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Journal articles on the topic "Child abuse Victoria Decision making"

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Bauleni, Esther M., Leesa Hooker, Hassan P. Vally, and Angela Taft. "Intimate-partner violence and reproductive decision-making by women attending Victorian Maternal- and Child-Health services: a cross-sectional study." Australian Journal of Primary Health 24, no. 5 (2018): 422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py17183.

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The reproductive years are a critical period where women experience greater risk of intimate-partner violence (IPV). Most studies investigating the association between IPV and reproductive health have been completed in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to examine the relationship between IPV and women’s reproductive decision-making in Victoria, Australia. We analysed secondary data from a cluster-randomised trial of IPV screening that surveyed new mothers attending Maternal- and Child-Health centres in Melbourne. Survey measures included the experience of partner abuse in the past 12 months using the Composite Abuse Scale and four reproductive decision-making indicators. Results showed that IPV affects reproductive decision-making among postpartum women. Women who reported abuse were less likely to plan for a baby (adjusted Odds Ratio 0.48, 95% CI: 0.31–0.75) than were non-abused women, significantly more likely to have partners make decisions for them about contraception (Risk ratio (RR) 4.09, 95% CI: 1.31–12.75), and whether and when to have a baby (RR 12.35, 95% CI: 4.46–34.16), than they were to make decisions jointly. Pregnant and postpartum women need to be screened for partner violence that compromises women’s decision-making power regarding their reproductive rights.
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Meddin, Barbara J. "The Future of Decision Making in Child Welfare Practice: The Development of an Explicit Criteria Model for Decision Making." Children Australia 9, no. 4 (1985): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000007451.

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AbstractThe paper examines the impact that a decision making model can have on child placement decisions. Using a pre and post test design with three different conditions, the research investigated the ability to increase the consistency of the placement decision by the use of a decision making model that includes explicit criteria.The study found that consistency of decision making was enhanced by the provision of the decision making model and that consistency could be further enhanced by the provision of training in the model. Implications for training of new workers and reduction of worker stress and burnout are discussed.The incident of child abuse and neglect continues to rise. The National Centre on Child Abuse and Neglect estimates that approximately one million children will be abused or neglected this year in the United States. In the State of Illinois alone, during fiscal year 1981 nearly 80,000 reports of abuse or neglect were received. Almost 50% of those reports were found to be actual cases of abuse or neglect.Whether the incident in Australia of child abuse and neglect is increasing or not is difficult to assess, since currently there is no standardised way of collecting data. However, from all indicators a similar increase is indeed occurring. Boss in his book, “On the Side of the Child”, reports that the number of cases seen by the Western Australian Department of Community Welfare has steadily increased. This is corroborated by statistics compiled by that State’s Advisory and Consultative Committee in Child Abuse (ACCCA). Their Statistical Information Report for July-December 1983 indicates an 86% increase in reports of sexual abuse and 12.5% increase in physical abuse. In Queensland the number of child abuse and/or neglect case investigations went from 1 095 in 1981 to 1 631 in 1982 – an increase of more than one third. In Tasmania between 1980 to 1982 the number of reports increased by nearly one-third, from 228-302. The Montrose Child Protection and Family Crisis Unit of the Department of Youth and Community Services in New South Wales report similar increases.On almost a daily basis, social workers are called upon to make far reaching decisions that have the potential to be a life consequential both for the child who is the victim of abuse and/or neglect and that child’s family. Because these decisions, especially the placement decision, have such great ramifications, social workers should be expected to make decisions with great care, consideration and consistency. This may be due, in part because agencies have been slow to explicate, empirically validate, and systematically apply decision making criteria that assist workers in making case decisions.While research indicates that criteria do exist and are used by child welfare workers, the research also indicates that they are not used in any systematic fashion. The result is that idiosyncratic decisions are invited and the potential spectre of gross inequities in the delivery of social services exists. Unless asystematic, consensually based decision making model is used that explicates both the decisions that need to be made along with a specific set of criteria for making these decisions, it is impossible for the child welfare agency to guarantee a minimum level of service delivery.
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Faller, Kathleen Coulborn. "Decision-making in cases of intrafamilial child sexual abuse." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 58, no. 1 (January 1988): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1988.tb01571.x.

