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An anchor in instability or an inhibitor for development? Professional perceptions of siblinghood in family group homes in Israel 是不稳定的锚还是发展的阻碍？以色列家庭式集体之家对兄弟姐妹关系的专业看法

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13147

Osher Barnea, Noa Cohen, Inbal Hindi, Moshe Dolev, Orna Taus, Carmit Katz

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Conflicts with Friends and Romantic Partners: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of the Experiences of Girls in Care 与朋友和浪漫伴侣的冲突：对受照料女童经历的定性和定量分析

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13158

Samantha Chan, Katherine Wincentak, Jennifer Connolly

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Unpacking the Relationship Between COVID-19-Related Stress and Quality of Life Among High School Students: A Socio-Ecological Resilience Perspective 解读 COVID-19 相关压力与高中生生活质量之间的关系：社会生态复原力视角

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13160

Chaoxin Jiang, Wenjiong He, Shan Jiang

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Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway 挪威儿童福利工作者对亲密伴侣暴力和强制报告的看法

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13162

Silje Louise Dahl, Kjartan Leer-Salvesen, Malene Øvrelid, Solveig Karin Bø Vatnar

{"title":"Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Mandatory Reporting in Norway","authors":"Silje Louise Dahl, Kjartan Leer-Salvesen, Malene Øvrelid, Solveig Karin Bø Vatnar","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13162","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13162","url":null,"abstract":"Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major criminal, social and public health problem. As one effort to prevent IPV and intimate partner homicide, several countries have adopted legislation requiring professionals to disclose IPV to the authorities (commonly referred to as mandatory reporting). The child welfare service (CWS) is centrally positioned for detecting, reporting and preventing IPV, but there is limited empirical knowledge concerning how the service handles IPV cases or of social workers' awareness of mandatory reporting of IPV. Using qualitative interviews, we explore how CWS workers in Norway describe their discretionary space and mandatory obligations towards adults subjected to IPV. Our findings indicate an inexpedient interplay between understandings of professional mandate and individual responsibility and local routines and organisation and insufficient knowledge about IPV and mandatory reporting. We suggest that a reframing of CWS workers' understanding of their discretionary space is needed to ensure that their individual responsibility towards adults subjected to IPV is understood as part of their mandate. This reframing presupposes structural efforts, such as formal training. We propose further investigations concerning how local organisation and routines either facilitate or interfere with systematic and thorough handling of IPV in families with which the municipal CWS meets.","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 4","pages":"1076-1085"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140259340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Examining Child Labour in Stone Quarrying in the GA West Municipality, Ghana 考察加纳 GA West 市采石场中的童工现象

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13159

Daniella Delali Sedegah

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Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E-Records and Professional Interviews 影响解除看护令诉讼结果的因素：对国家数据、儿童电子记录和专业人士访谈的研究

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13156

Jo Staines, Beth Stone, Jessica Roy, Gillian Macdonald

{"title":"Factors Influencing the Outcomes of Discharge of Care Order Proceedings: An Examination of National Data, Children's E-Records and Professional Interviews","authors":"Jo Staines, Beth Stone, Jessica Roy, Gillian Macdonald","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13156","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13156","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding more about the discharge of care orders is vital—whether a care order remains in place has significant implications for children and their families and for local authorities. While there has been comprehensive research about the process and outcomes of care proceedings, much less is known about the discharge of care orders—particularly how, why and when care orders are ended and the differences between applications that are granted and those that are not. The present study combined data from an anonymized administrative data on discharge applications, a detailed analysis of children's e-records and qualitative interviews with family justice professionals to create the first detailed profile of discharge applications across England and Wales. This paper reports, for the first time, the number of discharge applications and outcomes across England and Wales, highlighting regional as well as between-country variation. Drawing on data from children's e-records and interviews with professionals, highlighting how and why local authorities are more likely to submit discharge applications, and to have applications granted, than parents. Recommendations are made for how to adapt professional practice and policy around discharge applications to better meet the needs of children and families.","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 4","pages":"1034-1043"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140081023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Analysing bully-victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China 通过符号互动主义分析欺凌者与受害者之间的关系：中国案例研究

