Journal articles: 'Child protection intervention'

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Hobbs, C. J. "Paediatric intervention in child protection." Child Abuse Review 1, no. 1 (April 1992): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2380010104.

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Griffith, Richard. "Child Protection and the Law: urgent intervention." British Journal of Midwifery 17, no. 2 (February 2009): 126–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2009.17.2.39384.

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Egelund, Tine. "The protection of childhood. Risk assessment and intervention of child protection services." Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare 7, no. 3 (July 1998): 261–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.1998.tb00294.x.

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Bywaters, Paul, Jonathan Scourfield, Chantel Jones, Tim Sparks, Martin Elliott, Jade Hooper, Claire McCartan, Marina Shapira, Lisa Bunting, and Brigid Daniel. "Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK." Journal of Social Work 20, no. 2 (September 11, 2018): 193–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017318793479.

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Comparative international data on patterns of inequality in child welfare interventions, for example, the proportion of children about whom there are substantiated child protection concerns or who are in out-of-home care, are far less developed than data about inequalities in health. Few countries collect reliable, comprehensive information and definitions, methods of data collection and analysis are rarely consistent. The four UK countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) provide a potential ‘natural experiment’ for comparing intervention patterns. This study reports on a large quantitative, descriptive study focusing on children in contact with children’s services on a single date in 2015. It found that children’s chances of receiving a child protection intervention were related to family socio-economic circumstances, measured by neighbourhood deprivation, within all four countries. There was a strong social gradient which was significantly steeper in some countries than others. Ethnicity was another important factor underlying inequalities. While inequalities in patterns of intervention between the four countries were considerable, they did not mirror relative levels of deprivation in the child population. Inequalities in intervention rates result from a combination of demand and supply factors. The level and extent of inequity raise profound ethical, economic and practical challenges to those involved in child protection, the wider society and the state.

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Broadley, Karen, and Chris Goddard. "A Public Health Approach to Child Protection: Why Data Matter." Children Australia 40, no. 1 (November 3, 2014): 69–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.37.

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In Australia, many researchers and policy makers believe that statutory child protection systems are overburdened and ineffective. The way forward, they suggest, is a public health model of child protection. A public health approach comprises four steps: (1) collecting surveillance data; (2) establishing causes and correlations; (3) developing and evaluating interventions; and (4) disseminating information about the effectiveness of intervention activities to the public health community. However, in Australia there are no reliable surveillance data. There is no information about ‘person’. Information is not collected about the characteristics of children (e.g., ethnicity) and parents (e.g., mental illness) reported to child protection services. Data are not comparable across place. This is because the states and territories have their own child protection legislation, definitions and data recording methods. Data are not comparable over time. This is because many jurisdictions have introduced new data recording systems over recent years. This paper concludes that it is essential to develop an effective child protection surveillance data system. This will ensure that services are located in areas and targeted towards populations in greatest need. It will enable large-scale evaluation of the effectiveness of prevention and intervention activities.

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Jackson, Sharon, Lynn Kelly, and Brian Leslie. "Parental Participation in Statutory Child Protection Intervention in Scotland." British Journal of Social Work 47, no. 5 (July 14, 2016): 1445–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw090.

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Humphreys, Cathy, Maria Harries, Karen Healy, Bob Lonne, Philip Mendes, Marilyn McHugh, and Rosemary Sheehan. "Commentary … Shifting the child protection juggernaut to earlier intervention." Children Australia 34, no. 3 (2009): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000699.

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Dumbrill, Gary C. "Parental experience of child protection intervention: A qualitative study." Child Abuse & Neglect 30, no. 1 (January 2006): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.08.012.

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Lukefahr, James L., Nancy D. Kellogg, James D. Anderst, Amy R. Gavril, and Karl K. Wehner. "Pediatric response to a large-scale child protection intervention." Child Abuse & Neglect 35, no. 8 (August 2011): 574–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.04.010.

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McPherson, Lynne, Noel Macnamara, and Craig Hemsworth. "A model for multi-disciplinary collaboration in child protection." Children Australia 22, no. 1 (1997): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200008051.

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Working from a background in child protective intervention and staff training and development, the authors sought to address two commonly reported deficits in child protection – the lack of a risk management framework and failures in interagency collaboration. This paper reports their approach to locating a risk and safety factor matrix and their evaluation of its use in a series of interagency workshops designed to improve collaboration.

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Zuchowski, Ines. "Five years after Carmody: practitioners’ views of changes, challenges and research in child protection." Children Australia 44, no. 03 (June 21, 2019): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2019.14.

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AbstractChild protection work is a complex and difficult area of practice, one that is closely scrutinised and criticised, and impacts on the lives of many children. In Australia, child protection systems are overloaded, and increasing numbers of children and families receive child protection interventions each year. This study explored the views of North Queensland practitioners who work in the child protection field, examining changes and challenges in this field of practice, and their suggestions for the future research that is needed in child protection. The study took place 5 years after the 2013 Queensland Carmody inquiry into child protection intervention, which recommended sweeping changes to the child protection system. Twenty-two practitioners participated in this study. Respondents reported an increase in the complexity of cases, a gap in legislation change/practice frameworks and practice, and the application of trauma-informed practice. They highlighted the intersection of child protection, domestic violence and family law and observed that women and children continue to be exposed to violence because of Family Law Court orders. Respondents identified a number of areas where research is needed.

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Emerson, Darcie, and Doug Magnuson. "Child Protection Intervention in Domestic Violence: An Illustrative Case Narrative." Child & Youth Services 34, no. 3 (July 2013): 236–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0145935x.2013.825546.