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Zellman, Gail L. "Report decision-making patterns among mandated child abuse reporters." Child Abuse & Neglect 14, no. 3 (January 1990): 325–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0145-2134(90)90004-d.

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Herman, Steve. "Improving Decision Making in Forensic Child Sexual Abuse Evaluations." Law and Human Behavior 29, no. 1 (February 2005): 87–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10979-005-1400-8.

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Broadley, Karen. "Making the Decision to Remove a Child from Parental Care: Twelve Decision-Making Criteria." Children Australia 41, no. 2 (November 23, 2015): 90–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2015.58.

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Removing a child from parental care is an important and difficult decision to make. There are far reaching consequences for the child and family. Whilst there is a plethora of literature in relation to child protection practice generally, research on decision making is minimal. In this practice paper, I present 12 decision-making criteria to assist practitioners make decisions about child removal. It is important for child protection practitioners to apply the same set of principles and consider the same factors when making these decisions. These criteria are as follows: the severity of the abusive incident; the presence of cumulative harm; whether the perpetrator has access to the child; the functioning of the parent; whether the perpetrator has been responsible for child abuse or intimate partner violence in the past; the cooperation of the parent; the intent of the perpetrator; the age of the child; the functioning of the child; the voice and expressed wishes of the child; protective relationships available to the child and the statutory requirement to cause no further harm. Referring to these criteria will assist practitioners be clear and explicit about how they reach a decision, and result in greater consistency of outcome for children and families.
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Jill, Bryant, and Milsom Amy. "Child Abuse Reporting by School Counselors." Professional School Counseling 9, no. 1 (October 2005): 2156759X0500900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2156759x0500900106.

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A sample ofschool counselors (N = 263) in one Midwestern state completed questionnaires to share their child abuse reporting behaviors, influences with regard to making a decision to report, and perceived barriers to the reporting process. Participants indicated reporting the majority of suspected cases, and ele-mentary school counselors reported more cases than did high school counselors. Implications and recommendations are presented.
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Ban, Paul, and Phillip Swain. "Family Group Conferences, part two: Putting the ‘family’ back into child protection." Children Australia 19, no. 4 (1994): 11–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720000417x.

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This is the second of two articles examining the establishment of Family Decision Making in Victoria. The first ‘Family Group Conferences – Part One: Australia's first Project in Child Protection’ was presented in the previous edition of Children Australia. This article builds upon the first by presenting an overview of the evaluation of the Victorian Family Decision Making Project, and pointing to practice and other implications of the development of this Project for child welfare services generally.
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Keddell, Emily, and Ian Hyslop. "Networked Decisions: Decision-Making Thresholds in Child Protection." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 7 (November 9, 2019): 1961–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz131.

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Abstract Families are significantly affected by decisions made in the child protection context, yet decision outcomes differ even when cases are similar. Understanding the concepts, practices and processes of differentiation that push some cases over the threshold of key decision points, but not other similar cases, is crucial. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with child protection social workers from three site offices in Aotearoa New Zealand (interviews, n = 26; focus groups, n = 25) and using thematic analysis, this study identified the case, internal organisational, inter-site organisational and external elements that contributed to threshold decisions. Case factors such as children’s age, abuse type and chronicity recorded family history and perceptions of family compliance interacted with internal organisational processes and practices, social negotiations and hierarchical power differences to produce decision outcomes. Inter-site differences in decision thresholds resulted from differences in site managers’ perceptions of acceptable case type, site workloads, resources, size and cultural commitment to family preservation. External demographic inequalities were perceived as causing differing levels of site workload. This ‘networked decision-making’ process is theorised drawing on an extended version of the decision-making ecology (DME), by using qualitative methods to examine interactions between the DME elements and their relationship with risk regimes.
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Holt, Stephanie. "Domestic Abuse and Child Contact: Positioning Children in the Decision-making Process." Child Care in Practice 17, no. 4 (October 2011): 327–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2011.596817.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Child abuse Victoria Decision making"

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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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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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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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Howell, Michael. "INTAKE DECISION MAKING IN CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF DECISION-FACTORS, RACE, AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1801.

