A Systems Model of Repeat Court-Ordered Removals
Responding to Child Protection Challenges Using a Systems Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10898253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Wise (0000-0003-2824-136X, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 2038-2060 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| 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/bcaa031 |
| OpenAlex | W3026348718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
Repeat removals, where parents lose successive infants and children to out-of-home care, is a systems problem requiring a systems approach to broaden our thinking and expand our choices for action. A transdisciplinary group of key stakeholders in Australia jointly constructed a causal loop diagram to bring forth the systemic structure underlying the issue and identify system conditions that need to be altered. Analysis of the causal loop diagram surfaced eight dynamic positive feedback loops which result in a self-reinforcing system. While the model reflects the understanding of a relatively small group and requires further testing, it adds to current conceptualisations of repeat removal by hypothesising systemic causes and offers new directions for prevention. Stakeholders homed in on stigmatised stereotypes of recurrent birth mothers and the child protection culture, practitioner decision-making, parent–practitioner interactions and parental participation in child protection case planning as ways of correcting against vicious feedback loops. A systems approach contributed useful insights into the problem of repeat removals and could productively be used in respect of a range of other complex child protection challenges
Action (physics) · Business · Causal loop diagram · Child protection · Computer security · Key (lock) · Process management · System dynamics · Systems thinking · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Computer Science · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
Parental experience of child protection intervention
Birth Parents and the Collateral Consequences of Court-ordered Child Removal
The impact of a child protection investigation
Using System Dynamics as an Evaluation Tool
Stereotypes, parents with intellectual disability and child protection
Children removed from home by court order
A critique of methods used to describe the overrepresentation of African Americans in the child welfare system
Dynamics that contribute to racial disproportionality and disparity
Maternal substance abuse and disrupted parenting
Negotiating stigma
Improving pregnancy outcomes among high-risk mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs
Partnership with Parents of Children in Care
Managing Loss and a Threatened Identity
Affect and Emotion in a Parent’s Engagement with Statutory Child-Protection Services
Connecting Events in Time to Identify a Hidden Population
Culture and stigma
Loss and regeneration
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |