What Is Vulnerability? Quebec Community Family Workers' Perceptions of Family Situations in Cases of Child Neglect

IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES
Savannah De Boer, Carl Lacharité, Karine Dubois-Comtois
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Abstract

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.

什么是脆弱?魁北克社区家庭工作者对儿童忽视案例中家庭状况的看法
虽然脆弱是一个有点模糊的概念,但这个术语在儿童保护中被广泛使用,儿童保护工作者在描述他们工作的家庭情况时经常提到脆弱性。由于将家庭视为弱势群体或生活在弱势环境中可能会影响干预措施,因此了解儿童保护工作者在谈论脆弱性时的意思非常重要。为此,我们探讨了社区家庭工作者对魁北克儿童保护系统中涉及儿童忽视的家庭脆弱性的概念。对9名社区家庭工作者进行的半结构化访谈的专题分析揭示了他们脆弱性概念的两个主要组成部分:(1)脆弱性之间的区别,被视为所有人的内在特征;(2)在几个领域缺乏资源的累积效应导致的脆弱性加剧。我们讨论了这些脆弱性概念对社区家庭工作者对家庭和儿童保护系统的看法的影响。
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自引率
5.90%
发文量
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期刊介绍: Child and Family Social Work provides a forum where researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and managers in the field of child and family social work exchange knowledge, increase understanding and develop notions of good practice. In its promotion of research and practice, which is both disciplined and articulate, the Journal is dedicated to advancing the wellbeing and welfare of children and their families throughout the world. Child and Family Social Work publishes original and distinguished contributions on matters of research, theory, policy and practice in the field of social work with children and their families. The Journal gives international definition to the discipline and practice of child and family social work.
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