Outing the Elephants: Exploring a New Paradigm for Child Protection Social Work

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Outing the Elephants: Exploring a New Paradigm for Child Protection Social Work

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This article sets out to trouble the psychologised and pathologising approach that has come to dominate child protection practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand and comparable societies. Within a neoliberal ideological frame, Governments deny the need to adjust markets, except in ways that remove protections from workers or specific vulnerable groups. In this context, social work is concerned with adjusting people to the discipline of the market. Within a risk-focused child protection paradigm, circ...

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2018-06-01

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Ian Hyslop / Emily Keddell

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http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/7/105

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child protection / neoliberalism / new paradigm / poverty / inequality / Social Sciences

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