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Social workers' perspectives on parental engagement when children are at risk in Romanian society
Author(s) -
Popoviciu Salomea,
Birle Delia,
Popoviciu Ioan,
Bara Daniel
Publication year - 2013
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/j.1365-2206.2012.00851.x
Subject(s) - romanian , child protection , social work , context (archaeology) , social risk , scale (ratio) , perception , psychology , service (business) , social psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , political science , nursing , environmental health , business , geography , philosophy , linguistics , law , archaeology , cartography , marketing , neuroscience
This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in making the difficult choice of either taking the child into care or keeping the family together. The paper first explores the specific context of children at risk in Romanian society and explains that in this middle‐income nation there is an absence of evidence‐based risk assessment tools, which prompts social workers to use their own ‘common sense’ risk assessment indicators. The findings of this small‐scale, non‐representative study on several public non‐voluntary child protection services in Romania suggest that social workers' perceptions of specific dimensions of parental engagement in non‐voluntary child protection may influence service delivery decisions and outcomes.