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Featherstone, B., K. Morris, and S. White. "A Marriage Made in Hell: Early Intervention Meets Child Protection." British Journal of Social Work 44, no. 7 (March 19, 2013): 1735–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct052.

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Wroe, Lauren Elizabeth. "When Helping Hurts: A Zemiological Analysis of a Child Protection Intervention in Adolescence—Implications for a Critical Child Protection Studies." Social Sciences 11, no. 6 (June 16, 2022): 263. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11060263.

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This paper presents data from a three-year, mixed methods study into the rate and impact of ‘relocation’ as a response to extra-familial harm in adolescence by children’s social care teams. Participatory approaches to research design, data collection and analysis are used to gain insights from young people, parents/carers and professionals about the impact of relocations on safety. Professionals and young people report a range of harms implicated in the use of relocations, whilst sharing that the intervention often increases safety. Data are analysed zemiologically to understand this ambivalence, connecting micro accounts of harm with meso, institutional and macro structures that determine child protection intervention. Zemiology is put forward as a promising approach for a Critical Child Protection Studies.

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Schoch, Aline, and Gaëlle Aeby. "Ambivalence in Child Protection Proceedings: Parents’ Views on Their Interactions with Child Protection Authorities." Social Sciences 11, no. 8 (July 27, 2022): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080329.

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Child protection is a field characterized by intrinsic tensions and ambivalence, related to the state’s intervention in the family sphere and to a double mandate of care and control. This article focuses on the participation of parents in statutory child protection proceedings and the ambivalence they experience in their interactions with the Child and Adult Protection Authority in Switzerland (CAPA). The aim is to explore parents’ views on what they consider as hindering or enabling in their interactions with the CAPA in order to be able to fully participate in child protection proceedings. The article is based on a large interdisciplinary research project including multi-perspective cases collected in four cantons of Switzerland and puts the focus on in-depth interviews with ten birth parents. Results show that ambivalence is inherent to the interactions between parents and the CAPA, as the mere opening of child protection proceedings is experienced as a threat to the parents’ integrity. Establishing trust, recognizing parents’ expertise and acknowledging their needs are key to re-establishing parental integrity, which seems to be a fundamental pre-requisite for reducing ambivalence and enhancing participation in child protection proceedings.

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Callister, Gill. "Family Violence and Child Protection." Children Australia 27, no. 4 (2002): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005289.

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Family violence is a serious and widespread issue in our community. Violence between adults within the same family is a risk factor encountered by child protection workers at all points of child protection intervention. Accurately measuring the extent of family violence within the general community and within families notified to child protection is difficult, but we do know that it is an increasing aspect of the workload of Child Protection workers. The Department of Human Services Child Protection program tracks the number and types of characteristics for parents involved with Child Protection according to six categories. These categories are: psychiatric disability, intellectual disability, physical disability, family violence, alcohol abuse and substance abuse. For substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect the percentage of families with family violence noted as a parental characteristic increased from 38 per cent in 1996-97 to 52 per cent in 2000-01 (Department of Human Services 2002). The same data also indicates that for parents for whom family violence was the major parental characteristic recorded over the past five-year period, the co-occurrence of psychiatric disability increased by more than 50 per cent, alcohol abuse increased by 20 per cent, and substance abuse increased by 52 per cent.

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Bernard, Claudia, and Tom Greenwood. "‘We’re giving you the sack’—Social Workers’ Perspectives of Intervening in Affluent Families When There Are Concerns about Child Neglect." British Journal of Social Work 49, no. 8 (February 18, 2019): 2266–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz003.

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Abstract Few studies have examined social workers’ perspectives of child protection interventions in cases of child neglect in affluent families in the UK. Using the findings from a qualitative study, this article explores social workers’ experiences of intervening in affluent families when there are child protection concerns. Focus groups and in-depth interviews were used to gather data from thirty child protection professionals from twelve local authorities across England. Findings from the study are used to explore the complex relational dynamics and power relationships that practitioners have to traverse when intervening with affluent parents that have the material resources to resist social work intervention. The article concludes with a discussion of the skills and knowledge that are necessary for authoritative practice.

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Agnew, Robyn. "Reflections on the new Scottish innovative child protection system." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol27iss3id7.

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This paper reflects on my work in Scotland in child protection during 2009 and 2010. It reflects on the Scotland I discovered and The Highlands I worked in. It describes recent innovative political decisions that have informed social work practice across all professions and government departments. It describes the implementation of an essentially simple system, which provides support for every child in need, specific to that need. It is a system that could positively inform the further development of child protection in New Zealand. Given the current plan to seek ways to ‘modernise’ Child Youth and Family (CYF), this paper seeks to encourage a debate on the merits of this path-finding Scottish solution to their political, social, ethnic and professional barriers, which could also produce positive outcomes for children in New Zealand (Tolley, 2015). It describes the overlaying of this approach on top of a professional workforce, despite the silo bureaucracy of service delivery and regardless of professional jealousies protecting individual professions. It describes the responsibilities of all who interact with children and sets certain overlying responsibilities for ‘named’ persons. In this way the responsibilities for the protection of children is moved from the realm of the social work profession, which is overloaded, as it is currently in New Zealand, and applied directly to all professions that interact with children. The Scots have produced a reliable system which strengthens protective mechanisms at the point of service delivery to the child. This in turn develops a reliable and accountable protective society, in which children in need are identified early and supported throughout their contact with different services. The goal is an on-going intervention that can achieve change for the child and allow the child to reach their potential. It is an aspirational system of care, aiming for development of innate potential. I reflect on the system and the safety it provided to myself as a social worker, the relief of ‘sharing’ child protection responsibilities with all other professions and the clarity of roles which defines this system.

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Bywaters, Paul, Geraldine Brady, Tim Sparks, Elizabeth Bos, Lisa Bunting, Brigid Daniel, Brid Featherstone, Kate Morris, and Jonathan Scourfield. "Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: Explaining the ‘inverse intervention law’." Children and Youth Services Review 57 (October 2015): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.07.017.

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Pérez-Hernando, Sara, and Nuria Fuentes-Peláez. "The Potential of Networks for Families in the Child Protection System: A Systematic Review." Social Sciences 9, no. 5 (May 6, 2020): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9050070.

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There has recently been increased interest in the potential for formal and informal networks to aid interventions with biologic families in helping them achieve reunification in the context of the child protection system. When group support is provided to families, the creation of a network of social support seems to be a consequence. The article analyzes the conceptualization of social support in order to create social support networks and the benefits on the intervention with families in the framework of the child protection system through a systematic review. From a wide search 4348 documents, finally 14 articles were included in the reviews. Results show that social support is considered a process by which social resources are provided from formal (professional services and programs associated with those services in any off the protection, health of educational systems) and informal (extended family, friends, neighbors and acquaintances) networks, allowing the families to confront daily moments as well as in crisis situations. This social support is related to emotional, psychological, physical, instrumental, material and information support that allow families to face their difficulties. Formal and informal networks of child protection systems contribute to social support, resilience, consolidation of learning and the assistance of families to social intervention programs.

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Warner, Sam. "Critical reflections on communicating with children: Making the tactics of training and intervention in child protection explicit." Educational and Child Psychology 20, no. 1 (2003): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2003.20.1.109.

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AbstractIn this paper I explore current understandings about child abuse and child protection in order to contribute to the on-going development of critical frameworks for assessment, intervention and training. My aim is to critically advance current statutory approaches to child protection that locate children’s needs within their specific family and environmental context in order to promote child-centred, empowerment and partnership-based practices. Through describing some key elements of a training programme aimed at enhancing practitioners’ communication with children in need, I demonstrate how communication and understanding are enhanced through being specific. I illustrate the practical benefits of making the various behavioural, intellectual and emotional processes of assessment and intervention open and transparent. I argue that more sensitive approaches to assessment and intervention are enabled through addressing both explicit factors associated with the child and implicit factors associated with the worker. A social constructionist framework is drawn on to explicate the multiple factors that shape our understandings about child abuse, child welfare and communication in respect of these issues. The paper demonstrates the benefits of adopting a more socially complete and reflexive approach to understanding child abuse and the processes involved in child protection.

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Tilbury, Clare. "Repeated reports to child protection: Interpreting the data." Children Australia 28, no. 3 (2003): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005654.

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This article examines data regarding three performance indicators that cast light on child protection intake and assessment processes, when children are reported to child protection agencies because of concerns about abuse or neglect. Rates of renotification, substantiation, and resubstantiation are examined. What do the data reveal about whether intervention is effective in keeping children safe from further harm and whether investigative resources are targeted to priority cases? The policy implications are discussed.

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Flaherty, Rosemaria, and Rodney Cooper. "Piloting a parenting skills program in an Australian rural child protection setting." Children Australia 35, no. 3 (2010): 18–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200001139.

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This rural pilot study examined the effectiveness of a brief parenting skills intervention delivered to parents/carers of children who had experienced moderate to severe child abuse. The participants were 35 parents/carers living in rural New South Wales, Australia, who were recruited through referrals to a rural community health service. Participants were assessed pre and post the brief parenting skills education program using a battery of standardised self-report measures. Participants were randomly assigned to an immediate intervention group or a 3-month waitlist control group. The intervention was a three session ‘1-2-3 Magic’ parenting program.T-test analyses indicated that carers who received the intervention reported significant improvements in their mental health and discipline practices, and a significant reduction in child problem behaviour compared to the waitlist control group.The results of the study suggest that a brief psycho-educational parenting group intervention may be effective for carers of abused children in the short-term.

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Rácz, Andrea, and Ernő Bogács. "Narrative Child Protection in Hungary. The Importance of Knowing the History of the Families in Need in the Social Work with Children." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Social Analysis 10, no. 1 (October 1, 2020): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aussoc-2020-0005.

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AbstractThe study is reflecting on the nature and features of social work with families with children, attempting to discuss social work as assistance and apprehension and to detect whether there is any causal link between the efficiency of social work and the narrative approach and the “unstoried”, “faceless” condition of the families. We argue that professional attitude aimed at providing child protection support is not possible without knowing the story of families with children. Without a helping attitude, no real social work is possible, and thus the client remains invisible and faceless in the process of child welfare or child protection interventions. Besides the actual situations of story-based intervention in social work (micro level), narrativity is also important for the transparent and adequate functioning of the system (mezzo level); moreover, it can become a factor of paradigm shift in social and political discourse on social work and its target groups (macro level). The study is based on the research entitled Child Protection Trends Supporting Children’s Well-Being carried out within the Research Scholarship granted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017–2020). The research focused on the family concept of child protection professionals and their views of the clients that can be deducted from this concept. The research also examines the notion and functions of the family from the viewpoint of children, young people and their parents as well as the professional attitudes and interventions determined by these perceptions. Research results show that due to the diversity and complexity of the problems of families in the purview of the child protection system one cannot reflect on professional solutions along types of problems. Successful functioning and efficient child protection rely rather on revealing individual and specific needs. All this indicates that child welfare and child protection work is possible only if built on personal stories.

