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Jacqueline Stokes¹, Glen Schmidt

¹School of Academic Foundation and Academic Services, College of New Caledonia, Prince George, Canada.

|July 10, 2012

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Child protection social workers integrate objective risk assessment with subjective experience for decision-making. This approach balances procedural knowledge with individual social worker insights for better child welfare outcomes.

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Area of Science:

Social Work Research
Decision-Making Studies
Child Protection Services

Background:

Child protection social workers in British Columbia, Canada, operate within a risk assessment framework.
The practice involves balancing procedural guidelines with the relational aspects of client interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the decision-making processes of child protection social workers.
To understand how objective tools and subjective knowledge are integrated in practice.

Main Methods:

Factorial survey method utilizing 327 case vignettes assessed by 118 child protection social workers.
Vignettes were constructed with randomly assigned key characteristics relevant to decision-making.

Main Results:

Decisions on risk and service provision were influenced by technocratic knowledge, including risk assessment models.
Client contact and supportive functions were influenced by social workers' individual characteristics and experiential knowledge.
Social workers integrated objective, procedural, and experiential knowledge in their decision-making.

Conclusions:

Child protection decision-making extends beyond reliance on objective tools like risk assessment.
Social workers increasingly incorporate internalized subjective knowledge alongside procedural guidelines.
This integration suggests a nuanced approach to child welfare decision-making.