Terra Incognita? Efforts in „charting" the size of child maltreatment in Europe
Andreas Jud
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work
Andreas Jud, Ph.D., contributes for more than a decade to the growing empirical knowledge base on child protection and child maltreatment epidemiology. He is currently staff at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work, and heads several research projects on decision-making in Swiss child protective services, e.g. on reporting alleged child maltreatment, standardized assessment, enacting child protection orders, etc. An SNSF-sponsored scholarship at Montreal’s McGill University launched his international career with conceptual and empirical output on different child protection systems. Both nationally and internationally, he is strongly advocating for an improved epidemiological data collection on legal, health and social services responses to child maltreatment. As an editor of a WHO toolkit on this topic (Jud, Jones, & Mikton, 2015), he has rallied internationally renowned experts for the cause.
Flora Bolter
Observatoire national de la protection de l'enfance (ONPE)
Flora Bolter is a political scientist. She has worked in different positions connected to the evaluation and setting up of public policies, first as a parliamentary assistant, then as the head of the research and evaluation unit in a social work NGO in Paris, and finally at the French observatory of child protection (Observatoire national de la protection de l'enfance - ONPE, www.onpe.gouv.fr), where she currently works as research officer. ONPE (a branch of the Public interest group GIPED) is the public agency particularly in charge of documenting and studying evolutions in the field of child protection in France, in terms of procedures and practices as well as in terms of overall population data. It has been created by law in 2004 and operates an observation system that relies on a network of locally-based observatories. It also promotes research in these fields.
Christoph Liel
German Youth Institute
Christoph Liel is senior researcher at the German Youth Institute, Department of Family and Family Politics. He holds a Dipl. and a M.A. in social work and is involved in the "Kinder in Deutschland" Kid 0-3 national prevalence studies on psychosocial burdens conducted by the National Centre on Early Prevention. As social worker he has long-term clinical expertise in family counseling and treatment of perpetrators and is joint founder of the German umbrella organization for batterer programs. His current dissertation project focuses on fathers at risk for child maltreatment. Research fields: risk assessment and intervention studies in social work, father involvement in child protection, risk epidemiology and data-collection on child maltreatment
Svein Arild Vis
UIT The Artic University of Norway
Vis is a Doctor of Heath Science at UIT The Artic University of Norway, Faculty of Health Sciences, Center for child and adolescent mental health and protection. His interests are methods and systems in child protection for organization of child protective work, decision-making in child protection, children’s mental health and child participation. Vis is currently the principal investigator for a 4 year research program commissioned by the Norwegian child protection authorities to evaluate current assessment practices in Norwegian child protection services.
Abstract
The number of population surveys on the prevalence of child maltreatment is increasing. Yet, their variability in definitions, methods and findings is still striking, their comparability therefore limited and the “true”... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Andreas Jud (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work)
- Flora Bolter (Observatoire national de la protection de l'enfance (ONPE))
- Christoph Liel (German Youth Institute)
- Svein Arild Vis (UIT The Artic University of Norway)
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Session
Symposia20 » Session 1-Child Protection Systems (09:00 - Wednesday, 4th October, Oceania Room)
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