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Harris, Joanna. "Educational Neglect and Child Protection in Ontario." Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants 7, no. 1 (November 6, 2020): 228–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2575.

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Education is a basic human right, critical to the social and economic well-being of children and youth. It is so fundamental to a child’s well-being that Ontario courts have repeatedly recognized that educational neglect is a stand-alone child protection concern justifying state intervention. Courts in Ontario acknowledge that educational neglect is also a significant indicator of greater neglect within the child’s family. Education law, and child protection law, are remedies that should both be utilized to remedy educational neglect in a child’s life. Children involved with child welfare system are vulnerable and often fail to achieve basic educational goals as a result of preexisting neglect but also as a result of the system itself. Greater collaboration is needed between educators, social workers, and responsible Ministries to ensure that vulnerable children’s educational needs are met.

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Collins, Bradley N., Stephen J. Lepore, Jonathan P. Winickoff, and David W. Sosnowski. "Parents' Self-efficacy for Tobacco Exposure Protection and Smoking Abstinence Mediate Treatment Effects on Child Cotinine at 12-Month Follow-up: Mediation Results from the Kids Safe and Smokefree Trial." Nicotine & Tobacco Research 22, no. 11 (September 9, 2019): 1981–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntz175.

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Abstract Introduction Compared with the general smoking population, low-income smokers face elevated challenges to success in evidence-based smoking cessation treatment. Moreover, their children bear increased disease burden. Understanding behavioral mechanisms related to successful reduction of child tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) could inform future smoking interventions in vulnerable, underserved populations. Methods Smoking parents were recruited from pediatric clinics in low-income communities and randomized into a multilevel intervention including a pediatric clinic intervention framed in best clinical practice guidelines (“Ask, Advise, Refer” [AAR]) plus individualized telephone counseling (AAR + counseling), or AAR + control. Mediation analysis included treatment condition (independent variable), 12-month child cotinine (TSE biomarker, criterion), and four mediators: 3-month end-of-treatment self-efficacy to protect children from TSE and smoking urge coping skills, and 12-month perceived program (intra-treatment) support and bioverified smoking abstinence. Analyses controlled for baseline nicotine dependence, depressive symptoms, child age, and presence of other residential smokers. Results Participants (n = 327) included 83% women and 83% African Americans. Multilevel AAR + counseling was associated with significantly higher levels of all four mediators (ps < .05). Baseline nicotine dependence (p < .05), 3-month self-efficacy (p < .05) and 12-month bioverified smoking abstinence (p < .001) related significantly to 12-month child cotinine outcome. The indirect effects of AAR + counseling intervention on cotinine via self-efficacy for child TSE protection and smoking abstinence (ps < .05) suggested mediation through these pathways. Conclusions Compared with AAR + control, multilevel AAR + counseling improved all putative mediators. Findings suggest that fostering TSE protection self-efficacy during intervention and encouraging parental smoking abstinence may be key to promoting long-term child TSE-reduction in populations of smokers with elevated challenges to quitting smoking. Implications Pediatric harm reduction interventions to protect children of smokers from tobacco smoke have emerged to address tobacco-related health disparities in underserved populations. Low-income smokers experience greater tobacco-related disease burden and more difficulty with smoking behavior change in standard evidence-based interventions than the general population of smokers. Therefore, improving knowledge about putative behavioral mechanisms of smoking behavior change that results in lower child exposure risk could inform future intervention improvements.

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Teixeira, Diana N., Isabel Narciso, and Margarida R. Henriques. "Driving for Success in Family Reunification—Professionals’ Views on Intervention." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 24 (December 10, 2022): 16594. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416594.

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Family reunification is a complex process and is consensually considered the best solution for children in care, as soon as the family has changed the dysfunctional patterns that prevent child safety and well-being. Intervention throughout the entire process is crucial to the success of family reunification. This study aimed to explore and understand child protection professionals’ views on factors influencing (un)successful family reunification trajectories. Using a qualitative design, 33 Portuguese child protection professionals participated in five focus groups. The thematic analysis revealed a set of influential factors within three different systemic levels: child, family, and child welfare system. The latter level was clearly predominant, pointing to the powerful role of the intervention as a vehicle for successful family reunification. The results showed the relevance attributed by the professionals to some main intervention guidelines, children–professionals’ relationships, multisystemic assessment and intervention, coordinated work of intervention teams, and sufficient time between the court decision and the child’s re-entry into the family home. The need for early intervention and its continuity after the child’s reintegration into the home also emerged as relevant factors. This study provides in-depth knowledge of professionals’ views on the intervention process, thus contributing to a comprehensive understanding of (un)successful family reunification trajectories.

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Salminen-Tuomaala, Mari. "How can Simulation Coaching Improve Emotional Intelligence Skills and Situational Awareness in Child Protection Professionals?" ATHENS JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES 8, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajhms.8-1-4.