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Child protective services begin with an intake (screening) decision to accept or reject maltreatment reports. This crucial decision may lead to significant positive or negative outcomes for children and families. Little is known about characteristics that intake decision-makers share or factors that influence the decision-making process. Racially-biased intake practices have been blamed for contributing to African American children’s disproportionate overrepresentation in the child welfare system. Concerns have emerged that social workers may hold negative stereotypes about African Americans and parents who use drugs. Stereotypical biases may influence decisions in reports alleging parental drug use and/or involving African American families. This study was conducted to examine the influence of race and parental drug-use allegations on intake decision-making. It was also conducted to identify factors that influence decision-making and to determine whether concepts drawn from naturalistic decision theory and attribution theory are relevant to intake decision-making. A conceptual model for describing decision-making was proposed and tested. Equivalent materials design was employed. Respondents completed an on-line questionnaire that included 24 vignettes describing hypothetical maltreatment concerns. Race and drug use were manipulated between two instrument versions. Respondents completed a 45-item scale measuring racial and parental drug use bias. They also described their application of policy to decision-making and the degree to which they engaged in different types of mental simulation (a naturalistic decision theory strategy) in making decisions. Eighty-seven child protective services intake decision-makers in Virginia participated (67% response rate). The findings suggest that respondents’ decisions were not influenced by racial bias but were influenced by parental drug use bias. Respondents’ parental drug use bias scores were higher than their racial bias scores. Social workers’ racial bias scores were higher than other respondents’ scores. A set of nine primary decision-factors used frequently in decision-making was identified. Finally, respondents reported using their discretion in adhering to CPS policy depending upon their concern for children’s safety. The research contributes to understanding the intake decision-making process. Findings related to worker characteristics, relevant decision-factors, and decision-making behaviors may influence practice and future research. Findings also suggest that naturalistic decision theory concepts warrant further attention and study.
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D'Amico, Rebecca Anne. "Factors that affect the decision-making process in youth protection cases." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100739.

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Decisions made in Youth Protection cases are influenced by many different factors that have been outlined in previous research. Assessment tools, definitions of risk and the overarching cultural milieu intermingle to inform the decision-making process and, ultimately the final decision. This research seeks to explore the factors that affect the decision-making process and is intended to build on previous research. By qualitatively analyzing the transcripts from actual decision-making meetings, and talking to the participants about their experiences within the research it was shown that the decision-making process is a complicated one. The roles of the participants within the organization along with the pervasive culture of blame within society seem to primarily affect the dynamics of the people responsible for making the decisions. The effect that these factors have on the actual decision was not studied but would be beneficial to examine. Workers within the organization, especially caseworkers, struggled with wanting more autonomy while simultaneously reported not wanting the responsibility that coincides with it. It is felt that more responsibility would ultimately mean more possibility of blame.
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Shingler, Elisabeth A. "The effects of framing and level of experience on constultants' conceptualizations and recommendations for treatment in cases of child abuse." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38371.

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Call, Alissa Anderson. "The Effects of Child Race, Child Age, and Defendant Race on Mock Jurors’ Decisions for a Child Sexual Abuse Case." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1528930228675864.

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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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Daniel, Robert S. "Disciplined intuition subjective aspects of judgment and decision making in Child Protective Services /." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969/160.

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Udoh, Henry E. "Descriptive study of the social work decision making process in resolving child abuse issues in African American families." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1996. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1327.

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that affect social workers' decision-making in the medical setting. Social workers, working in the are of child abuse and African- American families, from the Metropolitan Atlanta area. Case vignettes were used to examine the relationship between a series of decision-making about the cases described in he vignettes. Dependent variables are the perception and judgement of the social workers. Independent variables are characteristics of the social worker, such as: Education, ethnicity age marital status, children, sex, socio-economic status time in the field, personal experience with corporal punishment, and working experience in child abuse. Thirty-seven social workers from five hospitals in the Metropolitan Atlanta area responded to the questionnaire. This research model used practice case vignettes for analyzing decision-making in child abuse. This model has implications for other medical and child protective agencies by proving: 1) training for staff in decision-making in child abuse, and 2) classroom teaching in schools of social work for both undergraduate and graduate students. These could enhance social workers' skills and increase their knowledge in the practices in the area of child abuse.
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Books on the topic "Child abuse Victoria Decision making"

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Canada, National Clearing House on Family Violence. Decision-making factors in child neglect cases. Ottawa: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, 1989.

