What Is Vulnerability? Quebec Community Family Workers' Perceptions of Family Situations in Cases of Child Neglect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6417832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Savannah De Boer (0000-0002-4028-9262, Laboratoire de Psychologie, Cognition, Comportement, Communication (LP3C), Département de Psychologie Université Rennes 2 Rennes France), Carl Lacharité (0000-0002-1449-449X, Département de Psychologie Université du Québec à Trois‐Rivières Trois‐Rivières Canada), Karine Dubois‐comtoi (0000-0003-4009-9861, Département de Psychologie Université du Québec à Trois‐Rivières Trois‐Rivières Canada) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-443 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-29 |
| 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.13183 |
| OpenAlex | W4396534960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 47 |
Although vulnerability is a somewhat nebulous concept, the term is widely used in child protection, and child protection workers often refer to vulnerability when describing the situations of families they work with. Because perceiving families as vulnerable or as living in vulnerable conditions may impact interventions, it is important to know what child protection workers mean when they talk about vulnerability. To this end, we explored community family workers' conceptions of the vulnerability of families involved with Quebec's child protection system for reasons of child neglect. Thematic analyses of semistructured interviews with nine community family workers revealed two main components to their conceptions of vulnerability: (1) a distinction between vulnerability, viewed as an intrinsic characteristic of all human beings, and (2) a heightened vulnerability caused by the cumulative effect of lacking resources in several domains. We discuss the impact of these conceptions of vulnerability on community family workers' perceptions of families and of the child protection system
Child protection · Computer security · Developmental psychology · Neglect · Perception · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Vulnerability (computing · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |