1. Being child‐centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection.
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Bastian, Carmela, Dunk‐West, Priscilla, and Wendt, Sarah
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JUDGMENT (Psychology) ,FOCUS groups ,HUMAN research subjects ,ORGANIZATIONAL structure ,SOCIAL workers ,PATIENT-centered care ,QUALITATIVE research ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,INFORMED consent (Medical law) ,DECISION making ,CHILD welfare ,SOCIAL services ,DATA analysis software ,THEMATIC analysis ,PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience - Abstract
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that focused on factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making that is child‐centred. Appreciative inquiry informed the methodology that enabled four focus groups (n = 50) with child protection practitioners who worked with children and young people living out‐of‐home care. The study found that, firstly, child protection practitioners had clear conceptualizations of what child‐centred practice means and, secondly, articulated how functioning teams, effective organizational structures and relationships were crucial to child‐centred practice. The findings point to the importance of relationality in effective child‐centred professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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