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Dealing with the interplay of child image, protection and participation
van Bijleveld, G.G.
2019
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van Bijleveld, G. G. (2019). Dealing with the interplay of child image, protection and participation: A critical reflection on the essence of child participation in child protection services.
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Table of Content
Table of Content ... 5
Account ... 9
Chapter 1: General introduction ... 11
1.1 Outline of the thesis ... 17
Chapter 2: Contextual and theoretical background ... 19
2.1 The contextual background of child protection services ... 21
2.1.1. Child protection services internationally ... 21
2.1.2. Child Protection Services in the Netherlands ... 22
2.1.3. The Bureau of Youth Care Amsterdam ... 26
2.2 Theoretical Background ... 29
2.2.1. Child participation ... 29
2.2.2. Participation within child protection services ... 34
2.2.3. Child image ... 40
Chapter 3: Research design ... 47
3.1 Objectives and main research question ... 49
3.2 Research approach ... 50
3.3 Data collection and analysis ... 52
3.4 Validity ... 56
3.5 Ethical considerations ... 57
Chapter 4: Children’s and young people’s participation within child welfare and child protection services: State of the art ... 61
4.1 Introduction ... 63
4.2 Background ... 64
4.3 Method ... 66
4.4 Results ... 67
4.4.1. The perspective of children and young people ... 70
4.4.2. The perspective of the social workers ... 73
Chapter 5: Seeing eye to eye, or not? Young people’s and child protection workers’ perspectives on children’s participation within the Dutch
child protection and welfare services ... 81
5.1 Introduction ... 83
5.2 Theoretical background ... 84
5.2.1. The concept of participation ... 84
5.2.2. Child protection services in the Netherlands ... 85
5.3 Material and Methods ... 86
5.3.1. Participants ... 86
5.3.2. Interview design and data collection ... 88
5.3.3. Data analysis ... 88
5.3.4. Ethical considerations ... 88
5.4 Findings ... 89
5.4.1. The views of case managers ... 89
5.4.2. The views of young people ... 92
5.5 Conclusion and discussion ... 94
Chapter 6: Exploring the dominant child image(s) in a Dutch Child Protection Service Agency; how do these images relate to child participation? .. ... 99 6.1 Introduction ... 101 6.2 Theoretical background ... 102 6.3 Method ... 104 6.3.1. Participants ... 104 6.3.2. Data collection ... 105 6.3.3. Data analysis ... 106 6.3.4. Ethical considerations ... 106 6.4 Results ... 106
6.4.1. How are children and their position portrayed in the core policy documents of the organization? ... 107
6.4.2. How are children and their position portrayed by the case managers? ... 108
Chapter 7: Co-creating participation tools with children within child protection
services: what lessons we can learn from the children. ... 117
7.1 Introduction ... 119
7.2 Defining child participation ... 121
7.3 Methods ... 122
7.3.1. Participants ... 124
7.3.2. Data analysis ... 125
7.3.3. Ethical considerations ... 125
7.4 Results ... 126
7.4.1. Experiences with participating in the decision-making process ... 126
7.4.2. Creating the first tools ... 128
7.5 Discussion ... 131
7.6 Conclusion ... 133
Chapter 8: ‘It was me, I was the barrier…’: a critical reflection on the essence of enabling child participation within child protection services ... 135
8.1 Introduction ... 137 8.2 Methods ... 139 8.2.1. Data collection ... 139 8.2.2. Participants ... 140 8.2.3. The toolbox ... 140 8.2.4. Data analysis ... 141 8.3 Results ... 142
8.3.1. The first exploration of the toolbox... 142
8.3.2. Putting the toolbox in practice ... 144
8.3.3. Together discovering the underlying barriers ... 146
8.4 Conclusions and discussion ... 148
Chapter 9: Conclusions and discussion ... 153
9.1 Defining meaningful participation in daily child protection practice ... ... 155
9.1.1. The case managers’ perspective on child participation ... 156
9.1.3. Defining meaningful participation in the context of child protection
services at JBRA ... 159
9.2 The interplay between child image, child protection and child participation ... 160
9.3 Strategies for moving the participation agenda forward in daily child protection services ... 166
9.3.1. Involve children in the change process ... 166
9.3.2. Facilitate knowledge exchange and critical reflection ... 167
9.4 Implications for practice ... 168
9.5 Strengths and limitations ... 169
9.6 Directions for further research ... 171
References ... 173
Summary ... 189
Samenvatting ... 199
Account
Chapters 4 to 8 are based on co-authored articles that are published in, pending revisions of, under review of or submitted to peer-reviewed journals.
Chapter 4
van Bijleveld, G. G., Dedding, C. W., & Bunders-Aelen, J. F. (2015). Children's and young people's participation within child welfare and child protection services: a state-of-the-art review. Child & Family Social Work, 20(2), 129-138.
Chapter 5
Van Bijleveld, G. G., Dedding, C. W. M., & Bunders-Aelen, J. F. G. (2014). Seeing eye to eye or not? Young people's and child protection workers' perspectives on children's participation within the Dutch child protection and welfare services. Children and
Youth Services Review, 47, 253-259.
Chapter 6
Van Bijleveld, G.G. & Dedding, C.W.M. (under review). Exploring the dominant child image(s) in a Dutch Child Protection Service Agency; how do these images relate to child participation? Children and Youth Services Review.
Chapter 7
Van Bijleveld, G.G., de Vetten, M. & Dedding, C.W.M. (accepted with minor revisions). Co-creating participation tools with children within child protection services: what lessons we can learn from the children. Action Research.
Chapter 8
