Deconstructing Discourses in Assessments of Child Neglect
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چکیده
Abstract This article presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring how child neglect is ‘performed’ in social work practice. Informed by Foucauldian and feminist theoretical positions, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten local authority workers, eight Children’s Centre professionals England parents who had received professional intervention due to concerns about neglect. In addition, case files analysed where was substantive concern. explores discourses that produced workers’ assessments neo-liberal context which cuts are being made childcare services, preoccupied identification management neglectful families risk. Professional debates surrounding contested thresholds into services categorisation explored. Judgements ‘good enough’ mothering as well bureaucratic managerial constraints holistic, analytical quality identified. The also performance children’s assessed identities through children become objects assessment rather than active subjects. concludes recommendations for practice future research.
منابع مشابه
Child abuse and neglect.
he publication of “The Battered Child” by C. Henry Kempe and coworkers introduced child maltreatment (CM) to the pediatric literature, and in the 46 years following its publication, the knowledge in the field has expanded. CM pervades every area of pediatrics. Pediatricians are mandated reporters and play an important role in the identification of child abuse and neglect. This article seeks to ...
متن کاملFathers and child neglect.
OBJECTIVE To examine the association between father involvement and child neglect. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Participants were recruited from an inner-city pediatric primary care clinic and a clinic for children at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection in a teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Mothers and fathers or father figures, and 244 five-year olds participating in a longitu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Social Work
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0045-3102', '1468-263X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab044