Laura Biggart
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Biggart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Biggart |
| SIGNATURE | BIGGART L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1233-9787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study
Teams help mitigate emotional demands in high-stake professions, like social work. Providing a secure base fosters trust, giving individuals confidence to work competently and provide effective care for service users. The Team as Secure Base model (TASB) proposes that team availability, reliability and sensitivity promote reassuring internal mental representations that the team can be supportive in adversity. Creating secure base teams is of inte…
‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’
There is recognition that teams act as a locus for the sensemaking activity that underpins social workers’ judgement. Research has highlighted that teams also provide emotional support for practitioners. Although sensemaking involves emotional and social processes, there has been limited examination of how emotional support in teams interacts with sensemaking. This article uses the Team as Secure Base (TASB) model as a framework for presenting fi…
Navigating risk
The criminalization of young women in care remains an important practice and policy issue in England despite 2018 national guidance and the subsequent development of local authority protocols to reduce the criminalization of care‐experienced young people. This paper contributes to the emerging research on young women whose behaviour challenges professionals, through secondary analysis of case file data and narrative interviews with 24 care‐experi…
The team as a secure base revisited
Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated increased remote working, social workers have needed to maximise their use of virtual networks and navigate new ways of connecting with colleagues. This study aims to examine the extent to which social work teams can function as a s…
The team as a secure base
Looked after children and offending
Effects of Professional Experience on Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments
This study is a collaboration between social work and psychology academics, using a quasi-experimental technique to explore the effect of experience, along with moderating cognitive, emotive and demographic factors, on risk judgements by social workers, compared with judgements made by social work students. Participants (forty social workers from two authorities; 105 students from two universities) assessed vignettes of cases where child maltreat…
Professional foster carer and committed parent
In the literature on work–family balance, role and boundary issues are commonly discussed in relation to parents who work outside of the home. Work and family are considered as two different spheres of activity, with different role identities and cultural meanings. For foster carers, however, in very significant ways, their family is their work and their work is their family – so roles are not so clearly separated and boundaries are not so clearl…
Professional foster carer and committed parent
In the literature on work–family balance, role and boundary issues are commonly discussed in relation to parents who work outside of the home. Work and family are considered as two different spheres of activity, with different role identities and cultural meanings. For foster carers, however, in very significant ways, their family is their work and their work is their family – so roles are not so clearly separated and boundaries are not so clearl…
The team as a secure base revisited
Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated increased remote working, social workers have needed to maximise their use of virtual networks and navigate new ways of connecting with colleagues. This study aims to examine the extent to which social work teams can function as a s…
The team as a secure base
Effects of Professional Experience on Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments
This study is a collaboration between social work and psychology academics, using a quasi-experimental technique to explore the effect of experience, along with moderating cognitive, emotive and demographic factors, on risk judgements by social workers, compared with judgements made by social work students. Participants (forty social workers from two authorities; 105 students from two universities) assessed vignettes of cases where child maltreat…
Navigating risk
The criminalization of young women in care remains an important practice and policy issue in England despite 2018 national guidance and the subsequent development of local authority protocols to reduce the criminalization of care‐experienced young people. This paper contributes to the emerging research on young women whose behaviour challenges professionals, through secondary analysis of case file data and narrative interviews with 24 care‐experi…
Professional foster carer and committed parent
In the literature on work–family balance, role and boundary issues are commonly discussed in relation to parents who work outside of the home. Work and family are considered as two different spheres of activity, with different role identities and cultural meanings. For foster carers, however, in very significant ways, their family is their work and their work is their family – so roles are not so clearly separated and boundaries are not so clearl…
Looked after children and offending
Effects of Professional Experience on Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments
This study is a collaboration between social work and psychology academics, using a quasi-experimental technique to explore the effect of experience, along with moderating cognitive, emotive and demographic factors, on risk judgements by social workers, compared with judgements made by social work students. Participants (forty social workers from two authorities; 105 students from two universities) assessed vignettes of cases where child maltreat…
The team as a secure base
The team as a secure base revisited
Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated increased remote working, social workers have needed to maximise their use of virtual networks and navigate new ways of connecting with colleagues. This study aims to examine the extent to which social work teams can function as a s…
‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’
There is recognition that teams act as a locus for the sensemaking activity that underpins social workers’ judgement. Research has highlighted that teams also provide emotional support for practitioners. Although sensemaking involves emotional and social processes, there has been limited examination of how emotional support in teams interacts with sensemaking. This article uses the Team as Secure Base (TASB) model as a framework for presenting fi…
Navigating risk
The criminalization of young women in care remains an important practice and policy issue in England despite 2018 national guidance and the subsequent development of local authority protocols to reduce the criminalization of care‐experienced young people. This paper contributes to the emerging research on young women whose behaviour challenges professionals, through secondary analysis of case file data and narrative interviews with 24 care‐experi…
First-stage development of a Team as Secure Base questionnaire using a Delphi study
Teams help mitigate emotional demands in high-stake professions, like social work. Providing a secure base fosters trust, giving individuals confidence to work competently and provide effective care for service users. The Team as Secure Base model (TASB) proposes that team availability, reliability and sensitivity promote reassuring internal mental representations that the team can be supportive in adversity. Creating secure base teams is of inte…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychological resilience (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works)