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Irvin, James Edgar. "Child abuse or neglect reporting requirements for education professionals : direct and indirect reporting /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3221875.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006."May, 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-199). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2006]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
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Neal, Nina Faye 1955. "Reporting of child sexual abuse among professionals." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291797.
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The purpose of this study was to identify reporting of child sexual abuse among professionals. Forty out of one hundred questionnaires were completed and returned. The population for this study consisted of men and women in the following professions: Pediatricians, nurses, preschool workers, teachers, religious workers, and counselors in a southwestern community. A questionnaire was used to obtain demographic data and general information. Included in the questionnaire were eight hypothetical case vignettes of child sexual abuse. The professionals were asked to answer ten questions pertaining to the cases. Results showed that although professionals are aware of reporting laws, they still are not reporting all the cases of child sexual abuse when they suspect abuse. In certain cases, professionals are reluctant to report following a retraction by the child, or when the parents deny the allegation. Religious workers have the least knowledge of reporting laws of the professionals sampled. Overall, pediatricians report more often when they suspect child sexual abuse than the other professionals in the sample.
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Hagen, Carol Kellerman. "Decision Making Factors in Child Caregiver Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2527/.
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This study investigated decision making factors used by child caregivers to identify suspected child abuse and neglect and collected data on caregiver training in the recognition and reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect.
Data was collected in July 1999 in fourteen north Texas childcare programs. One hundred twenty three teaching and administrative staff completed a survey based on Jacobson, A., Glass, J. and Ruggiere, P. (1998). Five teachers and five administrators chosen for convenience were read eleven vignettes describing possibly abusive situations to decide whether they were reportable or non-reportable, and to indicate factors used to make their decisions.
Administrators (50%) and teachers (13.3%) reported being unfamiliar with child abuse and neglect definitions and reporting laws. Two thirds (66.7%) of the administrators and 39.8% of the teachers had received specific training in recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect. Administrators were more likely than teachers to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Teachers often reported to program administrators rather than state designated authorities. All subjects relied on information about children, but administrators also used information about parents, with teachers more likely to make excuses for parental actions. With 110 reporting opportunities, training was cited as a factor only twice by administrators. No teachers made reports to anyone other than program administrators, a factor named deference in this study. Four of five administrators expected deference from teachers when reporting decisions were made.
Present training in the recognition and reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect is inadequate. Caregivers need additional training in differences between accidental and intentional injuries, detection of child sexual abuse and emotional neglect, recognition and assessment of injuries among infants and toddlers, and mandated reporting procedures. Further research on optimal training for accurate reporting of suspected abuse and neglect is needed. A mandate to report to authorities outside the child care center should be clarified in state law. Licensing individuals as well as programs would strengthen reporting by caregivers.
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Beck, Kirk A. "A decision making model of child abuse reporting." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0021/NQ48604.pdf.
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Nguyen-Vu, MyTra Thi. "Preschool Teachers' Decision-Making Process in Reporting Child Abuse." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10815780.
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Despite being mandated reporters by law, preschool teachers often fail to report suspicion of child abuse or neglect. Although research has been conducted regarding reasons why teachers do not report, no study has yet examined preschool teachers’ thinking as decisions are being made. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to examine the in-the-moment decision-making process of preschool teachers to report or not report cases of suspected child abuse or neglect. Three research questions guided this exploration of teachers’ responses to cases of possible child abuse or neglect, the reasons teachers give for their responses, and their confidence in the correctness of their decisions to report or not to report child abuse or neglect. The conceptual framework for this study was the ethical decision-making model of Meneghetti and Seel. The research was a phenomenological study using the think aloud protocol of van Someren, Barnard, and Sandberg. Three scenarios of possible child abuse cases were used as the basis for the face-to-face interviews in which 6 lead preschool teachers described their thought processes. The purposeful sample comprised 6 lead teachers in a major city in the United States with children aged 2 through 5. A thematic analysis method and coding strategy were used to answer the research questions. The findings in this study were consistent with the literature in that most of the teachers did not elect to report their suspicion of child abuse or neglect, but were inhibited by lack of clear understanding of what constitutes abuse and neglect, and by a desire for more information. This study contributes to positive social change by indicating a need for more training of preschool teachers in their mandated reporter role, which can result in more confident decision making and greater success in protecting young children.
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Barlow, Steven Lee. "Nurse Practitioner Barriers to Reporting Child Maltreatment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2672.
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Each year approximately 1,000,000 child become the victims of abuse or neglect. The detrimental effects of child maltreatment (CM) have been well documented and create significant problems for the survivors and for society as well. All fifty states have enacted mandatory reporting laws to combat the CM epidemic. As mandated reporters, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives (APRNs) have the opportunity and responsibilities to identify and refer potential victims of CM, in this study a significant percentage choose not to report their suspicions. Respondents to the study survey identified several potential barriers to APRN reporting such as lack of education and training about CM, negative perceptions of child protective services and lack of physical evidence indicating CM occurred.
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Fleisher, Raphaela L. "Child maltreatment : teachers' knowledge of risk, procedures and reporting." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33462.
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Sixty teachers from the Ottawa-Carleton region of Canada were surveyed to measure their knowledge of child maltreatment risk indicators, knowledge of reporting procedures, and the frequency of reporting sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect. Correlations did not support the hypothesis of a significant relationship between knowledge and actual reporting frequency. Multiple Regression analyses demonstrated that the knowledge of child maltreatment risk factors and the knowledge of reporting procedures were not predictive of reporting. It was found that the teachers sampled were very knowledgeable of the basic risk indicators of child maltreatment and reporting procedures and policy. However, the findings did not support the hypotheses of a significant relationship between knowledge of child maltreatment risk factors and of reporting procedures and actual reporting frequency. These findings are discussed in consideration of the limitations of the current study, the implications for practice and the possibilities for further research.
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Goulart, Dorothy. "How Social Workers' Perceptions as Mandated Reporters May Impact Reporting Suspected Child Abuse." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5711.
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Child maltreatment is a worldwide concern. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, social workers are mandated reporters. When there is reasonable suspicion, they are required by law to report suspected child maltreatment to the appropriate Child Protective Services office. In this study, the research problem was the underreporting of child maltreatment, even when reasonable suspicion existed. The purpose of this study, as reflected in the research questions, was to understand social workers' perceptions of their role as mandated reporters, to explore how their perceptions impacted reporting, and to develop recommendations that could be implemented to help ensure appropriate reporting. An action research study was conducted with master's level social workers in southern Virginia. Symbolic interaction theory was used in researching the social workers' role and their perceptions as mandated reporters interacting with clients. Qualitative data were collected from a focus group of 6 social workers and analyzed using specific coding protocols. Six themes emerged: (a) importance of the role of social worker as a mandated reporter, (b) role conflict, (c) negative consequences, (d) feelings, (e) increased knowledge of child abuse laws, and (f) education of clients. The findings of this study may be used by regulators and agency personnel to design education, training, and supervision to help ensure social workers are prepared to appropriately respond to mandated reporting requirements.
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Young, Stuart Carter. "School social workers identification training and reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/641.
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This study examined the relationship between child abuse and neglect identification training and the reporting of suspected cases of abuse and neglect by school social workers/visiting teachers and attendance workers in a twenty-two county area in middle Georgia. The State of Georgia's Department of Family and Children Services identifies the area as Region V. A 25-item questionnaire was distributed to the respondents to determine whether a positive relationship existed between training in child maltreatment identification and the number of reports made by respondents to Child Protective Services. The study examined three consecutive yearly time periods. Using the Pearson ‘r’ correlation, it was determined that a significant positive correlation existed for two of the three years under study (1985-86 and 1986-87 school years). Results from the 1987-88 school year did not reflect a significant relationship; however, an analysis of all three school years combined reflected significant results. Recommendations by the researcher for systematized training for school social workers/visiting teachers are made.
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Sweeney, Melanie Ann. "A Teaching Program for Nurse Practitioners in Preventing, Identifying, and Reporting Child Abuse." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610495.
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Providing instruction on preventing, diagnosing, and treating victims of child
abuse is a challenge in health care education. Currently at the University of Arizona,
College of Nursing, there is a deficiency in the education for graduate students or future
nurse practitioners regarding child abuse. The purpose of this project was to create an
educational program for students in the graduate program and other health professionals;
to increase the awareness of the risk factors leading to child abuse; the health care
providers' role in prevention, identification, reporting, and interventions for child abuse
victims and their families.
The theoretical framework for this project was Pender's Health Promotion and
Health Protection Model. Nurse Practitioners can utilize the Health Promotion Model to
provide an organized framework for developing and implementing interventions that
address the individual needs of the diverse victims and families of child abuse. In
addition, the Health Promotion Model will be able to assist other health professionals in
providing information to other individuals that work closely with children in the effort to
encourage health promoting behaviors and prevent abuse. Evaluation of this project will
be ongoing. Ongoing evaluation is designed to enhance teaching techniques in the
prevention, recognition and interventions for child abuse and to assist families in
establishing healthier lifestyles.
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Stoddard, Stephanie M. "Gender-specific factors impacting upon males' disclosures of child sexual abuse." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83161.
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The purpose of this research was first, to identify why males sexually abused as children under-report their experiences of child sexual abuse. Secondly, the disclosure experiences of males sexually abused as children were examined and analyzed, with a particular emphasis placed on exploring the links between low disclosure rates, gender role socialization, and homophobia. Qualitative data were gathered during semi-structured interviews of men sexually abused during childhood. Issues and themes arising during interviews were generally consistent with those identified in the literature. However, the sample size was small and additional research---employing larger samples---should be completed in order to collect further qualitative data regarding the disclosure experiences of males sexually abused as children. Despite its limitations, this research does provide valuable insight into the experience of disclosure for male victims of child sexual abuse.
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Tucci, Joseph 1966. "Towards an understanding of emotional and psychological abuse : exploring the views of children, carers and professionals involved in the child protection system in Victoria." Monash University, Dept. of Social Work, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5477.
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Lee, Pei-Yu. "Child abuse and neglect reporting among nurses in Taiwan : professional knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and self-efficacy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17800/1/Pei-Yu_Lee_Thesis.pdf.
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According to the Children's Bureau of Taiwan (2007), the number of Taiwanese children abused and neglected sharply increased from 6,059 to 10,094 between 2000 and 2006. Reports of abused and neglected children also rose from 8,494 to 13,986 in that period. This followed enactment of the Children and Youth Welfare Law in 2003 imposing a range of health, education and social welfare professionals, including nurses, the statutory duty to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Previous studies in Taiwan have indicated that despite the legislation, a range of factors continue to act against nurses reporting child abuse and neglect (CAN) cases according to the law. Previous research had examined factors that influence CAN reporting by health, education, and welfare professionals including registered nurses in Taiwan. The study herein sought to extend knowledge of these factors by identifying and assessing nurses' self-efficacy as a prime factor influencing professional commitment to legal reporting of CAN. The aims of this research were to: (1) examine influencing factors of nurses' likelihood to report CAN in Taiwanese health care settings, and (2) develop and test a new instrument Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Self Efficacy (CANRSE) to measure nurses' self-efficacy in CAN reporting. The research was conducted in two phases. Phase one investigated nurses' experience with CAN reporting and examined relationships between nurses' perceptions, attitudes, knowledge, and likelihood to report CAN cases. Two hundred and thirty-eight nurses from emergency departments, paediatric units and community centres in Taiwan completed a survey. The results showed that using a series of vignettes, a significant relationship existed between the likelihood to report CAN and perception, attitude, and knowledge. Notably, perception was the most significant variable in predicting nurses' likelihood to report CAN cases. Findings indicated nurses had poor perceptions of recognizing and reporting CAN and lacked faith in child protection services. Knowledge of Taiwanese CAN reporting laws was poor. In general, most nurses believed that they needed more training courses on the recognition and reporting of CAN. These findings, in particular the importance of perceptions of legal reporting behaviour, were worthy of further investigation. In Phase two, a measure of CANRSE was developed and tested. Data were collected from 496 nurses working in Taiwanese health care settings. Development of the CANRSE was guided by an extensive literature review, findings from Phase one of the study and by an expert panel. The CANRSE consisted of five sections: (1) demographic information, (2) efficacy-expectation for suspected cases, (3) efficacy-expectation for known cases, (4) outcome-expectation of CAN reporting, and (5) likelihood to report CAN. The influence of nurses' self-efficacy on their likelihood to report CAN cases was also analysed. Structure of the CANRSE was supported by structural equation modeling using AMOS 6.0. Additionally, correlation and regression analyses were applied to investigate the validity and reliability of the CANRSE. CANRSE met accepted psychometric standards for reliability and validity in this study. Nurses' CAN self-efficacy yielded strong prediction over personal characteristics, experience as a nurse, experience as a parent, and age. Thus, the research provides an important contribution to the literature relating to mandatory reporting by professional groups in particular nurses. It was the first research to successfully develop a new instrument to evaluate nurses' selfefficacy in CAN reporting. The findings provide a basis for understanding the influence of Taiwanese nurses' decision making for CAN reporting. Further research can extend the scope of CAN training programs and their evaluation.
