Out-of-home placement decisions: How individual characteristics of professionals are reflected in deciding about child protection cases

Haan, Whitney D. de; Berkel, Sheila R. van; Asdonk, Sabine van der; Finkenauer, Catrin; Forder, C.J.; IJzendoorn, M.H. van; Schuengel, Carlo; Alink, Lenneke R. A.

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“…Second, findings present the AVI as a valuable addition to a PCA protocol for case orientation and child placement decision, with ratings of capacity to care by AVI evaluators being effective predictors of child placement and re-reports of maltreatment 1 year following the PCA. The stakes are high for maltreated children at risk of home removal, and placement decisions are prone to error and bias ( De Haan et al, 2019 ). With this study, the AVI brings short attachment trainings to the forefront of clinical approaches that could be included to comprehensive PCAs to orient placement decision.…”

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“…While we know PCAs are critically important, decisionmaking in child placement cases is prone to bias due to individual characteristics of the caseworkers, such as their mind-set regarding the parents' ability to change or their attitudes towards out-of-home placement (De Haan et al, 2019). Furthermore, to better support placement decisions, improvements to PCAs have been proposed via the use of more structured and dynamic protocols in which parenting capacities would be assessed based on parents' responses to a short and manualized parent-child intervention (e.g., Cyr & Alink, 2017;Harnett et al, 2018;van IJzendoorn et al, 2018).…”

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An Attachment-Based Parental Capacity Assessment to Orient Decision-Making in Child Protection Cases: A Randomized Control Trial

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Two parenting capacity assessment (PCA) protocols, with a short parent-child intervention embedded in each protocol, evaluated the potential for enhanced parenting to orient child placement decision. Parents ( n = 69), with substantiated reports of maltreatment by child protective services, and their children (0–6) were randomly assigned to one of two PCAs with either the Attachment Video-feedback (PCA-AVI) or a psychoeducational intervention (PCA-PI) as the embedded intervention component. The PCA-AVI group showed the highest increases in parent-child interaction quality at post-test. Also, at PCA completion, evaluators’ conclusions about the parents’ capacity to care for both PCA groups were associated with parent-child interactive improvements at post-test, the court’s placement decision at post-test, and child placement one year later. However, only conclusions drawn by PCA-AVI evaluators were predictive of child re-reports of maltreatment in the year following PCA. PCAs, relying on short attachment interventions to assess the potential for enhanced parenting, are promising tools to orient child placement decisions.

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“…Making decisions that affect the lives of children is a complicated responsibility (Duncan, 2019;Stokes & Schmidt, 2012), as these decisions often involve limited knowledge, some degree of uncertainty, time constrains, and powerful emotions (De Haan et al, 2019;Whittaker, 2018). Sandberg (2018, p. 31), referring to the CRC, emphasises that in order to reach decisions that are in the best interests of a child, 'in any decision-making, it is a child's right to express views and have them taken into account'.…”

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Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child's Right to Participate

Falch‐Eriksen¹,

Toros²

2022

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This book explains and discusses how a child's right to freedom of expression is upheld through practice and decision-making in Child Protection Services (CPS).Using the right to expression as stipulated in Article 12.2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a point of departure, it explains what CPS practices should look like and how they must operate to uphold and enforce the rights of the child by providing "the opportunity to be heard" in any administrative practice. Current research literature documents extensively, and across countries, how either the voice of the child is not heard or, alternatively, the existence of a pro forma/ tokenistic approach to listening to the child throughout CPS practices. Taking a three-fold approach, this book • establishes a clearer connection between rights and professional practice according to Article 12 • extrapolates how rights-based practice is achieved during CPS First published 2023 by Routledge

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“…Measurement error and related issues of non-random measurement error have been discussed in some of the earliest work by Fisher (1926) and Working (1925). Since then, these topics have been extensively articulated and well-documented across many subdisciplines in economics, such as health, labor, industrial organization, and applied welfare analysis (Bound et al, 2001;Chesher and Schluter, 2002;De Haan et al, 2019;Gottschalk and Huynh, 2010;Hu and Schennach, 2008;Hyslop and Imbens, 2001;Pischke, 1995;Schennach, 2016Schennach, , 2004Rom et al, 2020). Most of these papers consistently highlight that bias induced in parameter estimates depends on the structure of the measurement error found in the data, as well as the identifying assumptions that empirical economists make when estimating those parameters.…”

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Agricultural Data Collection to Minimize Measurement Error and Maximize Coverage

Carletto¹,

Dillon²,

Zezza³

2021

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. Policy Research Working Paper 9745Advances in agricultural data production provide ever-increasing opportunities for pushing the research frontier in agricultural economics and designing better agricultural policy. As new technologies present opportunities to create new and integrated data sources, researchers face trade-offs in survey design that may reduce measurement error or increase coverage. This paper first reviews the econometric and survey methodology literatures that focus on the sources of measurement error and coverage bias in agricultural data collection. Second, it provides examples of how agricultural data structure affects testable empirical models. Finally, it reviews the challenges and opportunities offered by technological innovation to meet old and new data demands and address key empirical questions, focusing on the scalable data innovations of greatest potential impact for empirical methods and research. This paper is a product of the Development Data Group, Development Economics. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions around the world.

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Out-of-home placement decisions: How individual characteristics of professionals are reflected in deciding about child protection cases

Cited by 7 publications

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An Attachment-Based Parental Capacity Assessment to Orient Decision-Making in Child Protection Cases: A Randomized Control Trial

An Attachment-Based Parental Capacity Assessment to Orient Decision-Making in Child Protection Cases: A Randomized Control Trial

Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child's Right to Participate

Agricultural Data Collection to Minimize Measurement Error and Maximize Coverage

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