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The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: Child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool?
The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country, including the use of a predictive risk model ...
Interpreting children's best interests: needs, attachment and decision-making
Summary Many decisions in the child welfare arena revolve around the concept of ‘children’s best interests’, but determining what they actually consist of is contestable and subject to conflicting criteria. This article ...
Narrative as Identity: Postmodernism, Multiple Ethnicities, and Narrative Practice Approaches in Social Work
This paper uses the experiences of those who claim more than one ethnic identity to highlight the shortcomings of cultural competence models that presume neat, bounded cultural translation from one generation to the next. ...
Theorising the signs of safety approach to child protection social work: Positioning, codes and power
Many countries are struggling to reconcile the conflicting demands of heightened risk aversion cultivated by a reactionary public and media, and recognition of the rights of parents and children to family maintenance where ...
Weighing it up: family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision-making in Aotearoa/New Zealand
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 ...
Cultural Identity and the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: Ideology, Policy and Practice
This paper considers the directive contained in the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989 to maintain a child’s cultural identity when they are placed in foster care following substantiated abuse or neglect. ...
Informed outrage: tackling shame and stigma in poverty education in social work
The experience of poverty as shameful is felt by some people living in poverty due to the internalisation of stigmatising neo-liberal discourses which construe poverty as the consequence of individual failings of effort, ...
Commentary on: Why Do Pacific People with Multiple Ethnic Affiliations Have Poorer Subjective Wellbeing? Negative Ingroup Affect Mediates the Identity Tension Effect, (Manuela & Sibley, 2012)
This commentary is a response to the article described above. While applauding the attention given to the multi-ethnic population, it queries some aspects of the study design and findings. Specifically, I examine the ...
Going home: Managing ‘risk’ through relationship in returning children from foster care to their families of origin
This article reports on how workers and clients in child protection social work services manage the return home process. Social workers in these cases attempt to build relationships with clients that have therapeutic, ...
A Constructionist Approach to the Use of Arts-Based Materials in Social Work Education: Making Connections Between Art and Life
Providing engaging, relevant, and motivating courses to teach students about interpersonal social work theories is an ongoing challenge. The educator's problem is to provide an environment in which students engage with ...