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13151

Erlin He, Han Hao, Kunkun Pan, Xiaoqiong Li, Xun Zhao

{"title":"Analysing bully-victim formation through symbolic interactionism: A case study in China","authors":"Erlin He, Han Hao, Kunkun Pan, Xiaoqiong Li, Xun Zhao","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13151","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13151","url":null,"abstract":"Bullying is a pervasive public behaviour that raises significant global concerns, inflicting harm on bullies, victims, and bully-victims. This qualitative case study investigates bully-victim role formation through the lens of symbolic interactionism. Data were collected via interviews and observations with a Chinese adolescent boy identified as a bully-victim, by his family, teachers, and peers. Findings revealed the case subject experienced relational and physical victimization, while perpetrating financial, verbal, and physical bullying. Family violence, school exclusion, and an aggressive community culture shaped the subject's aggressive responses over time. Unique aspects of the Chinese cultural context, including parent–child dynamics within migrant families and teacher–student relationships, influenced role development. This novel application of symbolic interactionism sheds light on the complex interplay between multisystem interactions, emotions, and confrontational actions underlying the case subject's bully-victim status. The study underscores the value of qualitative explorations, giving voice to bully-victims' perspectives. Findings can inform culturally specific bullying prevention and highlight how contextual interactions shape adolescents' roles. This rare glimpse into bully-victim experiences in China advances theoretical perspectives and has important implications for research and practice addressing the worldwide problem of bullying.","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 4","pages":"981-992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140428138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improving the accuracy of social work judgements: A proof-of-concept study of a training programme 提高社会工作判断的准确性：一项培训计划的概念验证研究

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13146

Dr David Wilkins

{"title":"Improving the accuracy of social work judgements: A proof-of-concept study of a training programme","authors":"Dr David Wilkins","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13146","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13146","url":null,"abstract":"Child and family social workers routinely make professional judgements involving significant legal and moral questions (e.g. whether a child has been abused) and more ‘everyday’ issues (e.g. will the child be re-referred again if we close the case now?) Yet the world is capricious, and we rarely know with certainty what is going to happen in future or the likely impact of our different choices. Given the consequences of their judgements and decisions, it is imperative that social workers are provided with the best possible support. This paper reports a proof-of-concept study of a set of interventions to improve the judgemental accuracy of social workers: (i) a survey to identify respondents with above-average existing abilities, (ii) training sessions on cognitive debiasing and (iii) structured group working and (iv) three methods for aggregating individual judgements. Findings indicate that it is possible to measure the accuracy of social work judgements in relation to case-study materials and retrospective questions, while the feedback about the training was largely positive. Any future studies should aim to recruit a more diverse set of respondents, test judgemental accuracy in relation to prospective judgements and explore what types of questions would be most helpful for real-world decision-making.","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 4","pages":"948-959"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.13146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140447426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Work and family conflicts, depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours: An interdependent approach 工作与家庭冲突、抑郁症状和共同养育冲突行为：一种相互依存的方法

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13155

Yizhen Ren, Aiyi Liu, Shengqi Zou, Jiefeng Ying, Xinyi Wang, Xinchun Wu

{"title":"Work and family conflicts, depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours: An interdependent approach","authors":"Yizhen Ren, Aiyi Liu, Shengqi Zou, Jiefeng Ying, Xinyi Wang, Xinchun Wu","doi":"10.1111/cfs.13155","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.13155","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the relationships between work and family conflicts, specifically work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts, parental depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. This national survey study involved the participation of 830 families in mainland China, including fathers, mothers and adolescents. Fathers and mothers provided self-reports on their experiences of work-to-family conflicts, family-to-work conflicts and depressive symptoms. Meanwhile, adolescents reported their perceptions of coparenting conflict behaviours exhibited by both fathers and mothers. The Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model was employed to analyse these relationships. In the Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model, paternal family-to-work conflicts were found to be positively associated with both paternal and maternal coparenting conflict behaviours, mediated through paternal depressive symptoms. Similarly, maternal family-to-work conflicts were positively linked to both paternal and maternal coparenting conflict behaviours, mediated through maternal depressive symptoms. Additionally, paternal family-to-work conflicts exhibited a direct positive relationship with both paternal and maternal coparenting conflict behaviours. However, paternal work-to-family conflicts demonstrated a direct negative association with paternal coparenting conflict behaviours. This study sheds light on the complex interconnectedness between work and family conflicts, parental depressive symptoms and coparenting conflict behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings highlight the importance of addressing work and family conflicts in understanding and managing coparenting dynamics, particularly during challenging times such as a pandemic. Such insights can inform interventions and support systems to promote healthier coparenting relationships and family well-being.","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"29 4","pages":"1022-1033"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139959033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reintegration of street-connected children in Kenya: Evaluation of Agape Children's Ministry's Family Strengthening Programme 肯尼亚与街头有联系的儿童重返社会：对 Agape 儿童部家庭巩固计划的评估

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.13154

Johanna K. P. Greeson, John R. Gyourko, Sarah Wasch, Christopher S. Page

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