Maternal Intellectual Disability and Infant Neglect
Child Welfare Risk Assessments in Norway, England and California, USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10898016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Øyvind S Tefre (Høgskolen i Bergen), Øyvind Tefre (University of Bergen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 2014-2031 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| 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/bcw148 |
| OpenAlex | W2536852003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 34 |
This paper examines how a sample of 297 child welfare workers in Norway, England and the state of California in the USA assess risk based on a vignette that combines parent intellectual disability and infant neglect. The study combines fixed-choice and open-ended questions. Workers first attach a risk score to the case and then explain in their own words the reasons behind their assessment. Key findings show that workers across all countries agree that this is a high-risk case. However, reasons behind the assessments vary across countries. Californians display a greater range and more uniform reasoning compared to the English and Norwegians, and differ in their concern with mother’s cognitive functioning, and child age and health. English and Norwegians are generally more similar, but differ on attention to social and environmental factors and attention to the mother’s cognitive functioning. I discuss these findings in relation to research on parental intellectual disability, child welfare orientation and familiarity with assessment tools. The study supports existing research on parental intellectual disability in the child welfare system. I argue that both child welfare orientation and assessment tools are important to understand these differences in reasoning
Borderline intellectual functioning · Cognition · Cognitive skill · Developmental psychology · Intellectual disability · Neglect · Political science · Psychiatry · Vignette · Welfare · Child Abuse and Trauma · Family Support in Illness · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The state of the research on parents with disabilities’ involvement in the child protection system
Embracing risk
Risks and representations
The Politics of Child Protection
Child Protection Systems
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies
Professional Discretion and Accountability in the Welfare State
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Context‐contingent decision‐making in child protection practice
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Adoption in the child welfare system — A cross-country analysis of child welfare workers' recommendations for or against adoption
Systemic differences in views on risk
The relative validity of actuarial- and consensus-based risk assessment systems
Assessment Frameworks
Child Protection Practitioners and Decision-Making Tools
Temporal Discrimination and Parents with Learning Difficulties in the Child Protection System
Decision Making in Social Work with Families and Children
See the Practitioner, See the Child
The Descriptive Tyranny of the Common Assessment Framework
Decision-Making Tools and Their Influence on Caseworkers' Room for Discretion
| Citations per year | 1.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |