OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the level of inter-rater reliability of
the Illinois Structured Decision Support Protocol by examining the level of Child Protective …

This qualitative research was designed to evaluate the extent to which a national reform in
Israeli child protection decision making committees was achieving its aim to strengthen …

Results indicate that the SDM system produced significant reductions in important measures
of child maltreatment analyzed over the duration of the study follow-up period. Most …

To understand how decisions are made in abuse/neglect cases by the child welfare system,
the authors asked child welfare experts and protective service line workers to make …

When children come to the attention of the child welfare system, they become involved in a
decision-making process in which decisions are made that have a significant effect on their …

Background Practitioners investigating cases of suspected child maltreatment often disagree
whether a child is subject to or at risk of abuse or neglect in the family and, if so, what to do …

Relying on the Decision-Making Ecology (Baumann, Dalgeish, Fluke, & Kern, 2011) model,
the authors sought to gain insight into the ways in which child protective services (CPS) …

This thesis comprises a comprehensive investigation of professional decision making in the
management of actual or suspected child maltreatment cases via a six-month in situ case …

Child protective service caseworkers must make difficult decisions about the safety of
maltreated children. Decision-making models for helping staff members balance the dual …

The primary purposes of offering continuing services to children and families after reports of
child abuse or neglect have been substantiated by Child Protective Services (CPS) are to …