| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | Empirical methods for studying decision-making in child welfare and protection |
| Authors: | Gautschi, Joel Benbenishty, Rami |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0003 |
| Published in: | Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection |
| Editors of the parent work: | Fluke, John D. López López, Mónica Benbenishty, Rami Knorth, Erik J. Baumann, Donald J. |
| Page(s): | 57 |
| Pages to: | 80 |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | New York |
| ISBN: | 9780190059538 9780190059569 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Empirical Methods; Child Protection; Decision-Making; Judgment |
| Subject (DDC): | 150: Psychology 362.7: Youth services |
| Abstract: | Studying the complex nature of decision making in child welfare and protection is challenging. Researchers in this field use various empirical methods, each with its advantages and limitation. This review aims to describe the current state of the art of the most prominent empirical methods to study this subject, and to identify empirical methods from other fields, with the potential to advance decision-making research in child protection. We briefly describe methods for decision-making research, give examples how these methods were used, and critically assess their strengths and limitations. We first review the 'black-box' input-output analysis and describe the use of case files and administrative data, agency surveys and experimental designs with simulated cases. We then describe methods to trace decision processes, based on verbalization (think-aloud), behavior (tracing information acquisition), and people’s sense making in everyday contexts (ethnographic observations). The review ends with recommendations of future directions for research on decision making in child protection. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/23089 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Social Work |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family (IKJF) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Soziale Arbeit |
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Gautschi, J., & Benbenishty, R. (2021). Empirical methods for studying decision-making in child welfare and protection. In J. D. Fluke, M. López López, R. Benbenishty, E. J. Knorth, & D. J. Baumann (Eds.), Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection (pp. 57–80). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0003
Gautschi, J. and Benbenishty, R. (2021) ‘Empirical methods for studying decision-making in child welfare and protection’, in J.D. Fluke et al. (eds) Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 57–80. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0003.
J. Gautschi and R. Benbenishty, “Empirical methods for studying decision-making in child welfare and protection,” in Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection, J. D. Fluke, M. López López, R. Benbenishty, E. J. Knorth, and D. J. Baumann, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 57–80. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0003.
GAUTSCHI, Joel und Rami BENBENISHTY, 2021. Empirical methods for studying decision-making in child welfare and protection. In: John D. FLUKE, Mónica LÓPEZ LÓPEZ, Rami BENBENISHTY, Erik J. KNORTH und Donald J. BAUMANN (Hrsg.), Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection. New York: Oxford University Press. S. 57–80. ISBN 9780190059538
Gautschi, Joel, and Rami Benbenishty. 2021. “Empirical Methods for Studying Decision-Making in Child Welfare and Protection.” In Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection, edited by John D. Fluke, Mónica López López, Rami Benbenishty, Erik J. Knorth, and Donald J. Baumann, 57–80. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0003.
Gautschi, Joel, and Rami Benbenishty. “Empirical Methods for Studying Decision-Making in Child Welfare and Protection.” Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection, edited by John D. Fluke et al., Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 57–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059538.003.0003.
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