Deadlocked Dialogues in Child Welfare

Abstract

In the interactions with families, child welfare workers investigate the parental capability to guarantee their children's safe and prosperous development. A main strategy of child welfare workers is to encourage parental reflection, which may help parents to consider the family problems from a more remote position. Findings from a two-fold case study show that the conversational mode of professionals and clients are crucial to bring about this reflective position. Both the professionals' abstract and layered approach and the legal context of family intervention may restrain clients to take a reflective position and to better see the nature of their problems and the ways to solve them.

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