Risk assessment and domestic violence - how do child welfare workers in three countries assess and substantiate the risk level of a 5-year-old girl?

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 424-436

  Skivenes, Marit ^a   Stenberg, Hanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Child protection; Child protection (policy and practice); Child welfare; Domestic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945475860     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12092     Document Type: Article

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