%0 Journal Article
%T PARTICIPATION OF PARENTS IN THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM
%A £¿anderov¨¢ Lucie
%J Aktu¨¢ln¨ª Ot¨¢zky Soci¨¢ln¨ª Politiky : Teorie a Praxe
%D 2012
%I University of Pardubice
%X This article explores the ways in which parents perceives, experience and negotiate participation in and interventions of child protection system. Based on review of qualitative studies focused on parents¡¯ views, it shows the importance of worker-parent relationship and system-parent approach. The ways how parents perceive workers and themselves in different moments of child protection processes isshown to be the primary influence shaping parents¡¯ reactions to interventions(including decision not to cooperate).Parents who experienced helpful, participative, respectful and relatively fair interventions tended to cooperate with child protection workers. As a result positive engagement of parents in child protection system isproposed.
%K Participation
%K Parents
%K Child protection system
%K Child welfare.
%U http://aosp.upce.cz/article/view/149/110