@inbook{1497b4673498402d8745f8673a0c2974,
title = "The Social Construction of Disclosure: The Case of Child Abuse in Israeli Society",
abstract = "Based on 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with professionals, including law-enforcement personnel, educators, and mental health and health-care professionals, this chapter presents a study that describes and analyzes an insider{\textquoteright}s view of the ways in which child abuse professionals perceive and understand the disclosure of violence. We found that disclosure is a function of social processes related to the values, ideologies, ways of thinking, and interests of the various social agents involved in the process. Thus, disclosure is not an objective fact-finding process and the subsequent assignment of visibility and proper societal reaction, but rather a social construction.",
keywords = "Child abuse, Child protection, Decision-making, Disclosure, Professionals, Psychology of reporting, Reporting, Values",
author = "Zvi Eisikovits and Jonathan Davidov and Laura Sigad and Rachel Lev-Wiesel",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_19",
language = "English",
series = "Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "395--413",
booktitle = "Child Maltreatment",
address = "United States",
}