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Wright, Margaret M. Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

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Zellman, Gail. Report decision-making patterns among mandated child abuse reporters. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1990.

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Julia, Hamilton. Child abuse: Factors influencing decision-making by social workers. New York, NY: Yeshiva University, 1995.

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Downer, Ann. Personal safety and decision making. Seattle, WA: Committee for Children, 1988.

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Child abuse and neglect reporting and investigation: Policy guidelines for decision making. Washington, D.C: American Bar Association, 1988.

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Mathews, Frederick. Making the decision to care: Guys and sexual assault. Ottawa: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Family Violence Prevention Division, Health & Welfare Canada, 1993.

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Mathews, Frederick. Making the decision to care: Guys and sexual assault. Ottawa, Ont: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Family Violence Prevention Division, Health Canada, 1995.

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Farmer, Elaine. Child protection practice: Private risks and public remedies : a study of decision-making, intervention and outcome in child protection work. London: H.M.S.O., 1995.

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Wells, Susan J. Factors influencing the response of child protective service workers to reports of abuse and neglect: An overview of research findings. Washington, D.C: National Legal Resource Center for Child Advocacy and Protection, American Bar Association, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Child abuse Victoria Decision making"

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Glaser, Danya, and Stephen Frosh. "The Process of Validation and Decision-making." In Child Sexual Abuse, 88–118. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19270-0_5.

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Wells, Kathryn, and Andrew Sirotnak. "Child abuse: physical abuse." In Berman's Pediatric Decision Making, 468–71. Elsevier, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-05405-8.00116-9.

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Sirotnak, Andrew, and Antonia Chiesa. "Child abuse: sexual abuse." In Berman's Pediatric Decision Making, 472–76. Elsevier, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-05405-8.00117-0.

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Broadley, Karen. "Decision-Making Guidelines for the Child Protection Intake Phase." In Child Abuse and Neglect, 325–41. Elsevier, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815344-4.00017-9.

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Tufford, Lea. "The Decision to Report." In Child Abuse and Neglect in Canada, 151–74. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083472.003.0009.

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This chapter presents a mandatory reporting model outlining the decision-making factors within the context of reporting suspected child abuse and neglect. The chapter begins by examining the literature on decision-making and child maltreatment and then focuses on neurological and emotional aspects of decision-making. The chapter moves to delineating the empirical factors (legal, clinician, situational, professional, and relationship) associated with mandatory reporting and specific domains within each factor. A case example provides an illustration of the decision-making process in a mandatory reporting situation.
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Font, Sarah A., Kathryn Maguire-Jack, and Rebecca Dillard. "The Decision to Substantiate Allegations of Child Maltreatment." In Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection, 173–93. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0008.

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In the United States, the Child Protective Services system is responsible for investigating and responding to allegations of child abuse and neglect. At the conclusion of an investigation, caseworkers are expected to decide whether allegations are “substantiated” (demonstrated to be true) or not. How that decision is made—and whether it reflects an objective assessment of the evidence available—is widely debated. This chapter first presents an overview of the decision-making process and the implications of decision-making for vulnerable children and families. Next, it describes how rates of substantiation vary across and within states. The authors then present data from a nationally representative study of child protective services investigations on the factors associated with the decision to substantiate child maltreatment. They find that agency characteristics are predictive of substantiation, net of child and family characteristics. Overall, the authors conclude that substantiation is unlikely to be a valid indicator of the incidence of child maltreatment, and they discuss possible strategies for improving the consistency and utility of the substantiation decision.
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Tufford, Lea. "Strategies to Maintain the Relationship." In Child Abuse and Neglect in Canada, 187–201. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083472.003.0011.

