@article{ref1,
title=""I was alone. No one offered me a real intervention": Israeli child protection services as experienced by adults who underwent child sexual abuse",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="2023",
author="Glucklich, Talia and Attrash-Najjar, Afnan and Katz, Carmit",
volume="146",
number="",
pages="e106509-e106509",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Many children worldwide come into contact with child protection social workers (CPSW) following child sexual abuse (CSA). Surprisingly, little is known concerning how they experience and perceive these encounters. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: The current study was designed to examine the way adults who underwent CSA experienced and perceived child protection services (CPS) in Israel as conveyed in their written testimonies. <br><br>METHOD: The current sample included 83 written testimonies sent to the Israeli Independent Public Inquiry on CSA, analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. <br><br>RESULTS: The participants' testimonies uncovered two main themes: 1) experiences with CPSW interventions, including being disregarded, abandoned and disbelieved; and 2) constructions of the CPSW practice as poor, maladapted and abusive. Some participants described their active efforts to change the system from within. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The participants' testimonies, which reflected the negative manifestations of neoliberal policy in the CPS, will be broached in the discussion section, alongside two other significant concepts: child participation and a context-informed perspective of child risk and protection. The ramifications for policy and practice will be expanded while acknowledging the complex role of social workers in CPS.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106509",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106509"
}