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Does it feel right?—Emotional and embodied processes as a ‘shadowy epistemology’ in difficult child protection cases
The British Journal of Social Work ( IF 2.352 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 , DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcaa172
Line Søberg Bjerre 1 , Maria Appel Nissen 1
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Social workers in child protection services must make difficult decisions often based on fragmented knowledge and the inevitable risk of not knowing what is important to know about a child and the family. Cases of severe neglect have been subject to public attention of politicians and media in several European countries often followed by reforms with a strong focus on standardising risk assessment and documentation. This article argues and shows that emotional and embodied processes are an important source of knowledge in child protection. Such processes appear in social workers’ narratives about worries for the well-being and security of children underpinned by moments of silence and symbolic bodily utterances. These ways of communicating emotions help social workers navigate and make sense in child protection cases, where knowledge is limited. The question ‘Does it feel right?’ becomes crucial in terms of identifying and expressing potential risks. However, as a legitimate professional question that can lead to valuable knowledge it remains latent. Therefore, emotional and embodied processes constitute a ‘shadowy epistemology’ (Bruner, J. (1991) ‘The narrative construction of reality’, Critical Inquiry, 18(1), pp. 1–21). Instead of denouncing these processes, we need to develop a professional language of understanding and naming them, and the aim of this article is to contribute to this.

中文翻译:

感觉对吗?—在困难的儿童保护案件中,情感和具体体现为“阴暗的认识论”

儿童保护服务部门的社会工作者必须经常基于零散的知识以及不了解有关儿童和家庭重要知识的不可避免的风险来做出艰难的决定。严重忽视案件已引起欧洲几个国家政客和媒体的普遍关注,随后经常进行改革,重点是标准化风险评估和文件编制。本文论证并表明情感和体现过程是儿童保护知识的重要来源。在沉默寡言和象征性肢体言语支撑下,社会工作者在叙述对儿童的福祉和安全感的担忧时,就出现了这样的过程。这些交流情绪的方法可帮助社会工作者在知识有限的儿童保护案件中找到解决办法,并使他们变得有意义。问题“感觉对吗?” 在识别和表达潜在风险方面变得至关重要。但是,作为可以带来宝贵知识的合法专业问题,它仍然是潜在的。因此,情感的和具体化的过程构成了“阴影认识论”(布鲁纳,J。(1991)“现实的叙事建构”,《批判性探究》,第18(1)页,第1-21页)。除了谴责这些过程之外,我们还需要开发一种专业的语言来理解和命名它们,而本文的目的就是为此做出贡献。
更新日期:2020-12-03
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