Parents' involvement in care order decisions
A cross‐country study of front‐line practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12570232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill D Berrick (0000-0002-5795-4206, Social Welfare Department), Jill Berrick (School of Social Welfare University of California Berkeley CA USA), Jonathan F Dickens (0000-0002-4189-0287, University of East Anglia), Jonathan Dickens (0000-0002-3723-8296, School of Social Work East Anglia University Norwich UK), Tarja Pösö (0000-0001-8695-7222, School of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Tampere Tampere Finland), Marit Skivenes (0000-0002-5326-6692, Department of Administration and Organization Theory University of Bergen Bergen Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 626-637 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-22 |
| 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.12277 |
| OpenAlex | W2286176693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article examines parents' involvement in care order decision‐making in four countries at one particular point in the care order process, namely, when the child protection worker discusses with the parents his or her considerations regarding child removal. The countries represent different child welfare systems with Norway and Finland categorized as ‘family service systems’ and the USA as a ‘child protection system’, with England somewhere in between. The focus is on whether the forms and intensity of involvement are different in these four countries and whether the system orientation towards family services or child protection influences practice in the social welfare agencies with parents. Involvement is studied in terms of providing information to parents, collecting information from parents and ensuring inclusion in the decision‐making processes. A vignette method is employed in a survey with 768 responses from child protection workers in four countries. The findings do not show a consistent pattern of difference regarding parental involvement in care order preparations that align with the type of child welfare system in which staff work. The goal in each child welfare system is to include parents, but the precise ways in which it is carried out (or not) vary. Methodological suggestions are given for further studies
Business · Child care · Child protection · Inclusion (mineral · Order (exchange · Political science · Service (business · Vignette · Welfare · Work (physics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work · Marketing
How involuntary child removal shapes parents’ everyday lives
Mental Health and Parenting Practices and Styles Among Parents Receiving Child Welfare Services in Norway
Breaking bad news
The Risk of Not Knowing—How Information Sharing Affects Parents’ Ability to Maintain and Develop Family Ties After a Child’s Removal from Parental Care
Family relatedness
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries
Interprofessional collaboration between residential child care and mental care practitioners
Wishes and feelings’
Parent–professional interviews in child protection
Collaborating with parents during intervention with parental agreement
Family involvement in child welfare services
Multi-professional work in child protection decision-making
Care order templates as institutional scripts in child protection
Who is involved in child protection investigations? The relationship between gender, ethnicity/migration background, and contacts between parents and caseworkers during investigations and assessments
The Quality of Government
Human Rights and Social Work
Child Protection Systems
Parental experience of child protection intervention
Children, Family and the State
Parents with Children in Foster Care — How Do They Perceive Their Contact with Social Workers
Family Involvement in Child Welfare Decision-Making
Client participation and outcomes of intensive family preservation services
Macro impacts on caseworker decision-making in child welfare
I am part of every decision’
The paradox of parental participation and legal representation in ‘edge of care’ meetings
The nature of relationships between orphans and their kinship carers in B otswana
Child welfare workers' views of fathers in risk assessment and planned interventions, a comparison between E nglish and N orwegian workers
Research Review
The formalized framework for decision-making in child protection care orders
Perspectives on Parenting Responsibility
Receiving mandated therapeutic services
Interviewing parents of children in care
Theoretical adherence to family centered practice
Understanding worker–parent engagement in child protection casework
Parental Participation in Child Protection Work
Child Welfare Practice in Organizational and Institutional Context
Understanding Habermas
Towards a Theory of Children's Participation
The Moral Rhetoric of Childhood
Between Facts and Norms
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |