Research Review: Child and family support services with minority ethnic families: what can we learn from research?

Chand, Ashok; Thoburn, June

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2005.00367.x

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“…The effects of insufficient worker skill and knowledge on engagement are well documented (Forrester et al 2008;Smith 2008), and factors such as reliability, honesty, listening, giving accurate information and so on are known to make a positive contribution (e.g. Chand & Thoburn 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: an integrated model

Platt

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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This paper takes an ecological approach to understanding engagement of parents with services when children may be at risk of abuse/maltreatment. Gaining parental cooperation is a fundamental factor affecting social work interventions, treatment and decision‐making. Based on a review of current literature, the paper adapts the Multifactor Offender Readiness Model to the child welfare context, using insights from other theoretical and empirical work. Parental engagement with child welfare services is portrayed as having behavioural, attitudinal and relationship components, and is determined by internal (service user) and external (policy, programme and worker) factors.

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Section: Worker/therapistmentioning

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Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: an integrated model

Platt

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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“…In this perspective, the analytical theme learning to parent uncovers structural arrangements within CWS that enable parents' participation. At the caseworker level, Hannah's account is in line with a comprehensive body of research stating that social workers' relational skills are positively linked to ethnic minority service users' satisfaction (Chand & Thoburn, ; Fylkesnes & Netland, ). Hannah and Beth's accounts also reflect how different ideas of parenting are negotiated within the CWS context.…”

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Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway

Fylkesnes

Iversen

Nygren

2017

Child & Family Social Work

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Evaluating the participatory opportunities for service users within social welfare institutions is a pressing issue. In this article, we explore a group of ethnic minority parents' experiences with child welfare services (CWS) in Norway. A strong narrative theme was deficiency positioning-how lacking a Norwegian normative set of knowledge and skills challenged the parents' opportunities to participate. We analysed how deficiency positioning was perceived, negotiated, and contested in the parents' accounts, and 4 themes emerged: (a) learning to parent, (b) contesting expert knowledge, (c) learning to be a client, and (d) constructing CWS deficiency. Nancy Fraser's concept of "participatory parity" was applied to explore how current institutional structures may enable and limit parents' participation. The analysis provides insight into agencies and informants' sense-making processes as well as the diverse resources and strategies that parents draw upon in the CWS encounter.Furthermore, we argue that an interplay between a strong focus on "parenting skills" and bureaucratic and economic structures positions ethnic minority parents as deficient, thus providing powerful mechanisms for marginalization. Implications for case work and institutional levels are discussed. Paul's reference to the "scandal" of poor information for refugees about the mandate of Norwegian CWS can be linked to recent debates in international media where ethnic minority parents criticize Norwegian CWS, stating that these services lack cultural sensitivity and wrongfully intervene in families' lives (Skivenes, 2014). Paul's claim can also be linked to a broader debate within social work regarding cultural diversity and the competencies that social workers must possess to meet the specific needs of ethnic minority populations (Freund & Band-Winterstein, 2015;Williams, 2006).In this article, we explore these questions from the perspective of ethnic minority parents who have encountered Norwegian CWS. We --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…The family group conference does not always travel as smoothly into different families as reformers may envision—at times, it incorporates cultural dynamics, and at other times, it reshapes cultural dynamics to achieve the state's own ends. Nonetheless, the technique of conferencing travels widely: to Canada, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere—and into families perceived as part of minority ethnic groups (Chand and Thoburn, :175). In New Zealand, it is precisely because Samoan community workers can adapt the family group conference to Samoan migrant families’ needs through certain acts of translation that the family group conference can travel as it does.…”

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When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand

Cohen

Gershon

2015

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In 1989 New Zealand legislators revised their child welfare legislation, partially in response to Māori and Pacific Island critiques that the previous state‐centered regime had failed to take into account their culturally distinctive techniques for being a family and had failed to support culturally specific practices of decision making and conflict resolution. Legislators instituted a new and increasingly popular form of alternative dispute resolution—the family group conference—in an attempt to create a bureaucratic response to family dysfunction that was capacious enough to allow for any and every family's involvement. In the process, however, they continued to understand what counts as a family along nuclear family lines. Against the New Zealand lawmakers’ assumptions, this article illustrates how, in the context of transnational migration, Samoan families experience tensions between the nuclear family unit that lawmakers envision and their lived extended kinship groups. As extended families, Samoan migrant families’ goal is not to produce socially productive citizens for the nation‐state, but rather to produce a transnational family reputation. Thus, despite the legislators’ efforts to create culturally sensitive forms for family conflict resolution, Samoan social workers and community counselors had to translate the legislative act for Samoan families, negotiating and managing the conflicting presuppositions of what it means to be a nuclear family embedded in the act and what it means to be an extended family for Samoans.

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Research Review: Child and family support services with minority ethnic families: what can we learn from research?

Cited by 41 publications

References 15 publications

Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: an integrated model

Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: an integrated model

Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway

When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand

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