scholarly journals Caregiver involvement in behavioural health services in the context of child welfare service referrals: a qualitative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 648-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Pérez Jolles ◽  
Jodon Anne Jodi Flick ◽  
Rebecca Wells ◽  
Emmeline Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Child Welfare Service ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
Behavioural Health ◽  
Caregiver Involvement

Child Welfare Service Plan Compliance: Perceptions of Parents and Caseworkers

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Case Record ◽  
Child Welfare Service ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Service Plan ◽  
Child Welfare Outcomes

Child welfare practice and decision making center around service plans, but few recent studies have focused specifically on service plans and their use in routine child welfare settings. This qualitative study involving interviews, case record reviews, and court observations illuminates parent and caseworker perceptions about the meaning of service plans and service plan compliance, and about influences on compliance. Parents and caseworkers similarly perceive service plans as directives and service plan compliance as parental task completion and cooperation. But whereas caseworkers perceive a motivation to parent as the primary influence on service plan compliance, parents perceive multiple influences. Findings contribute to ongoing work to develop theories that can explain client service participation and its connection to positive child welfare outcomes.

Å beslutte med henblikk på risiko? – Når politikken dytter ansvaret over på barnevernets ansatte

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Hilde Anette Aamodt
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Child Welfare Service ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
Safe Side ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Rational Program ◽  
Risk Policy

Artikkelens tema er hvordan barnevernet, gjennom sine kommunikative beslutninger, skaper praksis. Mer konkret har jeg undersøkt hvordan saksbehandlerne i barnevernetsundersøkelser kommer frem til beslutninger gjennom å forholde seg til ulike forventninger. Gjennom analysen synliggjøres det hvordan barnevernetsundersøkelser langt på veiblir styrt av forventninger den enkelte saksbehandler og forelder ønsker å innfri. Disse handler for eksempel om å ha minst en samtale med barnet, samt å følge en undersøkerplan. Dermed blir det å ikke følge undersøkerplanen eller det å ikke snakke med barnet sett som usikre handlingsvalg mot målet om å sikre ”den gode undersøkelse”. Barnevernets beslutninger vil dermed inngå i et i et rasjonaliseringsprogram hvor hensikten eller målet er å unngå risiko. På den måten synes barnevernetsundersøkelser å være styrt av en risikopolitikk som tjenerhensikten å være på den sikre siden og hvor fremtidens nødvendige uvisshetblirbarnevernets problem. Risikopolitikken bringer barnevernetinn i enpraksis det ikke selv har definert og setter dermed barnevernetinn i en tilstandav fare. Politikken påleggerbarnevernet å omsette alle svake punkter tilforebyggelsesprogrammer med den hensikten å sikre ”den gode praksis”. Detbetyr en praksis hvor standardisering og maler blir de mest opplagte svarene.På den måtenblir det barnevernet som organisasjon som bærer ansvaret foreventuelle feilvurderinger – ikke den politikken som ligger til grunn for handlingene.Ansvaret dyttes dermed over på barnevernets ansatte. Søgeord: Niklas Luhmann, risikopolitikk, barnevern, beslutninger, sosialtarbeid ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Hilde AnetteAamodt: Making decisions due to “risk” The purpose of this article is to analyze how child welfare services create practice through communicative decisions. It analyzes how caseworkers in child welfare investigations arrive at their decisions by dealing with different expectations. The analysis showed that child welfare investigations are controlled to a great extent by a predetermined template that defines what will happen during these investigations. The caseworkers have clear expectations as they attempt to follow fulfill the plan. These include having at least one conversation with the child, as well as following the examination template. Therefore not doing one or either of these is considered an unsafe action as regards “doing a good examination.” Decisions about the child’s welfare will therefore be part of a rational program, where the purpose or goal is to avoid risk. In that way, child welfare investigations appear to be governed by a risk policy that serves the purpose of being on the safe side, and where any uncertainties in the future become the problem of the welfare agency. This risk policy means that the child welfare service practice is not clearly defined, hence endangering child welfare. The policy requires the child welfare service to transform all weak points in the prevention programs to ensure “good practice”. This means that standardization and templates are the most obvious answers to good practice. In this way, the child welfare service is an organization which bears responsibility itself for any errors of judgment – not the policies themselves. Responsibility is hence transferred to the child welfare service employees. Keywords: NiklasLuhmann, risk politics, social work, child welfare, decisions

scholarly journals The eristic of newsworthiness in the representation of Barnevernet controversy: A case study of the Norwegian Child Welfare Service

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaudia Szyma
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
News Values ◽  
Child Welfare Service ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
News Value ◽  
Artur Schopenhauer

This study offers a critical evaluation of news values by four selected contemporary media outlets: BBC News, The Federalist, OneEurope and Dagbladet. The material covers the controversy around the Norwegian Child Welfare Service with cases of children being taken away from their families, thus it involves cultural and legal aspects of the issue. The analytic categories are based on news value research guidelines that were introduced in the study by Johan Galtung and Mari H. Ruge (1965). In parallel, the philosophical reference is construed through the works by Artur Schopenhauer and Anton Powell. This, in turn, allows evaluating the language that construes newsworthiness from an eristic perspective. The study demonstrates how the eristic application of news values may influence the fair presentation of an issue, at least when a case is presented as involving a controversy. The focus is on the eristic tools of news value enhancement which lead to channeling consumers’ attention in a desirable manner.

The Future of the Maternity and Child Welfare Service

1953 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-354
Author(s):  
Frederick J.W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Service ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
The Future
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