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Lee, Pei-Yu. "Child abuse and neglect reporting among nurses in Taiwan : professional knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and self-efficacy." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/17800/.
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According to the Children's Bureau of Taiwan (2007), the number of Taiwanese children abused and neglected sharply increased from 6,059 to 10,094 between 2000 and 2006. Reports of abused and neglected children also rose from 8,494 to 13,986 in that period. This followed enactment of the Children and Youth Welfare Law in 2003 imposing a range of health, education and social welfare professionals, including nurses, the statutory duty to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Previous studies in Taiwan have indicated that despite the legislation, a range of factors continue to act against nurses reporting child abuse and neglect (CAN) cases according to the law. Previous research had examined factors that influence CAN reporting by health, education, and welfare professionals including registered nurses in Taiwan. The study herein sought to extend knowledge of these factors by identifying and assessing nurses' self-efficacy as a prime factor influencing professional commitment to legal reporting of CAN. The aims of this research were to: (1) examine influencing factors of nurses' likelihood to report CAN in Taiwanese health care settings, and (2) develop and test a new instrument Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Self Efficacy (CANRSE) to measure nurses' self-efficacy in CAN reporting. The research was conducted in two phases. Phase one investigated nurses' experience with CAN reporting and examined relationships between nurses' perceptions, attitudes, knowledge, and likelihood to report CAN cases. Two hundred and thirty-eight nurses from emergency departments, paediatric units and community centres in Taiwan completed a survey. The results showed that using a series of vignettes, a significant relationship existed between the likelihood to report CAN and perception, attitude, and knowledge. Notably, perception was the most significant variable in predicting nurses' likelihood to report CAN cases. Findings indicated nurses had poor perceptions of recognizing and reporting CAN and lacked faith in child protection services. Knowledge of Taiwanese CAN reporting laws was poor. In general, most nurses believed that they needed more training courses on the recognition and reporting of CAN. These findings, in particular the importance of perceptions of legal reporting behaviour, were worthy of further investigation. In Phase two, a measure of CANRSE was developed and tested. Data were collected from 496 nurses working in Taiwanese health care settings. Development of the CANRSE was guided by an extensive literature review, findings from Phase one of the study and by an expert panel. The CANRSE consisted of five sections: (1) demographic information, (2) efficacy-expectation for suspected cases, (3) efficacy-expectation for known cases, (4) outcome-expectation of CAN reporting, and (5) likelihood to report CAN. The influence of nurses' self-efficacy on their likelihood to report CAN cases was also analysed. Structure of the CANRSE was supported by structural equation modeling using AMOS 6.0. Additionally, correlation and regression analyses were applied to investigate the validity and reliability of the CANRSE. CANRSE met accepted psychometric standards for reliability and validity in this study. Nurses' CAN self-efficacy yielded strong prediction over personal characteristics, experience as a nurse, experience as a parent, and age. Thus, the research provides an important contribution to the literature relating to mandatory reporting by professional groups in particular nurses. It was the first research to successfully develop a new instrument to evaluate nurses' selfefficacy in CAN reporting. The findings provide a basis for understanding the influence of Taiwanese nurses' decision making for CAN reporting. Further research can extend the scope of CAN training programs and their evaluation.
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Faulkner, Amanda Ellen. "Do Variations in State Mandatory Child Abuse and Neglect Report Laws affect Report Rates among Medical Personnel?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/58.
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Each state and territory within the United States is required by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act [42 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.] to maintain a mandatory suspected child abuse and neglect reporting law, requiring certain professionals who regularly see children to report any suspicions of child maltreatment to child protective services. It is well documented that mandatory reporters fail to report each case of suspected child maltreatment they witness. This study sought to determine whether differences in three specific variables within the mandatory report laws had an effect on the frequency with which medical personnel report suspected child abuse and neglect. The three variables analyzed were: definitional scope of emotional abuse; standard of knowledge required for a report; and severity of penalty imposed on those who knowingly fail to report cases of child abuse and neglect. Data was obtained from the Child Maltreatment 2006 annual report printed by the Health and Human Services Administration of Children, Youth and Families. Of the three variables assessed, only severity of penalty yielded a significant association with report rate. States with lower report rates were significantly more likely to have lenient penalties for failure to report compared with those who had report rates above the national average (O.R. = 5.0, 95% C.I. = 1.165-21.465). It is recommended that states consider increasing the severity of the sanctions enforced for failure to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Although standard of knowledge requirements were not significantly associated with report rates, the literature suggests that standardization of this portion of the mandatory report laws could improve report rates, particularly among physicians.
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Lee, Wai-ming Aaron, and 李偉明. "Social worker's attitudes to referring child abuse cases to police." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978563.
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Cocozza, Madeleine. "The Parenting of Society : From Report to Support." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10713.
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Child protection is the process that aims to find, investigate and help maltreated children. In many countries this process is initiated by professionals who compile mandated reports that are then submitted to a designated agency that in many cases is part of a separate child protection system. In Sweden there is no separate child protection system. In Sweden, the child protection process is part of the family-service organization system. The system has two main objectives, one is voluntary (provide family service), the other coercive (provide child protection). This system is administered by the municipal social services agencies (referred to throughout as Social Services). Aim: The overall purpose of this study was to gain knowledge of the child protection process in Sweden. The aim was two fold, one to carry out an in-depth study of a population of reports, the other to analyse the results of the findings in relation to the child protection system. The child protection system consists of elements outlined in the macro system: the underlying ideology and the framing of the problem, and the legislation, administration and the demands placed on professionals. Method: A total population of reports made to one municipality during 1998 was followed to a final decision. The reports were collected in 2000.´There were 1 570 reports made regarding 1 051 children, which composed 4 % of children age 0-18. This initial study was used in four papers where data were analysed covering four different issues. In 2003 a follow-up study was conducted in order to determine the extent to which the child appeared in the database of Social Services. In the first paper the children’s age, gender and contacts with Social Services were described as were the content of the reports and the outcome of reporting. The objective of the second paper was a description of the reporter, and the measurement of the extent to which the reports indicated child maltreatment. The third paper aimed at analysing how the first decision, the decision not to investigate reports, was made in the child protection process. Then a re-evaluation of these decisions was made to see how well the decision was justified. The contacts taken were described. In the fourth paper the influence of the socio-economic load on the child protection process was measured. Findings: Few reports (16 %) led to an intervention being provided, and 41% of the reports were not investigated further. In the follow-up study 61% of all 1 051 children appeared in the files of Social Services. As Sweden lacks a juvenile delinquency system these cases are automatically passed from the police to Social Services and are there registered as mandated reports. Hence the police became the largest report group of reporters, followed by professionals. Of the professionals’ reports 22 % were not investigated. In the follow-up study 53 % of these re-occurred at the Social Service and were then investigated. Seventy six percent of the reports not investigated were when re-evaluated found to indicate child maltreatment. The social worker used the parents as the main source for information in 74 % of the cases. The social worker did not contact the child at all in 53 % of the cases and only nine of the reporters were contacted. In the follow-up study 45 % of the children investigation re-appeared in the files of Social Services. Children from high socio-economic load districts were more often reported than those from middle or low (4.3%, 3.1% 2.3%). The socio economic load when measured in logistic regression was not found to correlate with the decision to investigate. A main finding in this study was that the child protection process was difficult to separate from other systems within the family service. This makes it much more difficult to evaluate the child protection process. The reports filed by professionals were not investigated adequately, and the lack of criteria of specifying how reports are to be evaluated creates a risk that maltreated children will not be found. The professional reports were handled in a way that increased the risk that professionals will have negative experiences with Social Services that consequently can lead them to refrain from filing eports. Conclusion: These findings suggest the following: Pass new legislation that makes it easier to separate each of the three systems from the other. Create a national database in which data on the handling of child-protection cases is systematically recorded. Develop a national reporting form that is to be used by all who file mandated reports of suspected maltreatment. Create clear criteria that specify how a report is to be handled to ensure that the reporting professionals are met with appropriate respect and that the quality of the decisions is guaranteed all over the country.
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Debler, Julianna. "Has the pendulum swung too far? a legal evaluation of Florida's child abuse and neglect registry." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/539.
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Over the past several years, increasing public emphasis on preventing child maltreatment has resulted in substantial changes to Florida's child abuse and neglect central registry. Many of these recent changes, aimed at preventing child maltreatment, have resulted in over one million false, unsubstantiated, and inconclusive reports of child abuse and neglect within the last decade. While the information held in reports may be useful for identifying and preventing potential child abuse or neglect, due process concerns have been raised with regards to the process of placing a person's name in a report without providing a hearing for challenging or removing inaccurate information. Focusing on Florida law, this research concentrates on: 1) the child maltreatment reporting process, 2) the procedures for maintaining reports, and 3) the accessibility of these reports in order to determine whether due process constitutional rights are protected under Florida's child abuse and neglect reporting laws. The intent of this thesis is to analyze the occurrence of unsubstantiated cases of child maltreatment, incidences of false reporting, and legal remedies available for those wrongfully accused of abusing or neglecting a child. Through the analysis of case law, federal and state statutes, available statistics, child abuse resources, and personal interviews with members of the Florida Legislature, evidence shows that due process constitutional rights are not protected under Florida's child abuse and neglect reporting laws. By raising awareness of the areas of child protection that require legal re-evaluation, this thesis aims to discover the balance between protecting children from harm and protecting adults from the severe ramifications resulting from false and improper allegations of child abuse and neglect.B.S.
Bachelors
Health and Public Affairs
Legal Studies
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Fjeld, Benedicte, and Victoria Ekberg. "Ett svårt beslut : Sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att anmäla när barn misstänks fara illa." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - grundnivå, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12313.
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Background Child maltreatment has increased over the past years. There is no direct relation-ship between child maltreatment and the actual living condition of the children. All children should be protected against all types of physical, mental and sexual abuse. It is of great im-portance that nurses have knowledge of how to report when they suspected child maltreatment. Aim The aim was to describe nurses´ experiences of reporting when child maltreatment is sus-pected. Methods A method to contribute to evidence-based nursing with ground in analysis of qualita-tive research was performed. In this study nine qualitative articles were analyzed. Results From the analysis three main themes were identified; a difficult task, need of support and create a holistic view of children. Seven subthemes were identified; manage their own lack of knowledge, uncertainty and fear, trust their judgment and courage to act,protection of children's safety and well-being, support from colleagues and management, interact with child protection services, strengthen trust with related parents of the child and environment affecting children.Conclusion Conclusions that can be deduced from this study are to highlight the need for support and knowledge of how a report is conducted. Consequences to not report child maltreat-ment is described in this study as well as which benefits a report of child maltreatment may give for both children and close relatives.
