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Stokes, Jacqueline; Schmidt, Glen – Social Work, 2012
This study explored decision making by child protection social workers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. A factorial survey method was used in which case vignettes were constructed by randomly assigning a number of key characteristics associated with decision making in child protection. Child protection social workers (n = 118) assessed…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Child Abuse, Home Visits, Foreign Countries
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Barth, Richard P.; Lloyd, E. Christopher; Christ, Sharon L.; Chapman, Mimi V.; Dickinson, Nancy S. – Social Work, 2008
The education, recruitment, training, and retention of a quality child welfare workforce is critical to the successful implementation of public policy and programs for the nation's most vulnerable children. Yet, national information about child welfare workers has never been collected. The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being is a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Job Satisfaction, Child Welfare, Counties