Negotiating 'Professional Agency
Social Work and Decision-Making within the Ontario Child Welfare System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11344119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Parada (0000-0003-0213-3117, Toronto Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Lisa Barnoff (Western Michigan University), Brienne Coleman (Toronto Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-5096 • E-ISSN: 0191-5096 |
| Publisher | WMU Department of Occupational Therapy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15453/0191-5096.3293 |
| OpenAlex | W85007415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article explores how social work as a discipline has helped to negotiate professional agency in decision-making within the restructured child protection system. The narratives of child protection workers affirm that a restrictive climate does exist in child protection agencies and that it indeed shapes the way they make their decisions. This study uses institutional ethnography as the methodology for exploring the decision-making practices of child protection workers. Three forms of data collection were used: experience as data, documentation reviews and in-depth interviews
Agency (philosophy · Child protection · Documentation · Ethnography · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Work (physics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Black Social Workers in the Ontario Child Welfare System
Social workers as willful subjects
A Human Rights Analysis of a Risk Assessment Instrument in Child Welfare
Moral Distress and Privatisation
Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry
Vulnerable children's health as described in investigations of reported children
Navigations between regulations and gut instinct
Social Work Paradigms and Their Effect on Decision Making About Out-of-Home Placement
On the Front Lines
Child Welfare’s Decision-making Process in Cases of Disciplinary Violence
Constructing Family from a Social Work Perspective in Child Welfare
Approaches to assessment and intervention across four types of child and family welfare services
Examining decision-making tools and child welfare involvement among Black families in Ontario, Canada
Decision making at substantiation in cases involving racialized families
Substantiated Child Maltreatment
Factors influencing decision making about the placement of children in care
Use of evidence-based interventions in child welfare
Working social assemblages
Common errors of reasoning in child protection work
Professionals’ decision-making about out-of-home placements following instances of child abuse
Conceptual Practices Power
Parton, Howe and Postmodernity
Informed decisions in child welfare
Re-visioning risk assessment for human service decision making
Computational intelligence techniques for risk assessment and decision support
Decision making in child welfare
A Systems Approach to Investigating Child Abuse Deaths
Risk, Advanced Liberalism and Child Welfare
Child Welfare Practice in Organizational and Institutional Context
Risk, Morality, and Child Protection
Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |