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Dr Alhassan Abdullah

@dr-abdullah.bsky.social

Social Work academic at Charles Sturt University. Research interests| child maltreatment prevention & impacts of communities & culture in child maltreatment.

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Otherwise, there is a risk of normalizing chronic neglect under the guise of cultural commitment. Please take a look at this important piece and pay special attention to our innovative two-stage process for searching and screening articles in systematic reviews.

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Furthermore, the study challenges the uncritical acceptance of cultural norms by arguing that cultural influences on child neglect should be evaluated within the framework of child well-being and the best interests of children.

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Beyond recommending the development of context-specific measures, we also raise critical questions about how child neglect should be assessed in multicultural societies such as Australia and the USA.

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We also examined the disparities between these culturally rooted definitions and the tools used to measure neglectful behavior in research and child protection practice.

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Additionally, the review highlights the influence of gender norms on parental responsibility, kinship lineage norms, and community responsibility for childcare as key cultural underpinnings of child neglect.

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Our findings reveal that child neglect, particularly supervisory neglect, is often framed in collectivist communities as a β€œcollective community failure.”

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We screened over 100,000 research articles globally, using an innovative iterative screening technique, to uncover the cultural norms that shape how child neglect is defined across different communities.

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Child neglect as a culture-based concept: A systematic review and implications for studying and measuring child neglect Child neglect is widely acknowledged as a culture-based concept. The conceptualization, thresholds, and definitions of child neglect are heavily infor…

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I am pleased to share our latest research article on the cultural elements in the conceptualization of child neglect, published in Child Abuse & Neglect (Q1, #4 in Social Work, and Top10% journal).

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Can you add me please

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Can you add me to this list please.

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In case we do, I put together a social work academic Starter Pack. I’m sure I’ve unintentionally omitted folks who are already here, but I’ll keep updating.

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