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Abdi, Fartun, and Siham Khaloufi. "Faktorer som hindrar sjuksköterskan inom hälso- och sjukvården från att göra en orosanmälan på barn." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - grundnivå, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12179.
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Background: It's a fundamental principal to protect children's rights. Through legislation, child abuse has been prohibited in many countries. Nurses working with children has a frontline role in identifying and reporting suspected or known child abuse. Mandatory reporting is one of the nurse's duty, reluctancy to report can lead to misconduct but it also leads to children suffering. Aim: The purpose of this degree project was to identify factors preventing nurses from mandatory reporting of children in health care. Method: A literature study based on using and analysing nine qualitative articles. Results: Three themes emerged in the result. The first theme was knowledge deficit, with two subthemes which were the need of education of signs and symptoms and the other subtheme was insufficient experiences. The second theme was nurses strained work environment with three subthemes. The first subtheme was the lack of routines, the second one miss information and the third one lack of cooperation and communication. The third theme consists of two subthemes, which were the lack of emotional support and the experience of fear. The results showed that nurses due to different factors relinquished from mandatory reporting. Conclusion: The results highlighted that education and training was needed among nurses to gain knowledge on how to safeguard children and establish mandatory reporting. Thus, support from colleagues and managers agencies dealing with child safety was highly valued by nurses. Implementation of education, training and support could improve the cooperation in protecting children.
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Scott, Deborah Anne. "Improving the measurement and surveillance of child abuse in Queensland emergency departments." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60054/1/Deborah_Scott_Thesis.pdf.
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There are no population studies of prevalence or incidence of child maltreatment in Australia. Child protection data gives some understanding but is restricted by system capacity and definitional issues across jurisdictions. Child protection data currently suggests that numbers of reports are increasing yearly, and the child protection system then becomes focussed on investigating all reports and diluting available resources for those children who are most in need of intervention. A public health response across multiple agencies enables responses to child safety across the entire population. All families are targeted at the primary level; examples include ensuring all parents know the dangers of shaking a baby or teaching children to say no if a situation makes them uncomfortable. The secondary level of prevention targets families with a number of risk factors, for example subsidised child care so children aren't left unsupervised after school when both parents have to be at work or home visiting for drug-addicted parents to ensure children are cared for. The tertiary response then becomes the responsibility of the child protection system and is reserved for those children where abuse and neglect are identified. This model requires that child safety is seen in a broader context than just the child protection system, and increasingly health professionals are being identified as an important component in the public health framework.
If all injury is viewed as preventable and considered along a continuum of 'accidental' through to 'inflicted', it becomes possible to conceptualise child maltreatment in an injury context. Parental intent may not be to cause harm to the child, but by lack of insight or concern about risk, the potential for injury is high. The mechanisms for unintentional and intentional injury overlap and some suggest that by segregating child abuse (with the possible exception of sexual abuse) from unintentional injury, child abuse is excluded from the broader injury prevention initiative that is gaining momentum in the community. This research uses a public health perspective, specifically that of injury prevention, to consider the problem of child abuse.
This study employed a mixed method design that incorporates secondary data analysis, data linkage and structured interviews of different professional groups. Datasets from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) and The Department of Child Safety (DCS) were evaluated. Coded injury data was grouped according to intent of injury according to those with a code that indicated the ED presentation was due to child abuse, a code indicating that the injury was possibly due to abuse or, in the third group, the intent code indicated that the injury was unintentional and not due to abuse. Primary data collection from ED records was undertaken and information recoded to assess reliability and completeness. Emergency department data (QISU) was linked to Department of Child Safety Data to examine concordance and data quality. Factors influencing the collection and collation of these data were identified through structured interview methodology and analysed using qualitative methods.
Secondary analysis of QISU data indicated that codes lacking specific information on the injury event were more likely to also have an intent code indicating abuse than those records where there was specific information on the injury event. Codes for abuse appeared in only 1.2% of the 84,765 records analysed. Unintentional injury was the most commonly coded intent (95.3%).
In the group with a definite abuse code assigned at triage, 83% linked to a record with DCS and cases where documentation indicated police involvement were significantly more likely to be associated with a DCS record than those without such documentation. In those coded with an unintentional injury code, 22% linked to a DCS record with cases assigned an urgent triage category more likely to link than those with a triage category for resuscitation and children who presented to regional or remote hospitals more likely to link to a DCS record than those presenting to urban hospitals. Twenty-nine per cent of cases with a code indicating possible abuse linked to a DCS record. In documentation that indicated police involvement in the case, a code for unspecified activity when compared to cases with a code indicating involvement in a sporting activity and children less than 12 months of age compared to those in the 13-17 year old age group were all variables significantly associated with linkage to a DCS record.
Only 13% of records contained documentation indicating that child abuse and neglect were considered in the diagnosis of the injury despite almost half of the sample having a code of abuse or possible abuse.
Doctors and nurses were confident in their knowledge of the process of reporting child maltreatment but less confident about identifying child abuse and neglect and what should be reported. Many were concerned about implications of reporting, for the child and family and for themselves. A number were concerned about the implications of not reporting, mostly for the wellbeing of the child and a few in terms of their legal obligations as mandatory reporters.
The outcomes of this research will help improve the knowledge of barriers to effective surveillance of child abuse in emergency departments. This will, in turn, ensure better identification and reporting practises; more reliable official statistical collections and the potential of flagging high-risk cases to ensure adequate departmental responses have been initiated.
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Paulsen, Nicole. "Caregivers' experiences of the South African judicial system after the reporting of child sexual abuse / N.L. Paulsen." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9685.
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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is found to occur in alarming proportions worldwide. In South Africa, children represent almost half of the victims of known sexual abuse, and this is becoming a great concern, even being described as a silent epidemic. This alarming fact as well as the researcher’s experiences as a social worker in this field, resulted in her reviewing literature, in order to gain further insight into the current situation in South Africa. It was discovered that the number of successful CSA court cases reported to the Childline Western Cape centres, was significantly low, and that numerous complaints were being received by her colleagues at Childline from caregivers, regarding their dissatisfaction with the judicial system after reporting CSA. This dissertation therefore serves as a qualitative exploration of caregivers’ experiences of the South African judicial system after CSA has been reported. For the purpose of this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative research design so as to thoroughly describe the caregivers’ experiences.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants to gain rich descriptions of their experiences in this area. Three main themes that emerged through the content analysis were: the experiences with officials from the SAPS as part of the judicial system; the experiences with regard to social service delivery; and the experiences with the court and personnel as part of the judicial system.
Several conclusions were drawn. The first was that there were both positive and negative experiences with officials from SAPS. A further conclusion was that the lack of knowledge about procedures needing to be followed in cases of CSA, as well as the uncertainty shown by some SAPS officials with regard to how to go about dealing with child victims of sexual abuse, gave some participants the impression that SAPS officials lack adequate training in this regard The researcher concluded from the empirical findings and the literature that there is a general sense that CSA investigations are poorly conducted.
Another conclusion was that literature on statutory social service delivery in South Africa and the evaluation thereof seemed sparse. However, from the empirical findings regarding the participants’ descriptions, their experiences, particularly with statutory social workers, were negative. Finally, the researcher concluded that though literature indicated that several changes had been made in the judicial system so as to better deal with child victims of sexual abuse, the experiences of the participants indicated that challenges are still being experienced. The empirical findings indicated that caregivers of child victims of sexual abuse and their children had experienced great frustration when dealing with the judicial system after CSA had been reported. These frustrations were due to the investigation of CSA cases, the court process, and the lack of communication from prosecutors and other professionals in the judicial system.Thesis (MSW)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Townsend, Alicia. "QEEG and MMPI-2 patterns of adults reporting childhood sexual abuse: Determining differences and predictor models." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4383/.
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Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has been linked to a number of adult psychological maladies. The MMPI-2 has shown specific patterns such as an inverted V in the validity scales, a floating profile, and a 4-5-6 configuration to be present more often in adults who have experienced childhood trauma. Both children and adults who have experienced trauma have shown a number of neurophysiological differences when compared to non-traumatized individuals. However, little research has looked at differences in quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) patterns in these individuals. The purpose of this study is to determine differences seen in the MMPI-2 and the QEEG when comparing adults who report CSA to adults who deny any history of childhood abuse. Differences between the two groups in MMPI-2 basic scales and supplementary scales PK and PS were determined. This study also examined the ability to correctly classify individuals into the two groups using three patterns seen in the MMPI-2 basic scale profiles (inverted V, floating profile, and 4-5-6 configuration). In addition, this research included exploratory analyses to develop predictor models for CSA group membership. Predictors in the models were derived from MMPI-2 scales, alpha relative power at each of the 19 sites in the International 10/20 electrode placement system, as well as alpha/delta, alpha/theta, and alpha/beta ratios at each of the 19 sites. A total of 46 participants were included in this study, 24 from archived files and 22 newly recruited individuals. Each participant received a MMPI-2 and a QEEG. Significant differences were found between the MMPI-2 scores of the two groups, but MMPI-2 patterns were unable to correctly classify individuals. Models were found which were clinically relevant and statistically significant. The models were based on depression and social maladjustment. The depression models included scales F and 2 of the MMPI-2 and alpha relative power at left frontal sites. The social maladjustment models included scales 4 and 8 of the MMPI-2 and alpha relative power at temporal sites. These findings support previous research showing higher levels of pathology in MMPI-2 profiles and evidence for temporal and left-frontal differences in adults who report CSA.
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Fornander, Camilla, and Josefine Karlsson. "Sjuksköterskans erfarenheter i mötet med barn som far illa." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för omvårdnad, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-22615.
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Sverige har en lagstadgad anmälningsplikt som är obligatorisk för alla som i sitt arbete kommer i kontakt med barn. Lagen är tydlig med att alla misstänka missförhållanden skall anmälas. Forskning visar att anmälningsplikten inte alltid fungerar och att det bara är en liten del av de barn som riskerar att fara illa som kommer till socialtjänstens kännedom. Vidare forskning visar att få anmälningar kommer från hälso- och sjukvården. Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskans erfarenheter i mötet med barn som far illa eller riskerar att fara illa. Litteraturstudien genomfördes med kvalitativ design och sökningar har gjorts i CINAHL, MEDLINE och PsycINFO. Åtta artiklar ansågs relevanta. Under analysen framkom tre teman: en emotionell utmaning, att känna sig begränsad och att våga agera. Resultatet visar att sjuksköterskan blir berörd i mötet med barn som far illa. Vidare beskriver sjuksköterskan osäkerhet, bristande kunskap och brister i organisationen. Sjuksköterskans professionella trygghet beskrivs utifrån kunskap och förvärvad erfarenhet. Det är angeläget att sjuksköterskans yrkeskompetens upprätthålls samt att det finns stöd att tillgå för att utveckla omvårdnaden kring barn som far illa.In Sweden, everyone who comes in contact with children through their work has a statutory obligation to report child abuse. The law clearly states that any suspected child abuse must be reported. Research shows that the reporting does not always work. Only a small proportion of the children who might be victims of abuse come to the knowledge of Social Services. Further research shows that few notifications come from individuals within the health care system. The aim of this literature review was to describe nurses’ experiences of encounters with chil-dren who are victims of abuse or who are at risk of being abused. A qualitative design was used. CINAHL, MEDLINE and PsycINFO were used to select the articles, eight of which met the selection criteria. During the analysis, three themes emerged: An Emotional Challenge, Feeling Limited, and Daring to Act. The results show that the nurses are emotionally affected by their contact with abused children. The nurses also describe feelings of insecurity, a lack of knowledge, and organizational deficiencies. The nurses’ professional security is described as stemming from knowledge and experience. It is very important that the nurses’ professional competence is maintained and that there is support available in order to develop the care of abused children.