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Emotional intelligence (EI) and situational awareness (SA) are important attributes for child protection professionals. In this qualitative study conducted in Finland, the aim was to explore how simulation-based learning could improve EI and SA of child protection professionals. Based on a learning needs assessment, a simulation-based educational intervention was provided for 36 professionals in 5 private providers of substitute care services for under 18-year-old children. Directly after the intervention, the participants were asked to recount in a short essay how the educational intervention had affected their EI and SA and other professional competence. Inductive content analysis was used to analyze the essays. The analysis revealed that the simulation coaching had been meaningful to the participants from four perspectives, increasing their awareness of their own and others’ emotions; making them better prepared to project themselves into another person’s position; increasing team intelligence, and as a form of work supervision. The results indicate that simulation coaching can be considered a useful tool for the development of EI, SA and related competencies in child protection professionals. Other professionals, whose work essentially involves close interaction with clients, may also consider the transferability of the findings to their work. Keywords: child protection, emotional intelligence, situational awareness

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Kelly, Robert F., and Sarah H. Ramsey. "Legal and Other Determinants of Effective Court Intervention in Child Protection Proceedings." Journal of Social Service Research 8, no. 2 (September 30, 1985): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j079v08n02_02.

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Crane, Lori A., Ann Deas, Stefan T. Mokrohisky, Gretchen Ehrsam, Richard H. Jones, Robert Dellavalle, Tim E. Byers, and Joseph Morelli. "A randomized intervention study of sun protection promotion in well-child care." Preventive Medicine 42, no. 3 (March 2006): 162–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2005.11.007.

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Delgado, Paulo, Vânia S. Pinto, and João M. S. Carvalho. "Attitudes and decision-making in the child protection system." Kriminologija & socijalna integracija 25, no. 2 (December 29, 2017): 2–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31299/ksi.25.2.1.

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In the contexts of family neglect or maltreatment, the State intervenes by safeguarding the development and well-being of the child or young person in danger. In more severe situations, the intervention may lead to the child’s removal from the family. The Portuguese Law on the Protection of Children and Young People in Danger (Law 142/2015 of September 8th) favours the placement of the child in a family environment, especially for children up to the age of six. Despite this, in Portugal, in 2015, 8 600 children were in out-of-home care, only 3.5% of which were placed in foster care, while the remaining children were in residential care. Therefore, one of the fundamental rights of the child – living in a family environment – is compromised in practice. This study aims to understand the decision-making process of 200 higher education students in domains related to child protection, and those of 200 professionals who are responsible for providing case assessments and recommendations for intervention in the Portuguese child protection system. Using the Child Welfare Attitudes Questionnaire (Davidson-Arad & Benbenishty, 2008, 2010), the study aimed to identify the participants’ attitudes regarding removal of at-risk children from home, reunification and optimal duration of alternative care, children’s and parents’ participation in the decision-making process, and assessment of foster care and residential care, with the purpose of promoting children’s development and well-being. We concluded that both sets of participants (professionals and students) can be divided in two groups, one which is pro-removal and the other, which is less so. In comparison with students, professionals less often favour the removal of the child and more often defend reunification. There are no significant differences among participants regarding their opinion about the role of foster and residential care, and the participation of the child in the decision-making process. However, professionals tend to support parents’ participation in the decision-making process more than students do. Finally, we present some implications of our findings for the practice of child protection.

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Haggerty, Kevin P., Richard F. Catalano, Tracy Harachi, and Bob Abbott. "Description de l’implantation d’un programme de prévention des problèmes de comportement à l’adolescence." Criminologie 31, no. 1 (September 1, 2005): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/017410ar.

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This paper describes a comprehensive approach to preventing a variety of adolescent problem behaviors, including drug use, delinquency, violence, school dropout and teenage pregnancy. The experimental intervention is designed to enhance protection and reduce risk for these adolescent problem behaviors. The project, Raising Healthy Children (RHC), extends earlier work conducted in the Seattle Social Development Project (Hawkins, Catalano, Morrison, O'Donnell, Abbott & Day, 1992; O'Donnell, Hawkins, Catalano, Abbott & Day, 1995). The interventions are guided by the Social Development Model (Catalano & Hawkins, 1996), a theory that explains the development of both prosocial and antisocial behavior. Because risk and protective factors for these problems are found in multiple social domains, the interventions address these factors through developmentally appropriate strategies in the three major socializing institutions, the family, school, and peer groups. The "school intervention strategy " provides a series of instructional improvement workshops and classroom coaching designed to increase student's commitment and attachment to school while reducing academic failure. The "family intervention strategy " provides parenting workshops and home-based services to increase parents' skills in child rearing, to increase attachment and commitment to the family while decreasing family management problems. The "peer intervention strategy" provides children the opportunity to learn and practice social and emotional skills in the classroom and in social situations. These combined strategies are described in detail. Preliminary analyses reveal significant effects of these strategies on reducing early risk and increasing protection.

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Buddery, Paul. "Help volunteers support families." Children and Young People Now 2019, no. 2 (February 2, 2019): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/cypn.2019.2.44.

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Mendes, Philip. "From minimal intervention to minimal support: Child protection services under the neo-liberal Kennett Government in Victoria 1992-1999." Children Australia 26, no. 1 (2001): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720001004x.

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This article examines the politics and ideology of Victorian child protection services during the Kennett years. The argument advanced is that the Kennett Liberal/National Party Coalition Government viewed child abuse in narrow, individualistic terms. In contrast to the previous Labor Government, which emphasized a philosophy of minimal intervention based on a partnership of family, community and the state, the Kennett philosophy was one of minimal support. The key emphasis was on the reporting of child abuse to statutory child protection authorities, and the treatment and punishment of individual offenders. Spending on broader structural prevention and support services which actually help the victims of abuse was not a priority.A number of examples of this neo-liberal agenda are given, including the poorly timed introduction of mandatory reporting and the associated diversion of resources from support services to investigation; the early cuts to accommodation and non-government support services; the inadequate response to demonstrated links between child abuse and poverty; the censorship of internal and external critics; and the appalling handling of the strike by child protection workers. Attention is focused primarily on the broader macro-political debates, rather than specific micro-service delivery issues.

