Main description:

This volume adopts a context-informed framework exploring risk, maltreatment, well-being and protection of children in diverse groups in Israel. It incorporates the findings of seven case studies conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's NEVET Greenhouse of Context-Informed Research and Training for Children in Need. Each case study applies a context-informed approach to the study of perspectives of risk and protection among parents, children and professionals from different communities in Israel, utilizing varied qualitative methodologies. The volume analyses the importance of studying children and parents's perspectives in diverse societies and stresses the need for a context-informed perspective in designing prevention and intervention programs for children at risk and their families living in diverse societies. It further explores potential contribution to theory, research, practice, policy and training in the area of child maltreatment.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Israeli Stage for Context-Informed Perspective on Child Risk and Protection (Dorit Roer-Strier, Yochay Nadan).- Chapter 2. The Evolving Concept of Risk and Israel's Child Policy (Nofar Mazursky, Asher Ben-Arieh).- Chapter 3. Context-Informed Research on Child Risk and Protection: Principles and Challenges (Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Natalie Ulitsa).- Chapter 4. Risk Complexity-Culture and Identity in Migration: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Michal Gatenio-Kalush, Shelly Engdau-Vanda, and Naomi Shmuel).- Chapter 5. Seeing Eye to Eye? Perception of Risk and Protection of Social Workers and Parents Regarding Children of Ethiopian Origin (Shelly Engdau-Vanda, Michal Gatenio-Kalush, and Bat-Hen Karni).- Chapter 6. Parental and Professional Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Community (Rivka Keesing, Netanel Gemara, and Mani Pollak).- Chapter 7. Many Children, Many Risks? Listening to the Voices of Families with Many Children from the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Community in Israel (Hannah Bartl, Heidi Keller, Natali Zohar, and Nira Wahle).- Chapter 8. Perceptions of Risk and Protection among French Immigrant Mothers in Israel (Noemie Bloomberg, Yan Serdtse, and Dorit Roer-Strier).- Chapter 9. Parental and Professional Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Naqab: An Intersectionality-Informed Approach (Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan and Galit Meir).- Chapter 10. Child Risk and Protection: Perceptions of One-and-a-Half Generation Immigrant Parents from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli Social Workers (Natalie Ulitsa, Lital Yona, Anna Gogonsky, and Dorit Roer-Strier).- Chapter 11. Challenging Social Workers' Envisioned Definitions of Child Neglect: Perspectives of Mothers Living in an Impoverished Neighborhood (Lital Yona).- Chapter 12. "Permanent Temporariness:" Eritrean Refugees and Social Workers' Perceptions of Israeli Policies and Their Implications for Family Well-Being (Lior Birger).- Chapter 13. Children's Rights, Protection and Access to Justice: The Case of Palestinian Children in East Jerusalem (Bella Kovner).-Chapter 14. Young Children's Perspectives of Risk and Protection (Yael Ponizovsky-Bergelson, Yael Dayan, Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Dorit Roer-Strier, and Nira Wahle).- Chapter 15. Disclosing Sexual Abuse in Religious Communities in Israel: Lessons Learned by the Research Group on Child Sexual Abuse (Dafna Tener, Amitai Marmor, Efrat Lusky Weisrose, Aya Almog-Zaken, Tsofnat Melamed Filtser, and Shosh Turjeman).- Chapter 16. An Ultra-Orthodox Researcher: Oxymoron or Opportunity? A Typology of Appearances of Conflicting Identities of an Insider Researcher (Netanel Gemara).- Chapter 17. A Context-Informed Approach to the Study of Child Risk and Protection: Lessons Learned and Future Directions (Yochay Nadan and Dorit Roer-Strier).