Weighing it up: family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision-making in Aotearoa/New Zealand
dc.contributor.author | Keddell, Emily | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T04:18:17Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Keddell, E. (2014). Weighing it up: family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision-making in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Child and Family Social Work, 916–940. doi:10.1111/cfs.12168 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6603 | |
dc.description.abstract | Examining the concepts underpinning the reasoning processes of social worker's decision-making provides important insights into how social work practice is undertaken. This paper examines one of the major discourses used by social workers in decision reasoning in a non-governmental organization child protection context in Aotearoa/New Zealand: family maintenance. This study found that family maintenance as a concept was strongly privileged by social workers. This resulted in attempts to preserve families and created a hierarchy of preferred decision outcomes. A preference for family maintenance was supported by legal, moral, psychological and Māori cultural concepts. This pattern of constructs underpinned the ‘weighing up of harms’ when considering removal, and generally reflected a child welfare orientation. In addition to this, it was found that ‘family’ was broadly defined, and could include people who had a relationship with the children, or Māori definitions of extended family, in addition to legal ones. | en_NZ |
dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | en_NZ |
dc.relation.ispartof | Child and Family Social Work | en_NZ |
dc.relation.uri | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cfs.12168/abstract | en_NZ |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Judgement | en_NZ |
dc.subject | child protection | en_NZ |
dc.subject | family presentation | en_NZ |
dc.subject | child abuse | en_NZ |
dc.title | Weighing it up: family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision-making in Aotearoa/New Zealand | en_NZ |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_NZ |
dc.date.updated | 2016-06-21T04:03:21Z | |
otago.school | Sociology, Gender and Social Work | en_NZ |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/cfs.12168 | en_NZ |
otago.bitstream.endpage | 940 | en_NZ |
otago.bitstream.startpage | 916 | en_NZ |
otago.openaccess | Abstract Only | en_NZ |
dc.rights.statement | © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd | en_NZ |
dc.description.refereed | Peer Reviewed | en_NZ |
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