The use of sociograms to explore collaboration in child protection conferences

Jane V. Appleton, Emmanouela Terlektsi and Lindsey Coombes

Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, vol. 35, issue 12, 2140-2146

Abstract: The Strengthening Families child protection conference model attempts to empower parents' participation in conferences and to enhance collaboration between conference participants. This paper, which is part of a broader study looking at the implementation of the Strengthening Families model across a county council in England, UK, explored the use of ‘power’ and ‘mutual interaction’ in both traditional and Strengthening Families child protection conferences. Data was collected using sociograms which were recorded during observations of the two types of conferences. Sociograms were analysed in order to identify patterns in terms of ‘power’ and ‘communication’ together with the use of the ‘group cohesion index’ which enabled us to draw conclusions about the degree of interaction between conference participants.

Keywords: Child protection conference; Collaboration theory; Sociograms; Strengthening Families; Parental involvement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.09.004

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