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Common errors of reasoning in child protection work.

Eileen Munro
- 01 Aug 1999 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 8, pp 745-758
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Errors in professional reasoning in child protection work are not random but predictable on the basis of research on how people intuitively simplify reasoning processes in making complex judgements, which can be reduced if people are aware of them and strive consciously to avoid them.
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This article is published in Child Abuse & Neglect.The article was published on 1999-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 356 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child abuse & Child protection.

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Child Protection Practitioners and Decision-Making Tools: Observations and Reflections from the Front Line

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- 01 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: Ethnographic research that explored how child protection practitioners in the Department of Child Safety, Queensland, Australia, used four Structured Decision Making tools developed by the Children’s Research Centre in Wisconsin in their daily practice in the intake and investigation stages of a case finds that the tools were not being used as intended by their designers.
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Learning to Reduce Risk in Child Protection

Eileen Munro
- 01 Jun 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current strategies to manage risk in child protection are paradoxically making it harder for professionals to learn how to protect children better, and they identify three factors that promote a culture in which professional practice is being excessively controlled and proceduralised: the person-centred approach to investigating child deaths, the blame culture and the performance management system.
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‘Like a fish in a bowl’: parents' perceptions of child protection services

Peter Dale
- 01 Mar 2004 - 
TL;DR: Findings were mixed in relation to perceived helpfulness of the processes of child protection interventions, with 50% of families reporting some positive benefit and 22% reporting that such interventions had caused them harm.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn, +1 more
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

Amos Tversky, +1 more
TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

Glenn Shafer, +3 more
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TL;DR: Three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty are described: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, which is often employed when people are asked to assess the frequency of a class or the plausibility of a particular development.
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Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

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Frequently Asked Questions (5)
Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "Common errors of reasoning in child protection work" ?

This study is based on the hypothesis that the recurrent errors may be explicable as examples of the typical errors of human reasoning identified by psychological research. Methods: the sample comprised all child abuse inquiry reports published in Britain between 1973 and 1994 ( forty-five in total ). Using a content analysis and a framework derived from psychological research on reasoning, a study was made of the reasoning of the professionals involved and the findings of the inquiries. The evidence was also often faulty, due, in the main, to biased or dishonest reporting or errors in communication. 

The crucial element in strategies to counteract bias is that they involve considering alternative perspectives (Plous, 1993, p.256). 

Current strategies to help practitioners generally involve checklists and guidelines that give equal emphasis to all areas of information. 

Efforts to improve practice tend to take an analytic form, e..g. thedevelopment of risk assessment instruments, checklists and guidelines. 

Because of its fallibility, however, adapting Hammond’s example of science, intuitive judgements should be treated as hypotheses that are then tested in a more rigorous and systematic way.