Mentoring the development reflective practice in decision-making

Decision-making is increasingly required to be made through a paperwork process of completing forms and following procedural manuals. The research examined decision-making in child protection as a way of understanding more about how social workers were integrating their objective, procedural knowledge with their reflective, experiential knowledge (Stokes, 2009). The research methodology was the factorial survey method in which a vignette was designed to reflect an everyday child protection situation.