”Jag skulle aldrig svika ett barn” : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om kuratorers resonemang kring att orosanmäla vid misstanke om att barn far illa.
(2020) SOPA63 20201School of Social Work
- Abstract
- How do professional counselors understand and rationalize their responsibility to report child maltreatment when worried about a child? The aim of this study was to analyze how school counselors and health care counselors talk about their obligation to report child maltreatment to the social services, and how their reasoning affects the protection of children in Sweden. The method chosen was qualitative interviews with four different counselors. Two counselors were recruited from two different primary and middle schools, and two health care counselors were recruited from the same team at the psychiatric ward for children and youths (BUP). Discourse analysis, and childhood sociology, was applied in the theoretical examination of the... (More)
- How do professional counselors understand and rationalize their responsibility to report child maltreatment when worried about a child? The aim of this study was to analyze how school counselors and health care counselors talk about their obligation to report child maltreatment to the social services, and how their reasoning affects the protection of children in Sweden. The method chosen was qualitative interviews with four different counselors. Two counselors were recruited from two different primary and middle schools, and two health care counselors were recruited from the same team at the psychiatric ward for children and youths (BUP). Discourse analysis, and childhood sociology, was applied in the theoretical examination of the material. The study’s result show that it is difficult for the counselors to fulfil their obligation to report child mistreatment. The difficulty is that the counselors struggle to decide if they should focus on the child or the parent’s perspective. The ideological dilemma discussed in this analysis is whether the focus when reporting child maltreatment should be based on the perspective of the child or the perspective of the guardians. Swedish childcare has a long tradition of providing family-oriented services. Now that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been implemented into Swedish law, the perspective of the child is uplifted, which creates a dilemma. Thus, the study’s final result show that the problem derives from how the laws are written. Further discussion is needed about how the child’s perspective is incorporated into the Swedish childcare service system. (Less)
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- author
- Hultgren, Anna LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- child maltreatment, best interest of the child, counselor, social services, reporting obligation.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9015049
- date added to LUP
- 2020-06-12 08:47:59
- date last changed
- 2020-06-12 08:47:59
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abstract = {{How do professional counselors understand and rationalize their responsibility to report child maltreatment when worried about a child? The aim of this study was to analyze how school counselors and health care counselors talk about their obligation to report child maltreatment to the social services, and how their reasoning affects the protection of children in Sweden. The method chosen was qualitative interviews with four different counselors. Two counselors were recruited from two different primary and middle schools, and two health care counselors were recruited from the same team at the psychiatric ward for children and youths (BUP). Discourse analysis, and childhood sociology, was applied in the theoretical examination of the material. The study’s result show that it is difficult for the counselors to fulfil their obligation to report child mistreatment. The difficulty is that the counselors struggle to decide if they should focus on the child or the parent’s perspective. The ideological dilemma discussed in this analysis is whether the focus when reporting child maltreatment should be based on the perspective of the child or the perspective of the guardians. Swedish childcare has a long tradition of providing family-oriented services. Now that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been implemented into Swedish law, the perspective of the child is uplifted, which creates a dilemma. Thus, the study’s final result show that the problem derives from how the laws are written. Further discussion is needed about how the child’s perspective is incorporated into the Swedish childcare service system.}},
author = {{Hultgren, Anna}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”Jag skulle aldrig svika ett barn” : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om kuratorers resonemang kring att orosanmäla vid misstanke om att barn far illa.}},
year = {{2020}},
}