Decision-Making processes in the child protection system:A comparative study between students and professionals in Portugal

Carvalho, 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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Abstract

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
Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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:	02 Aug 2025 00:28
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100003
DOI:	10.1080/15379418.2020.1729922

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