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Petrisson, Adam. "Facing Barriers to Report. A qualitative study of professionals’ experience on the process of reporting child maltreatment." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24599.
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Tidigare forskning har visat att barn som far illa innan 18 års ålder är signifikant mer associerade med ett flertal olika mått på kriminalitet, t.ex. självrapporterad kriminalitet, officiella arresteringar, brottsfrekvens, våldsbrott samt droganvändning. Att reducera antalet barn som far illa kan därför ses som brottsförebyggande åtgärd. I Sverige har vissa yrkesprofessionella en lagstadgad skyldighet att anmäla till socialtjänsten vid misstanke om barn som far illa. Tidigare forskning har visat att yrkesprofessionella ofta misslyckas med att anmäla till myndigheter. Den här studien tar sikte på att fördjupa kunskapen och förståelsen av anmälningsprocessen. Den här studien använder kvalitativ analys och intervjuar skolpersonal om deras upplevelser av anmälningsprocessen. Intervjuerna analyseras genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultaten av denna studie återspeglar den tidigare forskningen i många aspekter. Analysen resulterade i fyra olika kategorier; utbildning, erfarenhet av socialtjänsten, rädsla för konsekvenser av att anmäla och anmälningsrutin. Vidare visar resultaten att skolpersonalen inte är tillräckligt utbildade om barn som far illa eller hur man ska anmäla det, att man har negativa erfarenheter av socialtjänsten, har rädsla för konsekvenserna av en anmälan samt att man har en rutin som inte underlättar anmälningsprocessen. Konklusionen av dessa resultat är att utbildningen bör förbättras samt att anmälningsrutinen bör förändras för att säkerställa att fler misstankar om barn som far illa når socialtjänsten i form av en anmälan. Vidare bör skolan och socialtjänsten samarbeta i en högre utsträckning än vad som sker idag.Previous research has shown that children suffering from abuse, neglect or maltreatment before turning 18 are significantly associated with several measurements of delinquency, such as self-reported and official incidence of arrest, offending frequency, violent crimes and drug-use. Thus, reducing child maltreatment can be seen as a crime prevention strategy. In Sweden, certain professionals have a mandatory responsibility to report child maltreatment to authorities. Previous research has shown that professionals often fail to report to authorities. This thesis aims at deepen the knowledge and understanding of the process of reporting and adopts a qualitative approach, interviewing school personnel about their experience, and their perceived barriers to report. The interviews are analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The results of this thesis mirrors in many aspects what have been found in previous research. The analysis found four main categories, education, experience of the social services, fear of consequences of making a report and reporting routine. The results indicate that school personnel are not sufficiently educated on child maltreatment or how to report it, have negative experience of the social services, holds fear about various aspects of reporting and deploy reporting routines that might not facilitate reporting. The implications drawn from this thesis is that school personnel need to be educated to facilitate reporting, but also that reporting routines need to be altered in order to increase reporting. Further, schools and the social services need to collaborate to a greater extent than today.
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Jonsson, Fredrica, and Cecilia Andersson. "Sjuksköterskans agerande vid misstanke om barnmisshandel : en litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-10888.
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Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva sjuksköterskans agerande vid misstanke om barnmisshandel, vilka faktorer som påverkar beslutet att anmäla eller inte anmäla vid misstanke om barnmisshandel samt granska och redovisa artiklarnas vetenskapliga kvalitet. Metoden var en deskriptiv litteraturstudie och artiklar söktes i databasen Medline via Pubmed. Sökningen resulterade i tio artiklar. Resultatet visade att sjuksköterskans iakttagelseförmåga var den viktigaste egenskapen för att upptäcka barnmisshandel. Vid misstanke avvaktade sjuksköterskan sina åtgärder, anmälan skedde när säkra bevis fanns. I resultatet framkom behov av utbildning och samarbetet mellan sjuksköterskor, läkare och socialarbetare kunde förbättras för att skydda barnet. Osäkerhet och bristande kunskap kring rapportering hindrade sjuksköterskans agerande och rädsla för sin egen säkerhet medförde att en anmälan inte alltid blev gjord. Fakta kring barnmisshandel tas upp bristfälligt i sjuksköterskans grundutbildning vilket ökar osäkerheten kring agerande och rapportering. Sjuksköterskans attityd till barnmisshandel inverkade på beslutet att rapportera eller inte. Fysiska- och sexuella övergrepp ansågs lättare att identifiera än psykisk misshandel. Kvalitén, utifrån granskning av urval/bortfall, anses vara hög i de kvalitativa studierna och i de kvantitativa studierna var variationen i kvalitet stor. Slutsatsen är att många sjuksköterskor känner osäkerhet kring agerande och rapportering. Tydliga riktlinjer och ett bättre samarbete mellan olika yrkesgrupper behövs.The purpose of this literature review was to describe the nurse's actions in cases of suspected child abuse, what factors influence the decision to report or not report suspected child abuse and to examine the quality of the studies from a scientific perspective. The method was a descriptive review and articles were searched in Medline database through PubMed. The search resulted in ten articles. The result showed that the nurse's observation was the most important characteristic to detect child abuse. With suspicion of child abuse they only acted when solid evidence existed. The study found a need for training among the nurses and that cooperation between professional groups involved could be improved. Uncertainty about reporting was an obstacle to the nurse's actions. A fear for the nurses own safety meant that a notification was not always made. There is a general deficiency of education within this area which increases the uncertainty surrounding the conduct and reporting. Nurse's attitude to child abuse had an effect on the decision to report or not. Physical and sexual abuse was easier to identify than emotional abuse. The quality of selection and non-response was considered to be high in the qualitative studies, and the quantitative studies had a variation in quality. The conclusion is that many nurses feel uncertain about the conduct and reporting. Clear guidelines and better cooperation between professional groups are needed.
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Rust, Nolene. "A protocol for the empowerment of non–offending parents to report child sexual abuse / Rust N." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7305.
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The statistics of child sexual abuse is alarmingly high. Even though this is the case,
further statistics prove that a great percentage of parents do not ever report the
sexual abuse of their child. This study focuses on describing and exploring nonoffending
parents' experiences regarding suspicions of or disclosure of their child’s
sexual abuse to ultimately formulate a proposed protocol for the empowerment of
non–offending parents to report the abuse. This proposed protocol can be used by
health professionals to empower parents to report and will contribute to the
intervention strategies in forensic investigations.
As research methodology, the qualitative approach was utilized to investigate nonoffending
parents' experiences regarding suspicions of or disclosure of their child’s
sexual abuse and to explore and describe a protocol of guidelines to empower nonoffending
parents to report child sexual abuse. The case study method was used as
a research strategy to accomplish these aims. Ten interviews and a focus group
were conducted during which an interview schedule focussing on the parents'
reactions, perceived support, and experiences of reporting was employed.
The schedule was presented based on the following themes:
Theme 1: Finding out about the sexual abuse
Theme 2: Reactions of the parents
Theme 3: Support
Theme 4: Reporting the child's sexual abuse
Theme 5: Parents' experiences of the reporting process
Theme 6: Suggestions to make the reporting process easier
Subthemes, as elicited by these themes, were explored and described in order to
contribute towards the formulation of an appropriate protocol that would empower
parents to report child sexual abuse. It became clear that parents experience a vast
array of emotions upon finding out or having suspicions of their child's sexual abuse.
The parents who participated in this study indicated the need for support on different
levels– it was proposed that more support might subsequently increase reporting
rates. The parents involved in this study were in agreement that the reporting
process is extremely taxing and, based on this, various aspects that could help make the reporting of child sexual abuse easier for parents were explored. Further
recommendations to empower parents to report child sexual abuse were also made.
The data from the interviews was analyzed and a protocol to empower non–offending
parents to report child sexual abuse was formulated.Thesis (M.A. (MW))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Nessen, Maria. "Reporting suspected child abuse : a case study of knowledge and behaviors of paraeducators in a secondary setting in a midwestern school district /." Search for this dissertation online, 2006. http://www.lib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Walsh, Kerryann. "Early childhood teachers and child abuse and neglect: A critical study of their work and knowledge." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36659/1/36659_Digitsed%20Thesis.pdf.
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The field of child abuse and neglect contains a corpus of literature regarding teachers and child abuse and neglect. The literature, dominated by medical and scientific discourses, constructs the teacher's role, shapes what teachers should know, and influences policies and practices in care and education settings, and in the field of child protection. This thesis addresses a gap in this literature, particularly regarding authentic documentation of how teachers work in child abuse and neglect and what knowledge they apply in this work.
This study is a multimethod qualitative inquiry into teachers' work and knowledge in child abuse and neglect. The research was conducted in three phases. In phase one, early childhood teachers were invited to participate in research about their experiences of working with children with a history of abuse or neglect. Teachers from 207 different early childhood settings, in a geographical area with a recognised high incidence of child abuse and neglect were approached. No teachers were willing or able to participate in the research - they were silent. Phase two investigated the reasons for this silence by using interview and survey methods to ask the teachers and other professionals in the field, to explain why the teachers were silent. Fourteen key informants and 80 early childhood teachers' views are presented in this phase. Phase three returned the focus of the study to teachers' work and knowledge, and presents the voices of eight early childhood teachers who were willing and able to speak in detail about their work and knowledge in child abuse and neglect when they were approached from within common professional networks, in which there were established relationships of trust. Paradoxically, in this study there was silence and there were voices.
Using critical theories, this study reveals that research into child abuse and neglect was problematic because it was perceived to be sensitive and potentially damaging. The research was disenabled (silenced) in ways which protect existing relations of power which, in turn, benefit from both the conservation of silences about child abuse and neglect among early childhood practitioners, and maintenance of the conditions under which this silence was produced. When the teachers spoke about their work and knowledge, it appeared that their actions in relation to child abuse and neglect did not accord directly with the role that the literature ascribes for them, but reflected the broader characteristics of effective early childhood teaching practice. Early childhood teachers' work, therefore, may not be recognised easily by those outside care and education as constituting legitimate prevention and intervention in child abuse and neglect, and this has consequences for how early childhood practitioners are perceived in the field. This research explains teachers' apparent marginal positioning in the field of child abuse and neglect. It proposes that a more accurate representation of teachers' work in the field should reflect the concept of multiple roles rather than a singular role. This research refutes notions of teachers as incompetent and unknowledgeable regarding child abuse and neglect, but recognises that they are often absent from, and invisible within, the collective of professionals working to stop and prevent it.
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Rule, Deirdre Margo. "Factors that influence the reporting of child sexual abuse amongst primary school teachers in South Africa: an application of the theory of planned behaviour." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24926.