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Smith, Mary. "Involving child protection service users in social work education." Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning 11, no. 2 (March 4, 2013): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/jpts.v11i2.268.

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This paper describes an attempt to incorporate the experiences of service user parents who had been involved in child protection services into the programme at a higher education provider in the London area. The aim was to explore their experiences and their perceptions of what social work contact had been positive or helpful. This is a difficult area of practice due to the sensitive and complex nature of social work intervention and engagement. The service users to participate were identified by a practitioner from the local authority. This paper presents an evaluation of this teaching session, and links this teaching tool with a range of current research in the area. Results showed that students reported benefits from being presented with the lived experience of these users. The links between theory and practice were also enhanced.

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O’Leary, Patrick, Mohamad Abdalla, Aisha Hutchinson, Jason Squire, and Amy Young. "Child Protection With Muslim Communities: Considerations For Non-Muslim-Based Orthodoxies/Paradigms in Child Welfare and Social Work." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 4 (July 20, 2019): 1201–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz088.

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Abstract The care and protection of children are a concern that crosses ethnic, religious and national boundaries. How communities act on these concerns are informed by cultural and religious understandings of childhood and protection. Islam has specific teachings that relate to the care and guardianship of children and are interpreted in diverse ways across the Muslim world. Islamic teachings on child-care mostly overlap with Western understandings of child protection, but there can be some contested positions. This creates complexities for social workers intervening in Muslim communities where the basis of their intervention is primarily informed by a non-Muslim paradigm or occurs in secular legal contexts. The purpose of this article is to address at a broad level the issue of how overarching concepts of child protection and Islam influence social work practice with Muslim communities. It addresses a gap in practical applications of the synergy of Islamic thinking with core social work practice in the field of child protection. For effective practice, it is argued that social work practitioners need to consider common ground in Islamic thinking on child protection rather than rely on Western frameworks. This requires further research to build evidence-based practice with Muslim families.

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Seden, Janet, Pauline Hardiker, and Mary Barker. "Child protection revisited: balancing state intervention and family autonomy through social work processes." Child & Family Social Work 1, no. 1 (February 1996): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.1996.tb00007.x.

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Jonson-Reid, Melissa, Brett Drake, John N. Constantino, Mini Tandon, Laura Pons, Patricia Kohl, Scott Roesch, Ellie Wideman, Allison Dunnigan, and Wendy Auslander. "A Randomized Trial of Home Visitation for CPS-Involved Families: The Moderating Impact of Maternal Depression and CPS History." Child Maltreatment 23, no. 3 (January 11, 2018): 281–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559517751671.

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Home visitation (HV) interventions may hold promise to improve parenting and prevent child maltreatment recidivism in families reported to child protective services (CPS) with young children, but this has rarely been studied. Findings are presented from an 18-month randomized controlled trial in which intact families ( N = 122) with at least one CPS report were provided with a facilitated connection to a paraprofessional evidence-based HV program or usual care services from child protection. Results are reported for changes in maternal stress, depression, and social support outcomes and repeat reports to CPS. No significant changes were found in maternal outcomes by group. Among nondepressed mothers or families without multiple CPS reports prior to study enrollment, HV was associated with a significantly lower likelihood of CPS report recidivism. These results indicate potential for HV to prevent maltreatment recidivism but suggest that higher intensity intervention is warranted for mothers exhibiting significant depressive symptoms or families with extensive CPS histories.

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Bowman, Jennifer A., Robert W. Sanson-Fisher, and Gloria R. Webb. "Interventions in Preschools to Increase the Use of Safety Restraints by Preschool Children." Pediatrics 79, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.79.1.103.

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Despite the proven safety value of wearing vehicle safety restraints, people continue to travel without this protection. Legislation requiring the use of safety restraints has been implemented in several countries, including Australia, in an attempt to improve rates of restraint use. In Australia, legislation dramatically increased rates of adult restraint use, yet the rate of restraint use by children remains comparatively low. One of the main reasons for parents not restraining their child is the child's dislike of wearing a restraint, with resultant disruptive behavior. This study compared two interventions implemented within preschools: a coercive intervention aimed at parents and an educational intervention aimed at preschool children. Measures of restraint use were made by direct observation at preschools prior to intervention and again immediately following the 2-week interventions. The safety restraint use of children in the control and coercive intervention groups did not change significantly as a result of intervention. Restraint use of children in the educational intervention group increased 15 percentage points from 60.6% to 75.0%: a significant increase of 25%. This novel intervention approach holds promise as a means of increasing preschool children's use of safety restraints.

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Rasmussen, Ole, Annika Yding, Finn Lauszus, Charlotte Andersen, Jacob Anhøj, and Jane Boris. "Importance of Individual Elements for Perineal Protection in Childbirth: An Interventional, Prospective Trial." American Journal of Perinatology Reports 08, no. 04 (October 2018): e289-e294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1675352.

