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- Title
Social workers understanding of extended family's position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway.
- Authors
Oltedal, Siv; Studsrød, Ingunn; Naujanienė, Rasa; Muñoz Guzmán, Carolina
- Abstract
Internationally, negotiations between child welfare and protection services and families are a contested area. This comparative study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway uses a vignette and focus groups to explore how child protection workers in various contexts understand families, and how they involve extended families in child protection work. The analysis reveals a fluid and varied understanding of the family and of family practices. The results also show variations across contexts in how they involved extended family members. Norwegian workers tend to lean on a rather riskoriented understanding of families and their impact on children, primarily without involving the extended family. On the other hand, in general Chilean, and to some extent Lithuanian workers, put more of an emphasis on possible resources and in problem-solving within families, relying more on the involvement of-, and support from, the extended families. Hence, extended families' rights and duties regarding the children vary among countries.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; CHILE; NORWAY; EXTENDED families; CHILD welfare; SOCIAL workers; CHILD protection services; VERSTEHEN; FAMILY services
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
0809-9936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31265/jcsw.v15i1.285