child welfare;
children;
discourse;
critical social work;
D O I:
10.1080/02650530802099791
中图分类号:
C916 [社会工作、社会管理、社会规划];
学科分类号:
1204 ;
摘要:
Ideas of childhood and children are arguably at the very centre of child protection policy, theory and practice, and yet very little attention has been placed on discourses of children and childhood in this field. In this paper we begin to examine how discourses of childhood are reproduced in a child protection context by looking at the talk of practising child protection workers and supervisors in Ontario, Canada. We found that child welfare workers' talk about children suggests that two discourses about children dominate: a discourse of the child as vulnerable and in need of rescue and a discourse of the child as a rights-bearing individual. We will argue that both these discourses contribute to a symbolic extraction of the child from the family and in this way they function to distance workers from the emotional impact of their practice with parents and children. We will consider the implications of this conceptual extraction of the child from the family and make a case for a more complex understanding of children that reflects the intertwined relationship between parents and children. Lastly, a practice approach to child protection that helps workers to absorb the subjectivities of both children and their parents will be proposed.
机构:
Univ Witten Herdecke, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Abt Kinderschutz, Med Kinderschutzambulanz, Dr Friedrich Steiner Str 5, D-45711 Datteln, GermanyUniv Witten Herdecke, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Abt Kinderschutz, Med Kinderschutzambulanz, Dr Friedrich Steiner Str 5, D-45711 Datteln, Germany
Bruening, Tanja
Oberle, Andreas
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Olgahosp Klinikum Stuttgart, Sozialpadiatr Zentrum, Stuttgart, GermanyUniv Witten Herdecke, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Abt Kinderschutz, Med Kinderschutzambulanz, Dr Friedrich Steiner Str 5, D-45711 Datteln, Germany
Oberle, Andreas
Mohr, Cornelia
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Univ Witten Herdecke, Abt Kinderschutz, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Datteln, GermanyUniv Witten Herdecke, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Abt Kinderschutz, Med Kinderschutzambulanz, Dr Friedrich Steiner Str 5, D-45711 Datteln, Germany
Mohr, Cornelia
Hoischen, Ann Katrin M. A.
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Univ Witten Herdecke, Abt Kinderschutz, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Datteln, GermanyUniv Witten Herdecke, Vest Kinder & Jugendklin Datteln, Abt Kinderschutz, Med Kinderschutzambulanz, Dr Friedrich Steiner Str 5, D-45711 Datteln, Germany
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Univ London Goldsmiths Coll, Dept Profess & Community Educ, London SE14 6NW, EnglandUniv London Goldsmiths Coll, Dept Profess & Community Educ, London SE14 6NW, England
Bernard, Claudia
Gupta, Anna
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Univ London Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Dept Hlth & Social Care, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, EnglandUniv London Goldsmiths Coll, Dept Profess & Community Educ, London SE14 6NW, England
Gupta, Anna
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK,
2008,
38
(03):
: 476
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492
机构:
Tallinn Univ, Sch Governance Law & Soc, Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn Univ, Inst Social Work, Narva Mnt 25, EE-10120 Tallinn, EstoniaTallinn Univ, Sch Governance Law & Soc, Tallinn, Estonia