Child Welfare Decision Making in Context Part 2- An Exploration in Three Parts
Joel Gautschi
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Joel Gautschi, MA in Social Work, is a PhD student and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. His current research focus is on judgment and decision making in child protection, client-professional working relationships, tacit knowledge, trust, and factorial survey approach. He studies professional practice of social workers in quantitative and qualitative research projects.
Cora Bartelink
Netherlands Youth Institute
Cora Bartelink is a researcher and advisor at Netherlands Youth Institute. The Netherlands Youth Institute is the Dutch national institute for compiling, verifying and disseminating knowledge on children and youth matters. Its main aim is to improve the development of children and young people by increasing the quality and effectiveness of the services rendered to them and their parents. Cora is developing guidelines for professionals working in child welfare and child protection. Subjects of these guidelines are “Out-of-home placement”, “Out-of-home placement in crisis situations”, and “Deciding together with parents and children on appropriate help”. She also conducts research on decision-making on child maltreatment. Research methods include vignette study on reliability of decisions, retrospective case file study on transparency of decisions, and prospective validity study on risk assessment.
Vania Salvador Pinto
InED, REES Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford
Dr. Pinto has a degree in Psychological Sciences and a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, from ISPA - University Institute, in Portugal. Postgraduate programmes on “Protection of Minors”, at the Faculty of Law - University of Coimbra, and on “Data Analysis in the Social Science”, in ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, both in Portugal. DPhil Candidate in Education at the Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, conducting research in the field of placement success. Collaborator researcher at InEd-Center for Research and Innovation in Education, School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Main areas of research: child protection systems, foster care, indicators of placement success.
Abstract
Objective: This continuation of a symposium on child welfare decision making will present insights from three research teams that are conducting decision making research informed by theoretical frameworks such as the... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- John Fluke (Kempe Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
- Joel Gautschi (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)
- Cora Bartelink (Netherlands Youth Institute)
- Vania Salvador Pinto (InED, REES Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Topic Area
Child Protection Systems and Strategies at local, national and international levels
Session
Symposia19 » Session 3-Child Protection Systems (16:15 - Tuesday, 3rd October, Europe 2 Room)
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