The Importance of Information Processing in Child Protection Cases—A Study of Social Workers' Integration of Other Professionals' Knowledge.

The processes used by social workers to collect, interpret and use stakeholder information in child protection cases are an unexplored but essential part of the decision-making process. This study focuses on social workers' efforts to integrate the knowledge of other professionals. This article draw...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Social Work Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 1516 - 1535
Autores principales: Greve, Rakel Aasheim, Persdotter, Birgitta, Christiansen, Øivin, Jørgensen, Tone
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2024
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          Greve, Rakel Aasheim
          Persdotter, Birgitta
          Christiansen, Øivin
          Jørgensen, Tone
        affil: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences , PB, 7030 , Bergen 5020, Norway
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          Child Abuse Prevention and Control
          Child Safety
          Child Welfare
          Professional Knowledge
          Information Seeking Behavior
          Social Workers
          Mental Processes
          Knowledge Management
          Human
          Health Care Delivery, Integrated
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Social Worker Attitudes
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          Interview Guides
          Problem Solving
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          Social Work Practice
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          Social Responsibility
          Professional Role
          Interprofessional Relations
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      ab: The processes used by social workers to collect, interpret and use stakeholder information in child protection cases are an unexplored but essential part of the decision-making process. This study focuses on social workers' efforts to integrate the knowledge of other professionals. This article draws on a framework for managing knowledge across organisational boundaries and a process-oriented conceptualisation of knowledge integration. The analysis of ten interviews with social workers shows that the process of knowledge integration affects the basis of social workers' decision making. We argue that knowledge possessed by other professionals is often viewed as easily transferrable and correctly received, when in fact this knowledge is often complex and subjective and requires extra effort to obtain, understand and integrate into case-specific situations. This implies a need to recognise information processing as an influencing factor in decision making within child protection that pertains to both practice and research.
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