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Child sexual abuse is a prevalent problem in South Africa – one in every three children is sexually abused before the age of 18. Sexually abused children have serious psychological, physical and social problems which cause further difficulties into adulthood. Most abusers are known to their victims and thus, victims do not always disclose the abuse. Therefore, the law compels the reporting of child sexual abuse suspicions by third parties. However, past research shows that mandated reporters do not always report child sexual abuse suspicions. This study aimed to investigate the factors related to the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse amongst primary school teachers in South Africa. A cross-sectional research study, using self-administered survey questionnaires, was conducted amongst foundation phase teachers in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Grounded on the theory of planned behaviour, this study investigated the relationships between various independent variables with the teacher's intention to report child sexual abuse. The independent variables tested included the teachers' attitude towards reporting, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, knowledge on mandatory reporting, past reporting behaviour and socio-demographic characteristics of teachers. From a total population of 1118 public primary schools (and estimated 9542 foundation phase teachers), using stratified random sampling, a total of 2032 questionnaires were hand-delivered to 200 schools randomly selected across the Western Cape. A total of 399 foundation phase teachers participated in this study, representing a 20% response rate. This study found that about 25% of teachers had reported at least one case of child sexual abuse during their teaching career. About 7% of the teachers in this study had encountered instances in which they had failed to report suspected child sexual abuse. Subjective norm and perceived behavioural control (but not attitude towards reporting) was found to predict intention to report amongst teachers. A teacher who reported child sexual abuse in the past as well as a teacher with more accurate knowledge on mandatory reporting, was more likely to have intention to report in the future. Contrary to that posited by the theory of planned behaviour, attitude towards reporting did not mediate the relationship between past reporting behaviour and intention to report nor the relationship between knowledge on mandatory reporting and intention to report. The study further found that older teachers with more years teaching experience, although having a lower education level, were more likely to report their suspicions. Younger teachers, with less teaching experience, although better educated than their older counterparts, indicated less likelihood of reporting. The theory of planned behaviour, although significant, could not on its own effectively be applied to teachers' intention to report child sexual abuse and further investigation identified other explanatory factors that influenced teachers' intention to report. Given the high prevalence of child sexual abuse, the results have important implications. Whilst the teachers' age, years teaching experience or past reporting behaviour cannot be controlled, teachers must be adequately trained and supported. Knowing how to recognize and report child sexual abuse must be integrated into the tertiary education qualifications of student teachers as well as in continuing in-service training initiatives of current teachers. Furthermore, schools and the entire child protection system, must be supportive to teachers in their reporting duties.
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Holmberg, Lena, and Arzi Lokrantz. "Distriktssköterskors erfarenheter av anmälningsplikten till socialtjänsten när barn far illa." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap (HV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37303.
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Bakgrund: Distriktssköterskor som arbetar inom barnhälsovården möter i sitt arbete de flesta familjerna ute i samhället och har möjlighet att komma i kontakt med barn som far illa. Misstankar att barn far illa måste anmälas till socialtjänsten. Anmälan om misstankar kan leda till etiska dilemman där rättvisa, att göra gott och inte skada skapar konflikter. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att inom BHV belysa sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av anmälningsplikten till socialtjänsten, vid misstankar om barn som far illa. Metod: Studien genomfördes utifrån en kvalitativ ansats. Sex distriktssköterskor inom barnhälsovården deltog vid semistrukturerade intervjuer. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys på manifest nivå. Resultat: Studiens resultat presenteras i fyra huvudkategorier och elva underkategorier. Relation till föräldrarna: Sjuksköterskorna ansåg att det är viktigt att vara ärlig och informera föräldrarna om sin oro vilket oftast ledde till ett bra samarbete. Relationen till föräldrarna kan bli sämre efter en anmälan och då finns risk att ingen ser barnets bästa. Ibland kan empati för föräldrarna göra att en anmälan blir svår. Kontakt med socialtjänsten: Hälften av sjuksköterskorna ansåg att de hade en bra samverkan med socialtjänsten. Ofta och anonymt kontaktade sjuksköterskorna socialtjänsten för att rådfråga för att få hjälp och stöd vid misstankar. Återkoppling från socialtjänsten har blivit bättre efter en lagändring 2013. Kunskap om anmälningsplikten: Samtliga sjuksköterskor hade kunskap om anmälningsplikten, dess rutiner och var man kan finna riktlinjer. Känslomässigt förhållningssätt: Sjuksköterskorna upplevde blandade känslor vid en anmälan. Vid misstankar övervägde de noga om de skulle göra en anmälan eller inte. Ibland var det svårt att göra en anmälan eftersom det finns olika åsikter om vad fara illa innebär, beroende på kunskap och personliga erfarenheter. Slutsats: Det förekommer att sjuksköterskor underlåter att anmäla misstankar till socialtjänsten. Sjuksköterskors plikt att anmäla är ett etiskt dilemma vilket skapar osäkerhet och oro, och förknippas med bland annat erfarenhet, känslomässigt förhållningssätt och kunskap. För att underlätta processen av en anmälan är en bra samverkan med familjerna och socialtjänsten, diskussioner om innebörden av att fara illa och stöd i övervägningsfasen nödvändigt.Background: Districtnurses which are working in pediatric health care encounter most of the families in the community and have the probability to come in contact with child abuse. Suspicions of child abuse must be reported to social services. The requirement to report cases of suspected child abuse can lead to ethical dilemmas in which justice, to do good and not harm creates conflicts. Aim: The aim of this research was to describe the districtnurses' experience of the obligation to report to social services, in cases of suspected child abuse. Method: The research was based on a qualitative methodology. Six districtnurses working in primary health care participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The results of the research are presented in four main categories and eleven subcategories. Relationship to parents: The districtnurses felt that it is important to be honest and inform parents about their concerns, which often led to a good cooperation. The relationship to the parents can be worse after a report of suspected child abuse, which can result in that no one can see the child´s best. Empathy for the parents sometimes makes it difficult to report suspected child abuse. Contact with social services: Fifty percent of the districtnurses felt that they had good relationships and interactions with the social services. Frequently in cases of suspected child abuse districtnurses anonymously contact social services for support and help. Feedback from the social services is better after the law changed 2013. Emotional attitudes: The districtnurses experienced mixed emotions when reporting a case of suspected child abuse, they carefully considered whether or not to report. Depending on knowledge and personal experiences sometimes reporting was difficult because of different opinions about what constitutes child abuse. Knowledge of the reporting obligation: All the districtnurses had knowledge of the mandatory reporting, its procedures and where one could find guidelines. Conclusion: It happens that districtnurses do not report suspicions to social services. Districtnurses' duty to report is an ethical dilemma, which creates uncertainty and anxiety, and is associated with for example experience, emotional attitudes and knowledge. To facilitate the process of reporting is a good interaction with the families and the social services, discussions about the meaning of child abuse and support under the decissionmaking phase necessary.
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Blacker, Caroline, and Jeanette Simonsson. "Att anmäla när ett barn far illa : en litteraturöversikt kring sjuksköterskors upplevelser av anmälningsprocessen och påverkande faktorer." Thesis, Sophiahemmet Högskola, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:shh:diva-4129.
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Bakgrund Barn som far illa är ett globalt folkhälsoproblem där mörkertalet är stort. All form av våld leder till livslånga konsekvenser för barn som utsätts, och de berättar sällan självmant om levnadsförhållanden när dessa är annat än goda. Vilket gör att sjuksköterskors professionella ansvar är betydelsefullt i mötet med utsatta barn. En av sjuksköterskans kärnkompetenser är personcentrerad vård där ett helhetsperspektiv kring barnet bör beaktas, då ett ansvar att identifiera och en skyldighet att anmäla vid misstanke om att barn far illa föreligger. Syfte Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av faktorer som inverkar på beslutet att orosanmäla vid misstanke eller vetskap av att ett barn far illa. Metod Föreliggande litteraturöversikt har genomförts med 17 inkluderade studier av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ studiedesign. Datainsamlingen genomfördes i databaserna Public MEDLINE och Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Studierna kvalitetsgranskades därefter utifrån Sophiahemmet Högskola bedömningsunderlag, på vilken en integrerad analys användes för bearbetning av resultatet. Resultat Litteraturöversiktens resultat beskrevs utifrån tre huvudkategorier: sjuksköterskans kunskap och perception av barn som far illa, sjuksköterskans erfarenhet av anmälningsprocessen samt sjuksköterskans arbetsmiljö. Med tillhörande subkategorier beskrev dessa sjuksköterskans upplevelser av faktorer som inverkade på beslutet huruvida sjuksköterskan genomförde en orosanmälan eller ej. Slutsats Sjuksköterskors erfarenhet, personliga inställning till området samt rådande lagstiftning i respektive land var faktorer som inverkade vid processen kring orosanmälningar. Resultatet visade behov av stöd och hjälp i processen som rör handhavandet kring barn som far illa. Vidden av detta globala folkhälsoproblem bör uppmärksammas då en utebliven orosanmälan bidrog till ytterligare lidande för det redan utsatta barnet. Flertalet sjuksköterskor saknade kunskap i det medföljande juridiska ansvar en orosanmälan kräver, vilket uppmärksammade behovet av adekvat utbildning och uppdaterad klinisk färdighetsträning.Background Child maltreatment is a global public health problem where the hidden statistics are extensive. All forms of violence lead to lifelong consequences for children who are exposed, and they rarely disclose their living conditions as these are anything but good. This means that nurses' professional responsibilities are important in meeting with vulnerable children. One of the nurse's core competencies is person-centered care, where a holistic perspective on the child should be considered, as there is a responsibility to identify and an obligation to report in the event of suspicion that a child is being harmed. Aim The aim was to describe nurses' experiences of factors that influence the decision of mandatory reporting to suspected or confirmed child maltreatment. Method The literature review has been conducted with 17 included studies of both qualitative and quantitative study design. The data collection was conducted in the databases Public MEDLINE and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. The studies were then quality-examined based on Sophiahemmet University's assessment data, on which an integrated analysis was used to process the results. Results The results of the literature review are described based on three main categories: the nurse's knowledge and perception of child maltreatment, the nurse's experience of the registration process, and the nurse's working environment. With associated subcategories, these describe the nurse's experience of factors that may influence the decision whether the nurse makes a report on child maltreatment or not. Conclusions Nurses' experience, personal attitude to the field, and prevailing legislation in each country are factors that influence the process of reporting regarding concerns about child maltreatment. The results showed the need for support and help in the process of dealing with child maltreatment. The extent of this global public health problem should be noted, as a failure to report contributes to further suffering for the already vulnerable child. Most nurses lacked knowledge of the legal responsibilities required to report a concern of child maltreatment, which drew attention to the need for adequate education and up-to-date clinical skills training.
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Watts, Vivienne J. "Child protection in schools: Advancing teachers from intuitive to rational thinking in child protection decision making." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36562/1/36562_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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The number of notifications of child abuse is increasing rapidly so that, if the present trend continues, Australian child protection services will receive over half a million notifications of suspected child abuse in the year 2007, ten years hence. This trend has implications for teachers who contact children on a daily basis. Teachers have a duty of care for the children who are compelled to attend school, yet teachers currently have a poor record of reporting. The current preparation of Australian teachers for. participation in child protection is inconsistent with mandatory reporting requirements and inadequate for teachers' child protection role.
It was assumed that the aim of child protection training should be to improve teachers' child protection decision making, consequently, the purpose of the present study was to illuminate and analyse preservice teachers' child protection decision making at the point of entry to their preservice course. In so doing, the study focused specifically on the nature of participants' knowledge, beliefs, perceptions and experiences likely to influence their child protection decisions.
The literature was reviewed for the purpose of identifying existing child protection programs and factors known to inhibit or enhance teachers' decisions to report suspected abuse. Since the purpose of the study was to understand and illuminate participants' subjective knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, and experiences, and the likely influence of these factors on child protection decision making, an interpretive orientation was used. Data collection methods included the administration of questionaries, presentation of a videotaped child protection scenario as a stimulus to discussion, transcription and analysis of small group discussions, and a reflective activity.
Findings indicated that preservice teachers' intuitive decision making was dependent primarily on their interpersonal perceptions of the stakeholders, their personal beliefs, and their past experiences which interacted with each other. Knowledge played only a minimal role. The findings of the study contribute to the child protection literature by linking the role of beliefs, perceptions, knowledge and experiences with teachers' decision making in relation to child protection.
