@article{ref1,
title="Affect and Emotion in a Parent's Engagement with Statutory Child-Protection Services: Navigating Stigma and 'Identity Assault'",
journal="British journal of social work",
year="2019",
author="Quick, Don and Scott, Anne L.",
volume="49",
number="2",
pages="485-502",
abstract="How might we understand the emotional processes that generate desperate anger and resistance by parents facing child-protection investigations? In this paper, we draw on the sociology of affect and emotion to analyse one parent's story of a child-protection enquiry, the removal of her son and the subsequent family reunification. Using a methodological process of 'productive disconcertion', which draws on similar theories of affect and emotion to those we are using in the analysis, we argue that statutory child-welfare services operate within an emotional regime in which parents of clients are positioned as passive and required to be co-operative. Responses such as intense parental anger can generate an interactive cycle of deepening conflict with child-protection workers, but can also be protective for the parent, supporting the individual's sense of agency and a positive identity. Practitioners should seek to work with, rather than in opposition to, such parents, thus enabling the parent to be successful is his or her attempts to move beyond a cycle of traumatisation, stigma and re-traumatisation.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0045-3102",
doi="10.1093/bjsw/bcy055",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy055"
}