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ToolsCarvalho, João M. S., Pinto, Vânia S. and Delgado, Paulo (2020) Decision-making processes in the child protection system: A comparative study between students and professionals in Portugal. Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody and Child Development, 17 (1). pp. 58-75. ISSN 2690-4586
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This research aims to achieve a better understanding of factors that influence the assessments and decisions of professionals and students about the possibility to remove a child at risk from her birth family. The study also analyzes the influence of the attitudes of the child’s mother on that decision. It was used a questionnaire based on a case vignette of alleged child maltreatment. Compared with students, professionals were more pro-removal, more in favor of reunification and parents’ participation in the decisions, and had a higher assessment of emotional abuse, and emotional and physical neglect. Mother’s wish did not show to have any impact in the two samples regarding maltreatment, risk assessments, and intervention recommendations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Carvalho, João (2019), “Portuguese data”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/p2kh8mxx3x.1 at http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/p2kh8mxx3x.1 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | attitudes,decision on removal,professionals,risk assessment,students,health(social science),social psychology,developmental and educational psychology,law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Social Work |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2025 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2025 14:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100003 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15379418.2020.1729922 |
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