Children and Young People Who Harm Others

Barter, Christine

doi:10.1002/car.2293

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“…Applying protective factors to children who pose a serious threat of harm to others requires practitioners to balance the child's vulnerability and underlying problems (e.g. attachment issues, trauma) with controls and sanctions that manage the risk generated by the child (Barter, 2013). For Baker (2008Baker ( , p. 1475 an integral feature of this process is for practitioners to understand the "multidimensional nature of the risks" in the assessment and intervention with children who harm others, whereby risk can have negative and positive consequences.…”

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Reconceptualizing protective factors in response to risk with vulnerable children

Heron

Lightowler

2023

Journal of Social Work

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The quality and robustness of childcare professionals’ thinking about protective factors is crucial to interventions with vulnerable children. Yet, protective factors in childcare are under-conceptualized in policy and practice and have been overshadowed by the concept of risk. This study uses discourse analysis to examine how childcare professionals discuss protective factors in response to risk and in a way that demonstrates critical thinking. Findings Data was collected from 30 consultation meetings, which involve a total of 109 professionals. The consultation meetings focus on the assessment of a child who presents a serious risk of harm to others and who are themselves at risk. The findings suggest that professionals do discuss protective factors in response to risk, however, it occurs on a ratio of approximately one to nine, which suggests a level of separation in the way these terms are conceptualized in practice. Application It is suggested that a professional construct of “protective factors versus risk,” which is applied with critical thinking, will offer a more robust way of conceptualizing the support provided to vulnerable children. While professionals have to analyze risk in terms of what is wrong, it is equally crucial to include protective factors in a strategy for it to work. A starting point is for professionals to re-construct protective factors and risk and apply it with critical thinking to core elements of social work practice, such as assessments, multi-disciplinary meetings and the verbal communications with service users.

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Section: Understanding Protective Factors In Response To Riskmentioning

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Reconceptualizing protective factors in response to risk with vulnerable children

Heron

Lightowler

2023

Journal of Social Work

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Children as ‘Risk'

McAlinden¹

2018

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Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks as well as primary research completed for a forthcoming book (Cambridge University Press, 2018), this seminar will critically examine sociopolitical constructions of 'risk' related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children and young people. It charts the emergence of harmful sexual or exploitative behaviour among peers against a backdrop of the premature cultural sexualisation of contemporary childhood which normalises 'risky' sexual practices and challenges traditional conceptions of childhood, victimhood and gendered sexual identities more broadly. It examines the nuances and complexities of peerbased sexual behaviours in a range of settings including within organisational contexts such as schools and care homes, within families and peer-based relationships including within 'gang' and 'party culture', as well as on-line contexts such as sexting and cyberbullying. The seminar will also draw out the myriad legal, practical and policy challenges of negotiating the boundaries between normal/experimental, risky/problematic and harmful sexual behaviour among peers, and in particular the often blurred demarcation between coercion and consent, both for legal and other professionals as well as children and young people themselves. Anne-MarieMcAlinden is Professor in the School of Law, Queens University Belfast. Her main research interests lie in the areas of the management of violent and sexual offenders, institutional child abuse, and restorative justice where she has published extensively.

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Conceptualising Children as ‘Risk’: An Introduction

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Children as ‘Risk'

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Children and Young People Who Harm Others

Cited by 16 publications

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Reconceptualizing protective factors in response to risk with vulnerable children

Reconceptualizing protective factors in response to risk with vulnerable children

Children as ‘Risk'

Conceptualising Children as ‘Risk’: An Introduction

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