Robinson's (1993) Problem-Based Methodology was used to develop a child protection curriculum framework for use by teacher educators in preservice teacher education from the findings of the study. The findings illuminated how preservice teachers make child protection decisions at the point of entry to their preservice course.
The study is significant in that it found that knowledge played a limited role in child protection decision making, suggesting that programs which aim to improve teachers' knowledge of definitions, signs and reporting procedures can be expected to be ineffective. On the other hand, programs which also consider the role of teachers' beliefs, experiences and perceptions are more likely to be effective.
The findings imply that preservice child protection programs should include not only the skills necessary for child protection decision making, but also a metacognitive understanding of the decision making process in order to advance preservice teachers from intuitive to more rational bases of child protection decision making.
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Bergfoth, Emelie, and Helene Schröter. "Anmälan vid misstanke att barn far illa : Vårdpersonals inställning och erfarenheter: en enkätstudie." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-324415.
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Bakgrund I Sverige har de som i sitt yrke har kontakt med barn skyldigheten att anmäla till socialtjänsten om de misstänker att ett barn far illa. Det har dock visat sig att hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal är mindre benägna att anmäla jämfört med andra professioner. Syfte Att undersöka på vilka grunder sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor väljer att rapportera misstankar om att barn far illa till socialtjänsten – eller att inte göra det – samt om det föreligger några skillnader i det avseendet mellan personal med lång och kort yrkeserfarenhet. Metod En komparativ tvärsnittsstudie. Data samlades in genom enkäter med sjuk- och undersköterskor som arbetade inom barnsjukvård vid två svenska sjukhus. Resultat Totalt deltog 60 sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor. Knappt hälften av dessa (n=23, 38,3%) hade någon gång gjort en anmälan. Deltagarna ansåg det mest troligt att de skulle upptäcka och anmäla i samband med fysisk misshandel (n=55, 91,7%), men de flesta anmälningar som de gjort var relaterade till omsorgssvikt (n=42, 75%). Det fanns en gränssignifikant skillnad (p=0.079) i orsak till anmälan där vårdpersonal med lång erfarenhet (n=29, 48,4%) oftare anmält för psykisk misshandel/omsorgssvikt (n=15, 65,2%) jämfört med vårdpersonal med kort erfarenhet (n=31, 51,6%). Dessa hade anmält för psykisk misshandel/omsorgssvikt vid åtta (n=8, 34,8%) tillfällen. Slutsats Det finns ingen bevisskyldighet för den som gör en anmälan. Trots detta hade hälften av deltagarna vid något tillfälle misstänkt att ett barn farit illa men inte anmält det. Det fanns inga skillnader i antalet gjorda anmälningar i relation till yrkeserfarenhet; dock fanns det en tendens att erfaren vårdpersonal oftare anmälde p.g.a. orsaker som kan anses vara något svårare att upptäcka.Background In Sweden, all professionals working with children are obliged to report any suspicions of child maltreatment to the child protective services. However, health care professionals are less likely to report child maltreatment than other professionals. Aim The aim was to investigate on what grounds nurses and assistant nurses report – or do not report – suspicions of child maltreatment to the child protective services, and whether there are differences in reporting depending on work experience. Method A comparative cross-sectional study. Data were collected using a survey among nurses and assistant nurses working in paediatric care at two Swedish hospitals. Results In total, 60 nurses and assistant nurses completed the survey. Close to half of them (n=23, 38.3%) had at least once reported a suspected case of child maltreatment. The participants considered it most likely that they would identify and report physical abuse (n=55, 91.7%), yet most of the actual reports made were related to some other type of neglect (n=42, 75%). A borderline significant difference (p=0.079) was found in the purpose of reporting, where those with long experience (n=29, 48,4%) reported more often for psychiatric abuse/neglect (n=15, 65,2%) compared to those with short experience (n=31, 51,6%), who had reported for psychiatric abuse/neglect on eight (n=8, 34,8%) occasions. Conclusion No proofs are required of the one who makes a report, yet half of the participants had on some occasion had suspicions of child maltreatment without reporting this. There were no differences in the number of reports made in relation to professional experience, but there was a tendency that experienced nurses and assistant nurses had reported more often due to reasons that can be considered more difficult to identify.
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Greco, Ana Martina. "Children and youth victimization: Detection and reporting from school staff members." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672576.
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Violence affects many children and youth, causing devastating effects. Schools are in an ideal position to prevent, detect and report potential victimization cases. Yet, studies have found several limitations to perform these tasks, like misconceptions or lack of knowledge and resources. Besides, the empirical evidence of the effect of each of these variables in the detection and reporting experience is limited.
This thesis composed by three original empirical studies addresses the experience of school staff members with children and youth victimization, its detection and the reporting of potential cases, as well as their level of knowledge. The studies have been published as detailed in the “Studies” section.
The sample for studies 1 and 2 was composed by 184 staff members between 22 and 64 years old (84.04% females, M = 43.40, SD = 10.37). Sample for study 3 included 453 school staff members (83.53% females) between 22 and 65 years old (M = 42.23, SD = 9.46). Participants answered a self-administered questionnaire created ad·hoc , including questions about experience with victimization (e.g., “Have you received any training regarding child victimization?”), its detection (e.g., “How many times during your career did you suspect that a minor might be being victimized?”) and its reporting (e.g., “Have you ever you report a child abuse suspicion to an external agency outside school (e.g., social services)?”). The level of knowledge was tested through statements about victimization (e.g., “Child victimization affects less than 10% of minors in Spain”) , its detection (e.g., “A minor growing up in a one-parent family is more likely to experience victimization”) and its reporting (e.g., “If a suspicions turns out not to be true, the family is entitled to sue the informant”) that participants had to classify as true, false or unknown. Descriptive statistics (i.e., frequencies, percentages, proportions, means and standard deviations), bivariate (i.e., Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis test with their corresponding effect sizes) multivariate (i.e., logistic regression) and qualitative analysis were used to respond to each study’s aims.
A small proportion of school staff has ever been trained regarding childhood and youth victimization. Over 70% has suspected that a student might be being victimized at least once. However, only around 40% of those who ever detected a potential case reported outside school. The majority of those who reported perceived the intervention that followed the report as beneficial for the child’s well-being. The decision not to report was mostly based on what happened once participants shared their concerns within the school. Other reasons not to report were thinking that their suspicions needed to be serious or certain, unclear definitions, feeling they were not entitled, lack of knowledge and fears. With each year of experience, the likelihood to detect a potential case increased by one time. The likelihood of reporting was significantly higher among school staff with accurate and concrete knowledge in reporting procedures (e.g., anonymity, need for the principal’s consent). Reporter’s gender (i.e., males were more likely to report than females) or the role they performed in school (i.e., workers who only came into contact with children specifically or sporadically reported significantly less than those who spent at least for hours a day in charge of groups of students) were also relevant.
Results found complement previous research by quantifying the proportion of suspicions of potential victimization cases that go underreported from school. Findings contribute to dispel misconceptions about the efficiency of social services interventions and suggest ways in which early report can be increased. Empirical evidence of the effect of specific aspects of knowledge in reporting is provided and internal school dynamics that might prevent some concerns to reach external agencies are described.Las escuelas están en posición ideal para prevenir, detectar y notificar potenciales casos de violencia, pero los estudios reportan limitaciones como la persistencia de falsas creencias o falta de conocimiento y recursos. La presente tesis, compuesta por tres investigaciones originales, estudia la experiencia y el conocimiento de trabajadores escolares respecto de la victimización infantil y adolescente, su detección y notificación. La muestra de los estudios 1 y 2 fue de 184 trabajadores escolares de entre 22 y 64 años (84,04% mujeres, M = 43,40, DT = 10,37). En el estudio 3 se incluyeron 453 sujetos (83,53% mujeres) de entre 22 y 65 años (M = 42,23, DT = 9,46). Los participantes respondieron a un cuestionario autoadministrado creado ad·hoc, que incluía preguntas sobre victimización, detección y notificación. Se evaluó el nivel de conocimiento con frases que debían clasificarse como ciertas, falsas o desconocidas. Se obtuvieron estadísticos descriptivos, se hicieron análisis bivariados, multivariante y cualitativos para responder a los objetivos de cada estudio. Una minoría se ha formado en victimización. Más del 70% ha sospechado que alguno de sus estudiantes podría estar siendo victimizado/a. De ellos, sólo el 40% notificó alguna vez por fuera de la escuela. La mayoría de quienes habían notificado consideraron que la posterior intervención fue beneficiosa para el menor. La decisión de no notificar se tomó mayormente luego de compartir la sospecha con otros miembros del equipo. Con cada año de experiencia, la probabilidad de detectar al menos un potencial caso de victimización se incrementa una vez. La probabilidad de notificar es significativa más alta entre los participantes que tienen conocimiento concreto del procedimiento. El género o el cargo también resultaron relevantes. Esta tesis complementa trabajos anteriores cuantificando la proporción potenciales casos de victimización que no se notifican a autoridades exteriores desde la escuela. Los resultados contribuyen a desmitificar opiniones adversas sobre la eficiencia de los servicios sociales y sugieren maneras de aumentar la notificación temprana.
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Peterson, Martina. "Att möta barn som far illa : Sjuksköterskans agerande och erfarenheter." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för omvårdnad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36172.
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Ask, Linnéa, and Malin Stein. "Barns rätt att inte fara illa : Sjuksköterskans utmaningar vid misstanke om barnmisshandel - en litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-396925.
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Bakgrund Barnmisshandel är ett globalt hälsoproblem med både svåra direkta och långtgående konsekvenser. I tidigare forskning ses var femte barn uppge sig blivit utsatt för någon typ av barnmisshandel. Vuxna som blivit utsatta för barnmisshandel har en ökad risk för psykisk- och fysisk ohälsa. Sjuksköterskan har en viktig del i att följa barnets utveckling och att arbeta för en trygg uppväxt där förebygga och upptäcka barnmisshandel ingår. Syfte Att undersöka vilka hinder som finns att en orosanmälan inte utförs i en situation där ett barn misstänks utsättas för eller vid kännedom utsätts för barnmisshandel. Vidare är syftet också att undersöka vilken kunskap och stöd som behövs för att öka möjligheterna att dessa barn upptäcks i mötet med sjuksköterskan och att åtgärder verkställs. Metod En litteraturgranskning av kvalitativa studier med Evans metod för dataanalys och resultatet presenterades i en beskrivande syntes. Resultat Hinder som försvårar upptäck och anmälan gällande barnmisshandel identifierades, så som organisation, brist på kompetens, personliga barriärer samt svåra möten. Behov av utbildning och stöd gällande upptäckt och anmäla kring barnmisshandel sågs. Slutsats Barns rätt att inte fara illa kan förbättras genom att eliminera hinder. Förbättringar inom organisationen som kontinuerligt stöd och utbildning främjar upptäckt och ökar orosanmälningar vid misstanke om barnmisshandel. Sjuksköterskans insikt gällande skyldigheter är viktigt att fokusera på, att våga ge stöd till barn som uttrycker utsatthet och våga möta känslor av rädsla och obehag ökar möjligheterna att hitta barn som utsätts för barnmisshandel.Background Child abuse is a global health issue that causes severe consequences in early life development and adulthood. Every fifth child are exposed to child abuse. Adults who have experienced child abuse have a higher risk for mental and physical illness. Monitoring the child’s progress and making sure they have a safe home environment is important. Purpose To explore what obstacle there is for nurses not to report child abuse in a situation where it is suspected or confirmed. It was also to explore what kind of knowledge and support the nurses need to increase their chances of identifying these children and to provide intervention. Method A review of qualitative studies were conducted with the method of Evans for the descriptive analysis. Results Several risks for not detecting or reporting child abuse were identified; organization, lack of skills, personal barriers and tough encounters. A focused need for education and support to detect and report child abuse were expressed. Conclusion The children’s right not to be harmed can be improved by eliminating barriers. Improvements within the organization, support and education promote detection and reports of concern in suspected child abuse and will reduce the potential for child harm. The nurse's understanding of responsibilities is a critical part to focus on. If nurses dare to provide support to children who express vulnerability and face their own feelings of fear and discomfort it would increase the opportunity to find children who are subjected to child abuse.
