The home visit in child protection social work
Emotion as resource and risk for professional judgement and practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12569887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Cook (0000-0002-4459-2592, School of Social Work University of East Anglia Norwich UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-26 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Child & Family Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-7500 • E-ISSN: 1365-2206 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cfs.12647 |
| OpenAlex | W2921679227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article conceptualises the role of emotion in social work home visits. It draws on findings from a qualitative study of initial child protection home visits in the United Kingdom. The research used narrative interviews and focus groups to examine how emotions arising from visits were registered in social workers' narratives. These visits were often challenging; social workers needed to manage their own emotions and those of the family, while at the same time investigating concerns and assessing need. This article identifies seven key emotional experiences associated with the home visit from the perspective of the social worker: going into the unknown; being intrusive; being disliked; fear of harm to self; fear of causing or allowing harm; pain, disgust, and distress; and “absorbing” emotion. It is argued that emotion plays a central role in home visiting and that professionals' emotional responses have important implications for the way they make sense of, and manage, home visits. Emotion is therefore conceptualized as both a potential resource and risk for social workers' professional judgement and practice
Child protection · Developmental psychology · Disgust · Distress · Emotion work · Focus group · Harm · Judgement · Narrative · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
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| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |