Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2011 Jul;81(3):372-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01105.x.
This study examines court petitions constructed by 19 Israeli social workers in cases involving the placement of 37 maltreated children in alternative care. The petition is seen not as a systemic description of the child made by the social worker, but rather as a construction based on the social workers' understandings and interpretations with the aim of shaping court decisions. As such, the article describes a number of meaning-making strategies that social workers employ to construct petitions: (a) constructing the mother as "the problem," (b) constructing the story as one of "no change in sight," (c) constructing out-of-home care as the only solution, with no other alternatives, and (d) minimizing the narrator's personal involvement in the case. Implications for child protection officers are presented.
本研究考察了 19 名以色列社工在涉及安置 37 名受虐待儿童进入替代照料的案件中提出的法庭请愿书。请愿书不是社工对儿童的系统描述，而是基于社工的理解和解释的构建，旨在影响法庭判决。因此，本文描述了社工在构建请愿书中采用的一些意义构建策略：(a) 将母亲构建为“问题”，(b) 将故事构建为“没有变化的迹象”，(c) 将家庭外照顾构建为唯一的解决方案，没有其他选择，以及(d) 尽量减少叙述者在案件中的个人参与。为儿童保护官员提出了相关影响。