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Fagerberg, Emma. "Efter anmälan : - BVC-sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter ur ett etiskt perspektiv efter att de har anmält till socialtjänsten att barn far illa." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap (HV), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-28581.
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Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskor som arbetar på barnavårdcentral (BVC-sjuksköterskor) träffar 99,2 procent av alla barn. De har därför en viktig funktion när det gäller att upptäcka och rapportera barn som far illa. Trots anmälningsplikt är anmälningsfrekvensen låg. Det råder brist på studier kring hur det blir för BVC-sjuksköterskor efter att de har gjort en anmälan. Syfte: Att ur ett etiskt perspektiv undersöka BVC-sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter efter att de har anmält till socialtjänsten att barn far illa. Metod: Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med sex BVC-sjuksköterskor. Intervjuerna analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys på manifest nivå enligt Graneheim och Lundman. Resultat: BVC-sjuksköterskornas erfarenheter av samarbetet med socialtjänsten varierade. Alla informanterna menade dock att bristen på återkoppling var ett stort hinder. Relationen till föräldrarna kunde ibland bevaras eller fördjupas efter anmälan. Ibland skadades relationen och då ansågs byte av BVC-sjuksköterska som bra. Efter beslutet om anmälan fanns många känslor. Bland annat kände sig informanterna utsatta och var rädda för hot. Det fanns även en stor oro för barnet och moralisk stress förekom. Att anmäla upplevdes som att göra sin plikt. Stöd var viktigt och kunde göra tröskeln till ny anmälan mindre. Slutsats: BVC-sjuksköterskor upplever många svårigheter efter anmälan, vilket kan påverka anmälningsfrekvensen. Ett gott samarbete med socialtjänsten, handledning och tillräckligt med stöd efter anmälan, skulle kunna leda till fler anmälningar till socialtjänsten när barn far illa.Background: Nurses working in primary child healthcare meet 99,2 percent of the children in Sweden. Therefore they have an important role in finding and reporting child abuse and neglect. Despite mandatory reporting according to the law, the rate of reports is low. There is a lack of research about experiences from nurses after they have made a report to the social welfare board. Aim: To, from an ethical perspective, explore the experiences from nurses working in primary child healthcare after they have made a report to the social welfare board about child abuse or neglect. Method: Semistructured interviews were conducted with six nurses working in primary childhealth care. The interviews were analysed using qualitative content analysis on a manifest level according to Graneheim and Lundman. Results: Nurses working in primary child healthcare had a varying experience of the contact with the social welfare board. All respondents however, thought that the lack of feedback from the social welfare board was a major obstacle. The relation to the parents were sometimes preserved or even deeper after the report. The relation could also be harmed and then a replacement of the nurse was considered to be good. After decision to report, there were a lot of emotions and some felt that they were in an exposed situation some feared threats. Further on there was a major concern for the child and some respondents perceived moral distress. To report was considered to do ones duty. To get support was important and could lower the threshold for making another report. Conclusion: Nurses working in primary child healthcare experience many difficulties after reporting to the social welfare board, which may influence the amounts of made reports. Good cooperation with the social welfare board, mentoring and sufficient support after reporting, may result in more reports to the social welfare board about child abuse or neglect.
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Batista, Aline Pozzolo. "Abuso sexual infantil intrafamiliar: a subnotificação e os serviços de saúde." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3707.
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A pesquisa investigou aspectos referentes ao diagnóstico e à notificação de abuso sexual infantil intrafamiliar pelos serviços básicos de saúde do Município de Maringá-PR. O abuso sexual contra crianças é um problema de saúde pública, devido à alta incidência epidemiológica e às graves conseqüências dele decorrentes. Apesar de iniciativas municipais recentes para enfrentamento do problema, poucos são os casos denunciados oficialmente, o que dificulta o dimensionamento do problema e a criação de políticas adequadas. As instituições de saúde são espaços privilegiados para a detecção precoce e a notificação dos casos, porém é essencial que, na medida em que os profissionais de saúde consigam identificar a ocorrência da violência, sintam-se seguros para notificar. Dificuldades em
relação à detecção, à notificação e ao funcionamento da rede de apoio às vítimas foram levantadas, possibilitando inferir pontos estratégicos para desenvolvimento de programas de
capacitação necessários para o estabelecimento de ações de combate ao abuso sexual infantil. Os resultados apontam dificuldades importantes no que se refere ao diagnóstico precoce e insuficiente informação sobre o processo de notificação e de encaminhamento dos casos. Essas dificuldades podem ser minimizadas mediante a adoção de uma política de educação continuada, bem como do fortalecimento da rede de proteção à criança e ao denunciante.This research investigated issues relating to diagnosis and reporting cases of child sexual abuse from the health services in the Maringá city. Sexual abuse against children is a public health problem due to the high epidemiological incidence and the severe consequences arising from it. Although the work has been made from the municipal administration to confront this problem, there are few cases officially reported, which restrains the problem and the creation of appropriate policies. Health care facilities are ideal areas for early detection and reporting of cases, but in order to do so it is essential that health professionals, identifying the occurrence of violence, especially within the family, feel safe to report. Difficulties related to the detection, notification and network operations in support of victims were raised. That procedure allowed the inference of strategic points for the development of training programs required for the establishment of actions to oppose child sexual abuse. The professionals had major difficulties regarding to early diagnosis and information deficit concerning the process of notification and the referral of cases. These difficulties can be minimized by adopting a policy of continuing education and strengthening the network of child protection and the complainant.
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Friberg, Ebba, and Denise Näslund. ""Vi gör orosanmälningar och de begär ut journaler" : BVC-sköterskors erfarenheter av att samverka med socialtjänsten vid misstanke om att ett barn far illa." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Socialt arbete, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33191.
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The aim of the study was to examine what obstacles and possibilities nurses at the Swedish child health services (CHS) experience in collaborating with social services when suspecting child maltreatment. Empirical data was collected through interviews with three CHS nurses and analyzed with a phenomenological approach. The theoretical perspectives used are Luhmann’s systems theory and domain theory. The results show that the nurses interviewed in this study consider themselves having good opportunities of detecting signs of child maltreatment and that they wanted more cooperation with the social services. Theoretical concepts of systemic and environmental complexity address organizational factors that affect collaboration. How collaboration between the CHS and the social services could be improved are discussed.Studien syftade till att undersöka vilka hinder och möjligheter BVC-sköterskor upplever i samverkan med socialtjänsten vid misstanke om att ett barn far illa. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkter är systemteori, specifikt Luhmanns teorier om sociala system, och domänteori. En fenomenologisk ansats har använts vid datainsamlingen och analys av det empiriska materialet, som består av kvalitativa intervjuer med tre BVC-sköterskor. Resultatet visar bland annat att de intervjuade sköterskorna upplever sig ha goda möjligheter att upptäcka missförhållanden i barnets situation och att de önskar mer samverkan med socialtjänsten. Med hjälp av de teoretiska begreppen system- och miljökomplexitet belyses hur betingelser inom och mellan organisationerna påverkar samverkan. Förbättringsmöjligheter angående samverkan mellan BVC och socialtjänsten diskuteras.
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Dahlin, Kalle. "Anmälningsskyldigheten inom skolan : sex rektorers förhållningssätt till anmälningsskyldigheten inom skolan." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63505.
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The purpose of the study is to examine what effects the law has on principals’ approaches to mandatory reporting of child maltreatment (Social Services Act 14:1§). Moreover, the aim is to study if the regulation gets the impact intended. To respond to the purpose, legal science methods in the form of sociology of law were employed aided by qualitative semi-structured research interviews. The interviews comprised six principals in six different schools in the Stockholm area. The interviews were analyzed based on sociology of law theory, earlier research and relevant regulations in social law. The outcome indicates that principals’ understanding of the intentions behind mandatory reporting of child maltreatment is limited in some aspects. There is a difference between the interviewed principals’ official approaches and how they answer that they apply mandatory reporting in practice. When deciding how to apply the mandatory reporting, the child’s best interest is weighed against the parents’ right not to be reported to the authorities unless there is a real concern in the child. The principals suggest that in situations when a report does not lead to action, the reporting creates a bad relationship between the parents and the school. According to the principals, these situations affect the children and their wellbeing
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Johansson, Carolina, and Linda Klingvall. "Erfarenheter hos sjuksköterskor inom barnhälsovården av att göra orosanmälantill socialtjänsten vid misstanke om att ett barn far illa." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Omvårdnad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-66799.
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Yrkesverksamma inom hälso- och sjukvården är skyldiga att göra en anmälan till socialtjänsten genast då de i sin verksamhet fattar misstanke om eller får kännedom om att ett barn far illa. Det är känt att trots att det finns misstanke om att ett barn far illa så är det vanligt att det inte anmäls till socialtjänsten. Syftet med studien var att beskriva erfarenheter hos sjuksköterskor inom barnhälsovården av att göra orosanmälan vid misstanke om att ett barn far illa. Deltagarna bestod av nio sjuksköterskor verksamma vid barnhälsovården i norra och mellersta Sverige. Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ ansats och med semistrukturerade intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod. Intervjuerna analyserades genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys och resulterade i fem kategorier. Resultatet visade att sjuksköterskor verksamma inom barnhälsovården upplevde svårigheter att identifiera att ett barn far illa och att de vanligtvis använde stödjande åtgärder i första hand. De uppgav att en god relation med familjen var mycket betydelsefull och viktig för samarbetet med familjen. Sjuksköterskor försökte arbeta familjecentrerat, men brist på tid gjorde att de inte alltid kände att de gjorde ett tillräckligt arbete. Samtliga sjuksköterskor önskade ett bättre samarbete med socialtjänsten. Studien visar på brister i sjuksköterskornas stöd för att kunna ta beslut om anmälan och brister i kommunikation mellan sjuksköterskor och socialtjänsten.
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Pavao, Maria Theresa [UNIFESP]. "Abuso sexual infantil intrafamiliar e a escuta dos pediatras." Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2011. http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/8861.
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Previous issue date: 2011-03-30O presente trabalho pretende, por meio da abordagem qualitativa e do estudo de caso, analisar as narrativas de pediatras da atenção básica básica de saúde do município do Embu e de um ambulatório de especialidades do município de São Paulo, com o objetivo de apreender como esses profissionais lidam com a questão do abuso sexual infantil. Para a coleta de dados, foram utilizadas as técnicas de observação não participante, entrevistas gravadas com roteiro semiestruturado e registro em diário de campo. A partir das entrevistas gravadas, foram construídas narrativas, analisadas segundo a orientação de Pope (2009), o que resultou na construção dos eixos empíricos, a saber: a) os pediatras frente à situação de abuso sexual; b) ambiguidade ante a notificação; c) necessidade de encontrar marcas físicas e d) a questão do vínculo com o paciente e com a instituição. Os resultados mostraram que o abuso sexual infantil provoca nos profissionais reações emocionais que prejudicam a objetividade diagnóstica. Por outro lado, apontam que o vínculo com o paciente ajuda a conhecê-lo melhor, permitindo suspeitar de maus-tratos, apesar de a maioria insistir na necessidade de encontrar sinais físicos de abuso. Em que pese o treinamento em matéria do abuso sexual, pelo qual a maioria dos profissionais passa, persiste o entendimento de que a notificação de suspeita de abuso poderá gerar problemas, tanto pessoais quanto profissionais. Resta apontar, enquanto perdurar a ineficácia da lei, e considerando os cuidados demandados quando a criança entra no serviço de saúde, a importância para a sensibilização do papel protetivo exercido por esses profissionais, no momento em que não perdem a oportunidade de notificação dos casos suspeitos ou diagnosticados, considerando sua co-responsabilidade pela continuidade ou não da violência sofrida pela criança.
