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- Title
The child, the parents, the family and the state - Chile and Norway compared.
- Authors
Ellingsen, Ingunn T.; Studsrød, Ingunn; Muñoz-Guzmán, Carolina
- Abstract
There is a lack of research comparing Latin American and European countries alongside how family policy relates to social work practices. This study fills in the research gap, and compares Chilean and Norwegian social workers' conceptions of children's position in the family, in family work in a complex family case, and how their understandings impact on CWS practices when working with families with complex needs in each context. A total of 19 social workers participated in the study. The participants took part in four focus groups, discussing a complex family case (vignette). The results of the analysis reveal similarities and difference across contexts, according to children's position in CWS work, social worker's understandings of the responsibilities of parents and the type of family interventions they were inclined to offer. The Chilean social workers seem more family-, and adultoriented than their Norwegian counterparts, which holds an individualized child oriented view when discussing the case. Moreover, when issues interventions, the Norwegian social workers seems to relay more on the state, whereas the Chilean workers place more trust on the family network. Practical implications of the findings are discussed in light of family welfare policy and child welfare discourses.
- Subjects
NORWAY; FAMILY policy; SOCIAL workers
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0809-9936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31265/jcsw.v14i1.234