Maria Luisa Raineri

Ethical issues innervate the entire research process and, consequently, they have implications for the whole research’s methodological framework itself. In Italy, Social Work research has a relatively recent history. It is therefore important that the ethical issue is not left behind in the process of focusing and developing research methods appropriate to social work. In this article, some basic historical references for social work research are proposed and the main formal rules about it are summarized...

Families’ participation in child protection is a challenge both in its theoretical interpretation and practice implementation. When social workers have to protect children from their own family, they must reflect on how to guarantee the exercise of parents and children’s rights and duties. After a brief outline of research on parents and children’s participation in Child Protection, this paper presents results from quantitative research. Social workers are asked to define the concept of participation...