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Objective To analyze the association between each element of a hands-on intervention in childbirth and the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS). Study Design We conducted a prospective, interventional quality improvement project and implemented a care bundle with five elements at an obstetric department in Denmark with 3,000 deliveries annually. We aimed at reducing the incidence of OASIS. In the preintervention period, 355 vaginally delivering nulliparous women were included. Similarly, 1,622 nulliparous women were included in the intervention period. The association of each element with the outcome was estimated using a regression analysis. Results The incidence of OASIS went down from 7.0 to 3.4% among nulliparous women delivering vaginally (p = 0.003; relative risk = 0.48; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.30–0.76). Number needed to treat was 28. Logistic regression analysis showed that using hand on the head of the child significantly reduced the risk of OASIS (odds ratio = 0.28; 95% CI: 0.14–0.58). Conclusion Using a quality improvement framework, we documented the individual elements of the intervention. Hand on the infant's head reduced the risk of OASIS.

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Gojová, Alice, Barbora Gřundělová, Kateřina Cilečková, and Monika Chrenková. "Path toward a Child-Centered Approach in the Czech Social and Legal Protection of Children." Sustainability 12, no. 21 (October 27, 2020): 8897. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12218897.

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Child protection was traditionally based on a presumption that the mother best knows what is in the best interest of her child. The discourse began to be questioned in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, followed by efforts to bring interests and needs of children into focus, as well as the ways in which they can be taken into account in the assessment process as a basis for intervention. This paper aimed to identify key features of the child-centered approach in the professional discourse of the Czech child protection and to analyze the conditions of its application. The goal was achieved through qualitative thematic analysis of professional texts in the area of social and legal protection of children since 1990 and also of legislative and methodological materials regulating child protection. This paper shows the changing of the paradigm in the social and legal protection of children and points out the shortcomings in social work practice. The reason for optimism may be the fact that an umbrella body of state administration for child protection is aware of shortcomings and, in the form of projects focusing on various topics of social work with families, works to improve competences and knowledge.

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Bryce, India. "A Review of Cumulative Harm: A Comparison of International Child Protection Practices." Children Australia 43, no. 1 (January 28, 2018): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.3.

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This article explores the prevalence of cumulative harm as a subtle and pervasive harm type, often dismissed or ignored in child protection assessment and reporting practices. The author examines a range of trends and research that identifies current gaps in the legislative response to cumulative harm identification and intervention. Through analysis of the current practices informing child protection in Australia, it is clear that there is movement towards a more holistic understanding of harm and the impacts of long-term maltreatment. However, a nationwide level of consistent practice has not yet been achieved, which places cumulative harm and reoccurring maltreatment on an equal footing with episodic maltreatment, particularly in relation to notification and reporting. Internationally, although variations are evident, just as they are in national framework, there is an inclusive impetus towards early intervention as a means of addressing harm prior to the onset of cumulative impact. There is a growing emphasis on children's wellbeing, development and universal right to quality of life and fair treatment.

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Solehati, Tetti, Auliya Ramanda Fikri, Cecep Eli Kosasih, Yanti Hermayanti, and Henny Suzana Mediani. "The Current Preventing of Child Sexual Abuse: A Scoping Review." Social Sciences 11, no. 11 (November 4, 2022): 508. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11110508.

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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global social problem that has a negative impact throughout the victim’s life; therefore, it is necessary to prevent CSA as a protection for children. The study aimed to identify the literature on CSA prevention interventions as a method for preventing child sexual abuse, specifically to determine the types of studies that have been conducted, the purposes of the programs, the types of methods used, the duration of intervention, the place of intervention implementation, the effectiveness of the programs, and the study improvement recommendations. This review followed the Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis for Scoping Review (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines. Articles were searched using the PsycINFO database, CINAHL (EBSCO), ScienceDirect, MEDLINE (EBSCO), Scopus, Google Scholar, and manual searching with search engines. The inclusion criteria were focused on CSA prevention intervention programs, published between 2011 and 2021, published in English, using RCT/quasi-experiment/mixed method designs, and involving human subjects (children, parents, teachers, and caregivers). As many as 36 articles were selected for inclusion. Based on the results of the scoping review, it was found that three main thematic categories were identified, namely: (1) implementation of CSA prevention; (2) the effectiveness of CSA prevention; (3) research improvement recommendations. There are three main topics of CSA’s promising prevention strategy focused on the target of strengthening protective factors that can be used by community service organizations providing services to children, policy-makers, and researchers. Preventive action requires strong collaboration between children, parents, teachers, and the surrounding community and must be supported by the use of innovative media that is adapted to the times. More evaluative research is needed to establish which strategies might be effective in CSA prevention practices.

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O’Leary, Patrick John, Amy Young, Donna McAuliffe, and Yanuar Wismayanti. "Developing the social work role in the Indonesian child protection system." International Social Work 62, no. 2 (January 3, 2018): 814–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872817747028.

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Indonesia is building a child protection system where primary preventions aim to support families and intervention is based on community-based care options rather than the current reliance on institutional care. Social work has been identified as the lead profession in this structural change. This requires social work to be better recognized as a profession in Indonesian society. This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role for social work in child protection in Indonesia. Key learning outlines the need for global collaboration and the need for an indigenous Indonesian approach to the identity of social work.

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Sandoval-Obando, Eduardo, Marta Alcaide, Miguel Salazar-Muñoz, Sebastián Peña-Troncoso, Claudio Hernández-Mosqueira, and Sofia Gimenez-Serrano. "Raising Children in Risk Neighborhoods from Chile: Examining the Relationship between Parenting Stress and Parental Adjustment." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 1 (December 21, 2021): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010045.