This research intends to analyze, through a qualitative approach and a case study, the narratives of Pediatricians from the basic health care service of Embu County and one specialized clinic in Sao Paulo County, with the purpose of learning how these professionals deal with the question of child sexual abuse. The data collection was made through non-participative observation techniques, semi-structured recorded interviews and registrations in a field notebook. The data were presented through the construction of narratives from the analysis of the recorded interviews following the orientation of Pope et al. (2009), which resulted in the construction of empiric axels, to be noted: a) the pediatricians facing the sexual abuse situation; b) ambiguity upon the notification; c) the necessity for finding physical signs and d) the question of ties with the patient and with the institution. The results show that sexual child abuse brings out emotional reactions in the professionals which harm the diagnostic objectiveness. On the other hand, they point out that bonding with patients helps better knowing them, thus allowing the detection of foul play, outthought most insist in finding evidence of physical signs of abuse. Despite all the training on sexual abuse which the majority of professionals go through, a common notion persists that when one notifies the suspicion of a case of abuse, it may cause not only personal, but also professional problems. We still point out that while the inefficiency of the law exists and considering the care demanded when a child enters the health care service, the importance of the sensitivity of the protective role exercised by these professionals at the moment they elect not to miss the opportunity of notification of suspicious or detected abuse cases, taking into consideration their co-responsibility for the continuation or not of the violence suffered by such child.
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Ström, Mattias, and Joel Ahnstedt. "Skyddsnätets förutsättningar : En enkätundersökning om vilka förutsättningar lärarstudenter ges inför anmälningsplikten." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85902.
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Child neglect and abuse is a widespread problem and mandatory reporting is one of society's most important instruments for detecting and supporting children that are affected. Teachers are an occupational professional group in a unique position to identify children affected by abuse and neglect, but previous research shows that teachers often lack proper education and skills to detect children in need of protection and support. The aim of the study is to examine the qualifications student teachers acquire during their undergraduate studies to act as mandated reporters in their future careers. Furthermore the aim is to problematize how prepared student teachers are for this responsibility. All final year student teachers studying F-3 and 4-6 at Linneaus university in Kalmar and Växjö were asked to participate in a web survey. The results of the study showed that education on child neglect and abuse was scarce and received no primary focus during student teachers basic training. The results also showed that only a minority of the student teachers had received information via official guidelines and documents, while previous work experience was a major source of knowledge on child abuse and neglect. Our conclusion of the study is that student teachers are ill prepared for the responsibility as mandated reporters. This is problematized in the discussion where mandatory reporting and it’s prerequisites are put in a different perspective based on society's responsibility regarding child abuse and neglect.
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Mattsson, Linnea, and Cecilia Stenquist. "Skolans arbete med barn som far illa : En kvalitativ undersökning av skolpersonals förhållningssätt till barn som misstänks fara illa." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Socialt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27172.
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Lärare har i sin dagliga kontakt med barn en unik roll i att upptäcka barn som far illa, de omfattas av en lagstadgad, personlig och ovillkorlig anmälningsskyldighet. Trots detta är anmälningsbenägenheten generellt sett låg och det antas finnas ett stort mörkertal barn som far illa. Syftet med vår studie var att undersöka skolpersonals kunskaper om och attityder till att vid misstanke om att ett barn far illa ingripa på ett lämpligt och konstruktivt sätt. En kvalitativ studie med semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes. Genom tematisk analys utvärderades det empiriska materialet och empirin kopplades till tidigare forskning och teoretiska perspektiv och begrepp inom den symboliska interaktionismen. Våra slutsatser är att det finns ett glapp mellan vad skolpersonal enligt skolverket förväntas göra avseende barn som far illa och vad de gör. Vi har identifierat en bristande förmåga att identifiera barn som far illa och en hierarki där lärare kan förhindras att fullfölja sin anmälningsskyldighet.In their daily contact with children, teachers have a unique role in detecting child-maltreatment, as mandated reporters they are subject to a statutory personal and unconditional notification. Nevertheless, reporting abilities are generally low, and it is assumed that there are a large number of children who are maltreated. The purpose of our study was to investigate school staff’s knowledge and attitudes to act in an appropriate and constructive way if suspicion arises that a child is maltreated. A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews were conducted. The empirical data, evaluated through a thematic analysis and linked to previous research and theoretical perspectives and concepts within symbolic interactionism. Our conclusion is that there is a gap between how teachers act regarding maltreated children and how they are supposed to act according to skolverket. We have identified a lack of ability to identify maltreated children and a hierarchy where teachers can be prevented from completing their mandatory reporting.
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Thomas-Robinson, Shelley. "A study of social worker risk assessment practices conducted by day and alternate hours workers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1933.
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Wilson, Carol A. "Effects of psychologist and situational characteristics on child abuse reporting." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/17503009.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-59).
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Chan, Yuanyi, and 詹苑宜. "The Effect of Child Abuse Course on Attitude, Knowledge, and Intended Reporting Behavior Regarding Child Abuse in Nursing Students." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05863530179851413495.
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Child abuse events happen frequently, and nurses are at the frontline. Nurses function as very important role in identifying and reporting child abuse events. However, the knowledge of nurses regarding identifying and reporting child abuse events is insufficient. Indentifying the ways to promote nurses’ knowledge regarding child abuse events is important. Assisting nurses at understanding their responsibility regarding the report and developing positive attitudes is necessary. Student nurses will become nurses someday and therefore developing child abuse course in school educational program may help them to promote their attitude, knowledge, and intended reporting behaviors toward child abuse events. This study, using quasi-experimental design, to explore the effects of child abuse course on student nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and intended reporting behaviors toward child abuse events. This study recruited a convenience sample, composed of all junior nursing students at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. The experience group would be the students of two classes, who were studying the pediatric nursing course in Fall semester of 2011, and the control group would be the students of other two classes, who were not studying the pediatric nursing course in Fall semester of 2011. The experimental group received the one-hour child abuse course presented by power-point, and the handouts were given to those students at the experimental group. After class, this child abuse course presented by power-point was uploaded and, through internet, students could review it. Pre-test data were collected at 20 minutes before the intervention implemented, and post-data were collected at 7 days after intervention implemented. The data were collected at two points. Data were collected at October, 2011. Demographic data sheet, the Knowledge of Child Abuse Questionnaire, the Attitude of Child Abuse Questionnaire, and Intended Reporting Questionnaire were used. By the paired t-test, independent t-test, and ANCOVA statistics, the results indicated that, in the part of attitudes, in all attitudes , the attitude regarding parents’ discipline to child, and the attitude regarding nurses’ responsibility toward child abuse event, the scores of post-test was significantly higher than the scores of pre-test in the experimental group. As compared with the control group, the scores at post-test of experimental group were significantly higher. However, regarding the attitude toward the punishment to abusive people, the scores of post-test was not significantly higher than the scores of pre-test in the experimental group, but as compared with the control group, the scores at post-test of experimental group were significantly higher. In the part of knowledge, the scores of post-test were significantly higher than the scores of pre-test in the experimental group. As compared with the control group, the scores at post-test of experimental group were significantly higher. In the part of the intended reporting behaviors for child abuse events, no matter in the intended reporting behaviors for all child abuse events, for severe child abuse events, or for less severe child abuse events, the scores of post-test were significantly higher than the scores of pre-test in the experimental group. As compared with the control group, the scores at post-test of experimental group were significantly higher. Based on the finding above, the child abuse course help students nurses’ attitude, knowledge, and intended reporting behaviors toward child abuse events. Therefore, it is expected that the child abuse course can be incorporated into school educational programs. Furthermore, hospitals should hold the relevant conference or seminar, and such courses should be incorporated into the continuing education for renewing nurses’ licensure. Hopefully, student nurses and nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and intended reporting behaviors to child abuse events could be promoted.
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Adeyemi, Benjamin Olamide. "Child abuse: an assessment of recognition capabilities, attitudes and reporting practices of primary school teachers in Pietermaritzburg." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3761.
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Magister Public Health - MPHBackground: Child abuse is a global public health problem with serious consequences for the victims and society. Most studies on child maltreatment in South Africa have focused on the role of teachers as perpetrators and the prevalence of abuse within schools. Due to their strategic importance in breaking the cycle of abuse, it is important to document teachers‘ knowledge and attitudes towards identifying and reporting suspected cases of child abuse in relation to existing mandatory laws.Aim: To assess teachers‘ knowledge, attitudes and reporting practices of suspected child abuse in independent and public primary schools across all quintile categories in the Midlands education circuit in Pietermaritzburg.Methods: An observational, descriptive cross sectional quantitative study design was used. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 237 teachers selected by multi-stage stratified proportional random sampling from a total of 2496 primary school teachers. The data were analysed using CDC Epi Info 7 (2012b). A descriptive analysis was done and groups were compared with chi square, ANOVA or Kruska-Wallis tests where appropriate. The level of significance was set as 95%.Results: The teachers were generally knowledgeable about possible indicators of child abuse. There were critical gaps in participants‘ knowledge of reporting procedures and most of the teachers (70.2%) have had no training on child abuse detection and reporting. Previous training on child abuse was associated with an increased likelihood to have detected abuse in the past (OR 4.86, 95%CI 2.64-8.96, p < 0.01). An overwhelming awareness of mandatory reporting law did not translate into knowledge of its provisions or substantial compliance. Hence, while most teachers agreed that all forms of child maltreatment should be reported, they still displayed differential reporting of suspected cases. The decision to report was often influenced by their perceived seriousness of the on-going abuse while uncertainty about on-going abuse was one of the most important barriers to lodging a report of suspected cases. Conclusions and Recommendations: Teachers recognised child abuse as a serious issue and are willing to learn and do more. Teachers, and ultimately the children in their care, would immensely benefit from training repertoire which addresses identified contextual issues shaping teachers‘ child abuse detection and reporting practices.
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Chen, Yi-Ching, and 陳逸青. "Child Abuse Mandatory Reporting: Attitude and Experiences among the Elementary School Teachers." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80254384536524079072.
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The purpose of this study is to discuss child abuse mandatory reporting: attitude and experiences among the elementary school teachers. This study used questionnaire survey method. A self-developed test was used in the experiment to assess the Attitude and Experiences among the Elementary School Teachers in Child Abuse Mandatory Reporting. “Frequency distribution”, “Chi-square”, and “one-way ANOVA” are used to analyze the survey data of this study. The main findings are as follows: 1. As for the attitude, about seventy percent of the samples know related regulations in cognitive about mandatory reporting. For the degree of recognition towards mandatory reporting, this study discovered that samples tend to “agree”. The action tendency of mandatory reporting discovered that samples to suffers " Sexual abuse " children reporting tendency is most intense. 2. As for the experience of mandatory reporting, this study discovered that thirty-six percent of the samples might have discovered children being abused. The most serious difficulties are unable to determine that the child suffers the abuse; worry the child might suffers a more serious abuse after reporting; and the anxiety of identity exposure might suffer the retaliation by abuser. 3. This study discovered that samples from different background have different attitude and experiences on mandatory reporting. Elementary school teachers in different ages, marriage status, the years of experience, and position backgrounds had significant differences in the attitudes and experiences on mandatory reporting. Finally, according to the survey result, this research would proceed with discussion and provide the suggestions for future research from the research agency and related proposals for research workers.