Does social workers' personal experience with violence in the family relate to their professional responses, and how?Djeluje li privatno iskustvo s nasiljem u obitelji na stručne reakcije socijalnih radnica i kako?Ali osebna izkušnja z nasiljem v druž ini vpliva na strokovne reakcije socialnih delavk in kako?The study examines if and how social workers' personal experience with violence in the family relates to their professional responses to children's exposure to domestic violence and physical abuse. Four case vignettes depicting situations of physical child abuse and of children witnessing abuse of their mothers were responded to by 106 Slovene social workers. Their ratings of perceived risk to the child, responsibility for endangerment of the child and support for a range of interventions were correlated with their self-reported frequencies of receiving corporal punishment, witnessing father's violence against mother and experiencing violence from a husband/intimate partner in their private lives. While corporal punishment in social workers' childhoods
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