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What do you think about parenting? Challenges to cohesiveness in child protection teams
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Child protection work requires professionals to manage the different perspec tives regarding intervention aims and strategies associated with different per sonal, academic and organisational backgrounds. Parenting assessment is a
determinant task for intervention and for children’s future where universal or
automatic criteria remain unavailable. This study aimed to explore and char acterise the existing agreement (and disagreement) between child protection
workers on statements related to judgements on parenting. A total of 325 Por tuguese social workers participated in the study, mostly with a background in
social work and psychology and more than six years of experience in child pro tection. Professionals were required to distribute 50 sentences in a scoring sheet
(Q-sort methodology) with 11 points. The results were interpreted through the
matrix of operationalisation of minimally adequate parenting. Three main
answer strands revealed different focuses in sorts’ configurations: the child, the
procedures and the child’s ecology. The clear difference between the factors
could contribute to maintaining the child protection system as an adversarial
one, and not as an effectively cooperative system. To promote team cohesive ness and intervention success, and to reinforce professionals’ wellbeing and
resilience, metacommunication on parenting assessment criteria is proposed as
a determinant strategy.
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Assessment Child protection Minimally adequate parenting Q-sort methodology . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades
Citation
Pereira, D. (2024) What do you Think about Parenting? Challenges to Cohesiveness in Child Protection Teams. Child Abuse Review, 33(1), e2858. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2858
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd.