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dc.contributor.advisorDaniel, Brigid-
dc.contributor.advisorMcIntosh, Ian-
dc.contributor.authorHelm, Duncan-
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-27T08:18:17Z-
dc.date.available2017-10-27T08:18:17Z-
dc.date.issued2017-03-
dc.identifier.citationHelm, D. (2011) Judgements or Assumptions? The Role of Analysis in Assessing Children and Young People's Needs. British Journal of Social Work. 41,5, pp894–911en_GB
dc.identifier.citationHelm, D. and Roesch-Marsh, A. (2017) The Ecology of Judgement: A Model for Understanding and Improving Social Work Judgements. British Journal of Social Work. 47, 5, pp1361-1376en_GB
dc.identifier.citationHelm, D. (2013) Sense-making in a social work office: an ethnographic study of safeguarding judgements. Child and Family Social Work. 21, 1, pp26-35en_GB
dc.identifier.citationHelm, D. (2017) Can I have a word? Social Worker Interaction and Sense-Making. Child Abuse Review 26, 5, pp388-398en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/26046-
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is submitted for the award of PhD by publication. It comprises four interconnected, published research papers linked by a contextualising narrative. The publications are all peer-reviewed research articles published between 2012 and 2017 in relevant UK journals. I am the sole author of three of the papers and first author of one paper. My thesis considers how social workers make sense of complex and uncertain information in child welfare and protection social work. My first paper considers the how an understanding of human judgement and sense-making can influence social worker's capacity of child-focused thinking. My synthesis of the literature indicated that social workers' styles of judgement are strongly bounded or influenced by external factors such as complexity of information and time available to make decisions. It is this "bounded" model of rationality which I have employed to provide the theoretical and conceptual framework for this thesis. I have included two papers exploring data which I collected in a non-participatory ethnographic study of social workers' sense-making in a local authority children and families team. These papers represent a valuable contribution to current understandings of social work sense-making. This naturalistic study identified a number of key themes and processes in sense-making which are directly relevant to developing and maintaining best practice. The final paper was developed over the period of my PhD studies. The paper builds on existing research and develops theories of bounded rationality into a conceptual model which I have referred to as an "Ecology of Judgement" for child welfare and protection social work. By modelling the complex interplay between the mind of the social worker and the information environment in which they are operating the model has utility in practice development and research.en_GB
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dc.publisherUniversity of Stirlingen_GB
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dc.subjectSocial worken_GB
dc.subjectChild Welfareen_GB
dc.subjectChild Protectionen_GB
dc.subjectJudgementen_GB
dc.subjectDecision makingen_GB
dc.subjectAnalysisen_GB
dc.subjectEthnographyen_GB
dc.subjectSense-makngen_GB
dc.subjectRationalityen_GB
dc.subjectCognitive continuumen_GB
dc.subject.lcshChild welfareen_GB
dc.subject.lcshSocial work with childrenen_GB
dc.subject.lcshDecision makingen_GB
dc.titleAn ecology of judgement: Sense-making in child welfare and protection social worken_GB
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophyen_GB
dc.rights.embargodate2999-12-31-
dc.rights.embargoreason[Paper 1 - Judgements or assumptions] The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository therefore there is an embargo on the full text of the work.en_GB
dc.rights.embargoreason[Paper 2 - Ecology of Judgement] The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository therefore there is an embargo on the full text of the work.en_GB
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dc.author.emailduncan.helm@stir.ac.uken_GB
dc.rights.embargoterms2999-12-31-
dc.rights.embargoliftdate2999-12-31-
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