Bringing Dignity to the Assessment of Safety for Children who Live with Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10894572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Alexander (0000-0002-8847-7799, NSW Department of Communities and Justice, corresponding author), Cathy Humphreys (0000-0001-8997-8993, The University of Melbourne), Sarah Wise (0000-0003-2824-136X, The University of Melbourne), Albert Zhou (0009-0007-9217-3329, NSW Department of Communities and Justice) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 3578-3598 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcab260 |
| OpenAlex | W4206361920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Fear dominates women and children’s experience of domestic violence. Fear of harm, and the consequences of others finding out, can mean mothers are reluctant to seek help. Ironically, these survival behaviours can be understood as non-protective by child protection practitioners. This article describes research undertaken in New South Wales (NSW) Australia to determine the impact on child protection practitioner perceptions of child safety when Response-Based Practice (RBP) questions are combined with the standard NSW Structured Decision Making (SDM) safety assessment. RBP reflects core social work values through questions that explore how victims respond to, resist and manage violence. A vignette experiment with a between-subjects design was used to compare child safety assessments by practitioners who watched an interview guided by SDM alone and practitioners who watched an interview using the combined ‘treatment’ (SDM+RBP) approach. Participants (N = 1,041) were randomly assigned to SDM and treatment groups. Participants who watched the treatment approach were significantly more likely to assess the mother as cooperative and protective and significantly less likely to indicate that the children would be taken from her care. Thus, the results demonstrate that understanding how women manage violence changes practitioner views about maternal protectiveness and child safety
Child protection · Dignity · Domestic violence · Harm · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Perception · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Vignette · Child Abuse and Trauma · Homelessness and Social Issues · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Common errors of reasoning in child protection work
Parental experience of child protection intervention
Risk and Safety Assessment in Child Welfare
The Concept of Ecological Validity
Islands of Safety
Domestic Violence, Children's Agency and Mother–Child Relationships
Small Acts of Living
Improving Child Protection by Integrating Research Evidence and Clinical Experience
Parental resistance and social worker skills
History repeating
Mothers, Domestic Violence, and Child Protection
Invisible Practices
We Live and Breathe Through Culture”
Practitioner Perspectives on Collaboration across Domestic Violence, Child Protection, and Family Law
Communities, care and domestic violence
When child abuse overlaps with domestic violence
Doing the right thing? (Re) Considering risk assessment and safety planning in child protection work with domestic violence cases
Continuities and discontinuities
Don’t Even Get Us Started on Social Workers’
Child Protection Practitioners and Decision-Making Tools
Social Worker Interventions in Situations of Domestic Violence
The assessment relationship
Now I see it, now I don't
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |