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Dr Alhassan Abdullah

@dr-abdullah.bsky.social
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Social Work academic at Charles Sturt University. Research interests| child maltreatment prevention & impacts of communities & culture in child maltreatment.

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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our findings reveal that child neglect, particularly supervisory neglect, is often framed in collectivist communities as a “collective community failure.”
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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🥇 New Publication 🥇 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). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Can you add me please
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Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Can you add me to this list please.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
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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