Decision-making in child protective services: Influences at multiple levels of the social ecology

SA Font, K Maguire-Jack - Child abuse & neglect, 2015 - Elsevier
Decision-making in the child protection system is influenced by multiple factors; agency and
geographic contexts, caseworker attributes, and families' unique circumstances all likely …

The decision making ecology of placing a child into foster care: A structural equation model

JC Graham, AJ Dettlaff, DJ Baumann, JD Fluke - Child abuse & neglect, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Decision Making Ecology provided a framework for empirically testing the
impact of Case, Caseworker and Organizational factors on the decision to place children in …

Development of an instrument to understand the child protective services decision-making process, with a focus on placement decisions

AJ Dettlaff, JC Graham, J Holzman, DJ Baumann… - Child Abuse & …, 2015 - Elsevier
When children come to the attention of the child welfare system, they become involved in a
decision-making process in which decisions are made that have a significant effect on their …

Placement of children in out-of-home care in Québec, Canada: When and for whom initial out-of-home placement is most likely to occur

T Esposito, N Trocmé, M Chabot, A Shlonsky… - Children and Youth …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study contributes to the growing child protection placement literature by providing the
first Canadian provincial longitudinal study examining when and for whom initial out-of …

Reasons for placement decisions in a case of suspected child abuse: The role of reasoning, work experience and attitudes in decision-making

C Bartelink, EJ Knorth, ML López, C Koopmans… - Child abuse & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Child welfare and child protection workers regularly make placement decisions in child
abuse cases, but how they reach these decisions is not well understood. This study focuses …

The evolving understanding of disproportionality and disparities in child welfare

AJ Dettlaff - Handbook of child maltreatment, 2013 - Springer
Racial disproportionality and disparities have long represented prominent concerns in child
welfare. Recent research concerning differential rates of maltreatment among racial groups …

Effectiveness of family group conferencing in preventing repeat referrals to child protective services and out-of-home placements

DM Hollinshead, TW Corwin, EJ Maher… - Child Abuse & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Rigorous research on the efficacy of family group conferencing is rare. This randomized
control trial study used an intent-to-treat approach to examine whether a referral to a family …

The impact of drugs, infants, single mothers, and relatives on reunification: A decision-making ecology approach

K Wittenstrom, DJ Baumann, J Fluke, JC Graham… - Child Abuse & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Using a Decision-Making Ecology (DME) approach and proportional hazards
models, the study isolated four case factor profiles that interacted strongly with race and …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Decisioni difficili. Bambini, famiglie e servizi sociali

B Segatto, A Dal Ben - 2020 - research.unipd.it
Tutelare i bambini è uno dei compiti più complessi che sono chiamati a svolgere gli
assistenti sociali. Da sempre etichettati come coloro che, invece di fornire aiuto e supporto …

Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research

E Keddell - Qualitative social work, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
There are a number of decision-making conceptual frameworks that situate child protection
decision-making in their organisational and social environments (Benbenishty et al., 2016; …