Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventoryShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Child & Family Social Work, ISSN 1356-7500, E-ISSN 1365-2206, Vol. 28, no 1, p. 117-124Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In Swedish child welfare, there are no mandatory guidelines on what interventions to use. Local authorities are able to set their own criteria for implementing or designing interventions. We carried out a survey to identify interventions in use in Children's Social Services and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care in Sweden. A total of 102 interventions were stated to have been in use, with between 31 and 45 different interventions for each of the four different child welfare populations. Of the 102 interventions, 56 were designed outside Sweden and later imported. Only 27 interventions were supported with some kind of research evidence. About half of the interventions targeted the child. Possible implications for practice and research are discussed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2023. Vol. 28, no 1, p. 117-124
Keywords [en]
child and adolescent psychiatric care, child welfare system, children's social services, interventions, adolescent, article, case report, child, child welfare, clinical article, female, human, male, mental health care, practice guideline, social work, Sweden, Swedish citizen
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-58917DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12946ISI: 000823284300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85133785440OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-58917DiVA, id: diva2:1711418
2022-11-172022-11-172023-05-16Bibliographically approved