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Following the decision to report or not report child maltreatment, many mandatory reporters are concerned with maintaining the relationship with the family, and this concern is examined more extensively in this chapter. This chapter describes typical client feelings and reactions to a report of suspected child abuse and neglect as well as the potential impacts on the relationship. A comprehensive overview of strategies to maintain the relationship is covered, including engagement strategies, reporting strategies, information strategies, affect regulation strategies (for mandatory reporter and client), advocacy strategies, resource strategies, and strategies that take culture and ethnicity into account. At the conclusion of this chapter is a conceptual model outlining the reporting decision-making factors and the strategies to maintain the relationship.
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Bartelink, Cora, Tom A. van Yperen, Ingrid J. Ten Berge, and Erik J. Knorth. "The Use and Usability of Decision-Making Theory in Child Welfare Policy and Practice." In Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection, 237–62. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0011.

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The aim of this chapter is to clarify how decision-making processes within the context of child welfare and child protection could be improved by decision-making theories (i.e., Decision-Making Ecology [DME] and decisional conflict model), with specific interest in methods intended to support practitioners based on these theories, in particular methods of structured decision-making and actuarial methods. Existing studies indicate that structured decision-making methods have a limited effect on the decision-making process, as well as on the reliability and validity of the judgments and choices made by professionals in cases of suspected child abuse and neglect. Actuarial methods may be more precise in making valid judgments but may ignore factors relevant to decisions concerning treatment and intervention. The DME framework reveals that other factors—in addition to rationally weighing information and arguing—influence the decision-making process and outcomes. Especially the influence of decision-maker factors seems to be ignored in structured decision-making methods. Although systematic methods and instruments do have some value, several additional options are available that take decision-maker factors more into account. This chapter discusses the potentials of critical thinking, team decision-making, systematic feedback, and shared decision-making.
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Fallon, Barbara A., John D. Fluke, Martin Chabot, Cindy Blackstock, Vandna Sinha, Kate Allan, and Bruce MacLaurin. "Exploring Alternate Explanations for Agency-Level Effects in Placement Decisions Regarding Aboriginal Children." In Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection, 215–34. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0010.

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This chapter summarizes a series of published papers that used data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) to explore the influence of case and organizational characteristics on decisions to place Aboriginal children in out-of-home placements. The premise of the analyses was that these influences were consistent with the framework of the Decision-Making Ecology. In Canada, Aboriginal children are overrepresented at all points of child welfare decision-making: investigation, substantiation, and placement in out-of-home care. Case factors accounting for the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children at all service points in the child welfare system include poverty, poor housing, and substance misuse, and these factors, when coupled with inequitable resources for First Nations children residing on reserves, result in the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the Canadian child welfare system. For this study, the authors examine case characteristics and organizational factors in a multilevel context, hypothesizing that children are more likely to be placed out of home in agencies that serve a relatively high proportion of Aboriginal children. According to the statistical models presented, the most important of these factors is whether the provincial government operates the child welfare agency. As with the proportion of Aboriginal children on the caseload, the risk of a child being placed is greater in government-run agencies compared to agencies operated by private funders. Further analysis needs to be conducted to fully understand individual- and organizational-level variables that may influence /decisions regarding placement of Aboriginal children.
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Tufford, Lea. "Implications for Practice, Education, Policy, and Research." In Child Abuse and Neglect in Canada, 222–40. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083472.003.0013.

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This chapter presents a discussion of practice, education, policy, and research implications pertaining to the mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The first section centres on implications for practice in urban, suburban, rural, and remote environments and includes aspects such as working with colleagues, reporting in the workplace, and discussing the limits of confidentiality. What follows are implications for educators of future mandatory reporters. These implications explore educating students in the typology of child abuse and neglect, working in Northern Canada, and the importance of reflection. This chapter also includes suggestions for training that can be incorporated into the curriculum such as reflection, experiential exercises, case vignette, and simulation. The latter half of the chapter explores policy implications with specific attention to data collection and analysis of reported children and families in an effort to detect and respond to racial disparities in the child welfare system. At a national level, implications also include greater consistency in mandatory reporting legislation between provinces and territories. The chapter concludes with implications for research and focuses specifically on furthering our understanding of decision-making processes and disclosure within child sexual abuse.
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