1. Navigating the context of uncertainty in child protection practice.
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Žalimienė, Laimutė, Gevorgianienė, Violeta, Petružytė, Donata, Seniutis, Miroslavas, Gvaldaitė, Lijana, Šumskienė, Eglė, and Charenkova, Jūratė
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PROFESSIONAL practice ,SOCIAL workers ,RESEARCH methodology ,UNCERTAINTY ,INTERVIEWING ,RETROSPECTIVE studies ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,CHILD welfare ,DECISION making ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,RESEARCH funding ,SOCIAL services ,THEMATIC analysis ,DATA analysis software - Abstract
This article offers a conceptual framework within a decision-making (DM) context in situations, when child protection workers have to decide to either remove a child from his or her parents care or leave him or her in a family. Based on the thematic analysis of data from the 33 interviews, we have developed the concept of DM context as a space of uncertainty which is multilayered and implies an inherent duality of each contextual element. The study contributed to the research on work in a private setting, by revealing the role of agency culture and public attitudes in child protection workers' decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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