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Introduction: Parenting stress and parental adjustment could implicate key differences in the relational dynamics that parents establish with their children, particularly when families come from vulnerable social contexts. Method: Participants were 142 fathers and mothers from a risk neighborhood of Chile. The variables examined were parenting stress (parental distress, parent–child dysfunctional interaction and difficult child) and parental adjustment (depression, anxiety, and stress). Parents also completed a sociodemographic characterization survey. The statistical analyses were a correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analyses. Results: Overall, not all components of parenting stress were related to parental adjustment. Only parental distress was found as a significant predictor of poor parental adjustment (greater depression, anxiety, and stress), but not parent–child dysfunctional interaction and having a difficult child. Conclusions: The present study findings highlight the influence of stress on parenting as a relevant dimension of research for the improvement of the intervention deployed by the state regarding the protection of vulnerable Chilean children, providing multiple clinical and psychosocial applications for research and intervention purposes.

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Prabhakar, Kamini, K. Kalaivani, S. Kowsalya, and Prema Ramachandran. "Use of Mother Child Protection Card for Improving Infant Feeding Practices." Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics 56, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.21048/ijnd.2019.56.4.23980.

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For the last four decades India had invested in interventions for improving household food security, supplementary feeding programmes and health care to pre-school children. However under-nutrition rates in under-five children continue to be high. Poor infant and young child feeding and caring practices had been identified as the major modifiable factors associated with under-nutrition especially in the critical first two years. Mother Child Protection Card (MCPC) was introduced as the critical intervention tool for combating these two factors and improving nutritional status of the children. A community based mixed longitudinal study was taken up in urban low middle income group mothers with under-three children to assess feasibility and impact of using MCPC as a supportive tool for nutrition and health education regarding infant and young child feeding and care during illness. Mothers readily accepted MCPC, kept it safely and produced it when requested. MCPC with authentic pictorial messages was used by all health and nutrition front line workers and research team; this practice ensured uniformity in nutrition and health education messages. Over 90% of infants at 2 months and over 2/3rd at 5 months were solely breast-fed. By 8th month almost all infants received semi-solid food. Almost all families accessed health care during illness and followed the advice regarding feeding during illness and convalescence. As a result the mean z scores for weight-for-age did not show any deterioration in the first year. MCPC is a useful tool in providing nutrition and health education and improving infant feeding practices.

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Chung, Chan Yuk, Gladys L. T. Lam Chan, Syrine K. S. Lam Yeung, and Li Shing Fu. "A Review on Multi-disciplinary Intervention by Child Protection Professionals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Hong Kong." Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development 12, no. 1 (June 2002): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21650993.2002.9755890.

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Eidukevičiūtė, Julija, Roberta Motiečienė, and Rasa Naujanienė. "THE VOICE OF THE CHILD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM IN LITHUANIAN FAMILY SOCIAL WORK." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 6 (May 28, 2021): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol6.6243.

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This paper explains the current practices of the child welfare system in the context of Lithuania. In Europe, research on child welfare has a long history; however, the child welfare situation in Lithuania has not been systematically studied, nor has it been provided with the research-based knowledge necessary for the development of the system. Based on qualitative research results, the paper sheds light on how the voice of the child is heard in Lithuanian child and family social work practice. The research participants in the present study were children and family social workers. The research results indicate that adult-centered family social work practices are dominant and the voice of the child is misleading in the intervention process.

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Keddell, Emily. "Harm, care and babies: An inequalities and policy discourse perspective on recent child protection trends in Aotearoa New Zealand." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 31, no. 4 (December 22, 2019): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol31iss4id668.

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INTRODUCTION: Examining basic trends in child protection statistics give some insight into the functioning of the system overall.METHODS: This article uses Official Information Act and publicly available data to examine recent trends of children in contact with the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection system.It discusses these trends with reference to child protection policy reforms, and an inequalities perspective.FINDINGS: There has been an increase of children in care despite steady reductions in hospitalisations for physical abuse and possibly child deaths, accepted reports of concern, abuse substantiations and entries to care. The increase is caused by fewer children exiting care, particularly for children under 10 years old. There is a 33% increase in babies removed; this is regionalised and with more use of legal orders on unborn, as opposed to older babies. Disproportionality for Māori is increasing, while other groups remain stable or reduce. The use of kinship care has increased.IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE OR POLICY: Changes in rates of contact with the child protection system reflect complex interactions between demand and supply of services, social inequalities, the policy context and practice logics. Changing decision-making at intake reflects tightening criteria to focus on only the highest risk families. However, “supply” policies that focus on early removal to permanency and early-intervention discourses may result in an increasein younger children entering care, and staying longer once they get there. “Demand” policies affecting preventive service provision, social protections and institutionalised bias may also be contributors. More research is needed to fully understand these patterns.

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Seeman, Mary V. "Intervention to Prevent Child Custody Loss in Mothers with Schizophrenia." Schizophrenia Research and Treatment 2012 (2012): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/796763.

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Depending on jurisdiction, time period studied, and specifics of the population, approximately 50 percent of mothers who suffer from schizophrenia lose custody of their children. The aim of this paper is to recommend interventions aimed at preventing unnecessary custody loss. This paper reviews the social work, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, and law literature on mental illness and custody loss, 2000–2011. Recommendations to mothers are to (a) ensure family health (b) prevent psychotic relapse, (c) prepare in advance for crisis, (d) document daily parenting activities, (e) take advantage of available parenting resources, and f) become knowledgeable about legal issues that pertain to mental health and custody. From a policy perspective, child protection and adult mental health agencies need to dissolve administrative barriers and collaborate. Access to appropriate services will help mothers with schizophrenia to care appropriately for their children and allow these children to grow and develop within their family and community.

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