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Decisão, risco e incerteza: retirada ou reunificação de crianças e jovens em perigo?
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This study aims to better understand what influences and determines decisions
in contexts characterized by complexity and uncertainty, and contributes to the development
of recommendations for practice. Based on the work of Davidson-Arad and
Benbenishty (2008, 2010), we intended to understand how students from higher education,
in scientific areas related to professions involved in decision making processes of children
and young people at risk individual care plan, would decide in the presence of a specific case
with different scenarios. Participated in the study 200 university students from different regions
of Portugal. We used a factorial design (2×2) that involved a questionnaire vignette
with four versions. The questionnaire describes the case of a child suspected of being a victim
of violence and requires the students to make a decision about the kind of intervention
that should be applied in that moment. In addition they must also decide, if the child
was removed from her home, whether or not the child should be reunited with the biological
family after two years. Among the key findings we highlight the fact that students recognized
the risk posed to the child as suffering significant physical and emotional harm.
Nevertheless, most decided in favour of an intervention with the biological family, avoiding
the removal of the child from their life context. However, in the case of a decision favouring
foster care, the majority of the students considered that the child should remain with
the foster family when they were asked to reassess the case after two years. It is noted, with
statistical significance, that the decision was influenced at first by the agreement or not of
the mother to withdrawal and secondly by the child’s desire to be reunited or not with the
birth family. We concluded that the development of professional evaluation criteria and
decision making should be addressed by including in the curriculum of higher education
programmes in the field of child protection, the study of the criteria for the withdrawal, the
conditions for the reunification and the advantages of involving the child and the biological
family in the intervention.
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Keywords
Welfare services Child abuse Risk assessment Decision making Foster care
Citation
Delgado, P., Carvalho, J. M. S., Pinto, V., & Martins, T. (2016). Decisão, risco e incerteza: retirada ou reunificação de crianças e jovens em perigo? Pedagogia Social – Revista Interuniversitaria, 28 (2), 217-228.