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Judgements about parenting: what do social workers think they are doing?
Author(s) -
Daniel Brigid
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/1099-0852(200003/04)9:2<91::aid-car594>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , perception , psychology , social work , social psychology , political science , law , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence
This paper describes a study that looks at interrelationships between social workers' beliefs about the important elements of parenting to ensure a child's well‐being and their perceptions about what underpins their decision‐making about child care and protection. Q methodology is used to explore the range of views of a group of Scottish social workers. Eight different strands of opinion were revealed, three of which will be discussed in detail. They indicate that there is broad consistency of opinion within factors. That is, there is a link between views about children's needs and decision‐making. However, the different factors also demonstrate that there are clusters of significantly different opinions about priorities in assessing parenting. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.