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Who owns the trauma? A K leinian perspective on the dialogue between child protection social workers and the media
Author(s) -
Ben Shlomo Shirley,
LevinKeini Noga
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/cfs.12211
Subject(s) - feeling , perspective (graphical) , value (mathematics) , welfare , child protection , sociology , field (mathematics) , social work , social psychology , social welfare , psychology , medicine , nursing , law , political science , visual arts , art , mathematics , machine learning , pure mathematics , computer science
The present paper makes use of the developmental model of movement between mental positions that was formulated by psychoanalyst M elanie K lein, aimed at understanding the dialogue that takes place between the media and social workers in the field of child welfare, centring around incidents of murder within the family. The basic concept in the paper is that when working with children who are victims of abuse and with their parents, and when reporting on them as well, the feeling of personal control is severely undermined, being associated with the loss of the hallowed social value known as ‘unconditional love of a parent for his child’. The paper illustrates these theoretical ideas by describing two cases that took place in I srael and recommendations are made regarding ways of promoting the dialogue between the professions.