Laura Liévano-Karim, Taylor Thaxton, Cecilia Bobbitt, Nicole Yee, Mariam Khan, Todd Franke
{"title":"A Balancing Act: How Professionals in the Foster Care System Balance the Harm of Intimate Partner Violence as Compared to the Harm of Child Removal.","authors":"Laura Liévano-Karim, Taylor Thaxton, Cecilia Bobbitt, Nicole Yee, Mariam Khan, Todd Franke","doi":"10.1007/s42448-023-00153-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42448-023-00153-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The striking prevalence of child exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and its associated adverse health outcomes necessitates a robust response from professionals who must grapple with the ethical dilemma of how to serve and support children in these circumstances. In 2020, 42 participants from four different professional backgrounds (attorneys, nonprofit leadership, licensed therapists, and social workers) were interviewed or participated in a focus group discussion. All groups acknowledged the shortfalls of current intervention practices, which often result in child removal. Group 1, which included social workers that work for children's legal services, minor's counsel, and Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services social workers, were more conflicted in their recommendations for change. Some Group 1 participants recommended more training, while others thought more training would make little difference and recommended more substantial changes to prevent child removal when possible. Group 2, which included parents' counsel, and Group 3, which included social workers, attorneys, and nonprofit leadership at IPV nonprofits, were more closely aligned in their recommendations, primarily focusing on systemic changes to the child welfare system. Participants whose employment required them to advocate for parents tend to view child removal from a non-offending parent as harmful for both the child and IPV survivor. These findings illuminate how the perspectives of these diverse participants are influenced by their professional and personal experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10713041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. A. Vis, Camilla Lauritzen, J. Fluke, K. J. Havnen, Ø. Christiansen, S. Fossum
{"title":"Service Provision by Child Protection Services — Exploring Variability at Case and Agency Levels in a Norwegian Sample","authors":"S. A. Vis, Camilla Lauritzen, J. Fluke, K. J. Havnen, Ø. Christiansen, S. Fossum","doi":"10.1007/s42448-023-00154-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-023-00154-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":"81 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81911004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It Takes a (Professional) Village: a Model for Interdisciplinary Work with Maltreated Children","authors":"A. Stern, Stav Dekel Amir","doi":"10.1007/s42448-023-00151-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-023-00151-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":"12 1","pages":"131-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75271431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon Sawyer, A. Cahill, S. Bartlett, Karen Smith, Daryl J. Higgins
{"title":"Do Australian Paramedics Understand Their Professional and Legal Obligations Regarding Child Abuse and Neglect?","authors":"Simon Sawyer, A. Cahill, S. Bartlett, Karen Smith, Daryl J. Higgins","doi":"10.1007/s42448-022-00144-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-022-00144-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":"7 1","pages":"59-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90898935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiences of Children During the Pandemic: Scrutinizing Increased Vulnerabilities in Education in the Case of Turkey.","authors":"Serra Müderrisoğlu, Başak Akkan, Pınar Uyan Semerci, Emre Erdoğan","doi":"10.1007/s42448-023-00152-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42448-023-00152-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lengthy time of school closure was one defining factor in understanding child well-being during the pandemic in a context where school as a relational space holds great importance for children, particularly those from a low socioeconomic background. Considering this significant aspect of lengthy school closure during the pandemic in Turkey, this article explores children's experiences concerning their day-to-day access to education, digital inequalities, housing conditions, and changing context of relations with peers and teachers. The article also explores the meaning that children attribute to school as a relational space where they shape their intergenerational and generational relations. The absence of the school in children's lives for almost 2 years has been a major source of longing for such significant childhood space. Following our earlier work on the children's negotiation of well-being within the boundaries of the relational spaces of home and school, this article looks into how children negotiate their well-being in a pandemic environment where school as a relational space has changed its meaning and where children's caretakers' (teachers, parents, and other) vulnerabilities have also increased. The analysis draws on the qualitative fieldwork carried out with 50 children during the summer of 2020 in Turkey. We aim to reflect on the experiences from children's perspectives within the boundaries of the constraints that the pandemic has generated. This article also discusses how COVID-19 has widened the gap and increased vulnerabilities among the already disadvantaged groups and gender in terms of available resources and their allocation as it is reflected in time use that portrays the meaning that children attribute to their own experience during the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880355/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10599464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobia Fattore, Gabrielle Drake, Jan Falloon, Jan Mason, Lise Mogensen
{"title":"Disruption, Slowness, and Collective Effervescence: Children's Perspectives on COVID-19 Lockdowns.","authors":"Tobia Fattore, Gabrielle Drake, Jan Falloon, Jan Mason, Lise Mogensen","doi":"10.1007/s42448-022-00147-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42448-022-00147-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic represented not only a health crisis, but a social crisis for children, one that has disrupted notions of what a good childhood is. However, the longer-term implications of the pandemic are still to be seen, for children, their families and communities. This article is concerned with what these ongoing changes may be, based on a qualitative multi-stage study that asks children about their experiences of well-being before the pandemic, during lockdowns and post-COVID-19 lockdowns. This included asking seven children in online semi-structured interviews about what aspects of life brought on by COVID-19 restrictions they would like to see continue post-lockdown. We outline some of our findings. We describe new rituals and ways of organising time developed by children, facilitated by the use of digital technologies. We describe these new ways of managing time as task-based rather than rule-based, with children experiencing slowness of and greater control over their time. We found that lockdowns provided a possibility for children to assert a public agency through banal acts of sociability, for example, by conforming to public health measures such as mask-wearing and hand-washing. Whilst small acts, children discussed these in terms of being moral agents (protecting the safety of others) and as part of a larger civic attitude they observed around them. Thus, their acts can be seen as expressions of larger forms of social solidarity that contributed to a sense of collective effervescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841493/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10760294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons for Child Protection Moving Forward: How to Keep From Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic","authors":"R. Krugman, J. Korbin","doi":"10.1007/s42448-023-00148-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-023-00148-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83543275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visibility and Well-Being in School Environments: Children's Reflections on the \"New Normal\" of Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Susann Fegter, Miriam Kost","doi":"10.1007/s42448-022-00136-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42448-022-00136-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper aims to contribute to the theory on school-related well-being by applying a qualitative approach that focuses on children's experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic and conceptualizes them as an epistemic opportunity to reconstruct aspects of school-related well-being from children's perspectives. Within the framework of the multinational qualitative study Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB), it conceptualizes well-being as a cultural construct and argues for including children's voices in the process of knowledge production. By drawing on statements from online interviews with 11- to 14-year-old children from Berlin, Germany in spring 2021 during school lockdown and by using a discourse analytical approach, the paper outlines the findings on visibility as a central feature of well-being in school environments that children make relevant for experiences of agency, security, and self. Visibility in school is constructed as a medium of control that subjects their bodies to norms of the school, exposes the individual to the gaze of others, and provides security in the context of the digital sphere and its temptations. The paper argues to systematically include these reflections and assessments of new digital learning arrangements during the Covid-19 pandemic into theoretical concepts on school-related well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9834671/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10581297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations on a Half Century of Research at the Kempe Center","authors":"R. Krugman","doi":"10.1007/s42448-022-00146-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-022-00146-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87450235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing an Ecological Model of Turnover Intent: Associations Among Child Welfare Caseworkers’ Characteristics, Lived Experience, Professional Attitudes, Agency Culture, and Proclivity to Leave","authors":"D. Hollinshead, Rebecca Orsi","doi":"10.1007/s42448-022-00139-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-022-00139-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73485,"journal":{"name":"International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76198062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}