the transformations in family positions are examined. The parents in this case consider their son's drug addiction to be an individual problem. The family guardian succeeds in convincing them that it is a problem which concerns all the family rather than merely a personal issue for their son. By combining a positive and supportive attitude towards the parents with an …
Complaining or Not Complaining? Reasoning about Conflicts in Juvenile Inhabitants of Residential Care
In Dutch law, adolescents from 12 years of age in residential care have the right to file a complaint. In order to study their cognitive competencies in doing so, 52 boys and 15 girls were interviewed. Most of them turned out to judge acts that would threaten their physical and mental integrity as ‘complaintworthy’. Fourteen of the adolescents turned out to have had a physical encounter with a member of staff. Their views on the encounter tended …
Assessing suitability for adoptive parenthood
Social workers with the Dutch Child Protection Board use hypothetical questions as a means to assess the suitability of prospective adoptive parents for adoption. In particular, while talking about the future, prospective adoptive parents are assessed on their educational skills, knowledge and awareness with regard to adoption-specific problems. In our study we analysed the preliminary conversational work that has to be done in order to pose a hy…
How Social Workers Start to Assess the Suitability of Prospective Adoptive Parents
This article takes a close look at the openings of 12 different Dutch adoption assessment sessions. In the first of a series of 4 adoption assessment sessions, social workers perform different actions that are analyzed in detail. The overall focus is on how contact and relationships are established in the openings, and how the social workers work toward the first topic. We found that adoption assessment is a non-self-evident occasion, and this is…
Assessing and displaying suitability for adoptive parenthood
In this study we examine how suitability for adoptive parenthood is assessed and displayed in interactions between social workers and prospective adoptive parents. In particular, we have analyzed relationship questions that are put to couples with and without an observation from the social worker. The answers are featured as very precise, stressing the positive aspects of the relationship but avoiding sainthood, and accompanied with examples that…
Negotiating dilemmas in the practices of street‐level welfare work
Hjörne E, Juhila K, van Nijnatten C. Negotiating dilemmas in the practices of street‐level welfare work Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 303–309 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. The theme of this mini‐symposium is based on the core ideas of two influential books published about 30 years ago, namely Michael Lipsky's Street‐Level Bureaucracy – Dilemmas of the Individua…
Downgrading as a counterstrategy
Child welfare conversations in cases of suspected sexual child abuse are often slow and complex processes in which professionals and clients proceed cautiously. These conversations may best be considered as negotiations between professionals aiming at classifying clients in or out of problem categories, and clients distancing themselves from these categories or downgrading them. In a case study of a conversation between a child welfare worker and…
Professional conversations with children in divorce-related child welfare inquiries
Over the last few decades, the role of children in conversations about post-divorce arrangements has become more prominent. Children are approached as active participants in the (post-)divorce process rather than just victims of matrimonial and post-matrimonial discord. In accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have the right to be informed about the procedures and are free to express their opinions. The focus of t…
The role of play activities in facilitating child participation in psychotherapy
In this double case study of child psychotherapy, we demonstrate the positive effect of children’s involvement in play activities on their verbal expression of inner emotions and cognitions. Discourse analysis of therapy sessions complemented with the therapist’s reflections show that children who have difficulty in verbalizing hard feelings and cognitions gain control of the communicative situation by getting involved in playful activities. Ther…
Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions”
The Dutch child protection system has been the target of harsh criticism in recent decades. The legitimacy of child protection services seems to have eroded. In this article, we analyze this changing legitimacy of child protection against the background of declining parental authority and in relation to the disappearance of positive pedagogical ideologies and the mainly bureaucratic response of child protection agencies. Two recent inquiries in t…
Making a Case for Client Insistence in Social Work Interaction
It has been argued that the goals of the institution can shape the talk therein. What happens when a client consistently invokes topics and role identities that are outside the parameters of the institution, insisting on his or her own goals and gaining and maintaining a control of the floor usually expected of practitioners? Client power is often characterized as resistance to the practitioner or the institution. However, we argue that at times …
Constructing familyness
Showing one’s card’
Communication between probation officers and juvenile offenders is essential, clarifying the nature and cause of possible disorders and providing insight into the chances of recidivism and/or recovery. Forensic social work, however, is complicated as it is both oriented toward collecting information for the court (forensic aims) and aimed at helping the juvenile’s improvement (social work aims). This paper examines two unique cases of probation o…
Understanding Decision-Making and Decision Difficulty in Women With an Unintended Pregnancy in the Netherlands
Previous research indicates that a considerable number of women with an unintended pregnancy experience difficulty deciding about continuing or terminating the pregnancy. We examined the decision-making processes of women who experienced high decision difficulty and women who experienced little decision difficulty, to gain insight in the factors that contribute to experienced decision difficulty. Sixty-nine women who had an abortion, and 40 women…
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