Bilde av Vis, Svein Arild
Bilde av Vis, Svein Arild
Forskningsgruppe for barne- og familievern svein.arild.vis@uit.no +4777623275 +47 45467979 Tromsø You can find me here

Svein Arild Vis


Job description

Professor innenfor fagområdene barnevern og barn og unges psykiske helse med særlig fokus på:

  • Systematikk og metodikk i barnevernsarbeid
  • Psykisk helse som faktor i barnevern- og familievernsarbeid
  • Beslutningsprosesser og barns deltakelse 

  • Camilla, Charlotte, Svein Arild :
    General Counselling and Evidence-Based Interventions in Norwegian Child Welfare and Protection Services: A Study of Practices and Perceptions
    Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 03. September 2025 DOI
  • Kirsten Buck, Camilla, Karen J Skaale, Sturla, Øivin, Svein Arild Myhra :
    Families refusing assistance from the Norwegian child welfare services – The importance of family characteristics, case processing and identified problems.
    Children and Youth Services Review 2025 DOI
  • Kirsten Buck, Camilla, Karen J Skaale, Sturla, Øivin, Svein Arild Myhra :
    Families refusing assistance from the Norwegian child welfare Services- the importance of family characteristics, case processing and identified problems
    Children and Youth Services Review 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kristel Høie, Camilla, Svein Arild, Anita, Bjørn Helge :
    Changes in Intention to Quit Among Child Welfare and Protection Workers in Norway - How Does Time and Mentoring Affect Intention?
    Human service organizations, management, leadership & governance 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Marie, Sabine, Svein Arild, Sturla :
    What Influences Discharge from Locked Residential Care One Year After Admission?
    Residential Treatment for Children & Youth 2025 DOI
  • Svein Arild Myhra, Camilla :
    What Is the Outcome When Schools Report Concern for a Child to the Norwegian Child Welfare and Protection Services?
    Child Abuse Review http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-0852 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Oda Martine Steinsdatter, Johanna, Svein Arild Myhra, Mette Bech :
    ‘There’s a will, but not a way’: Norwegian GPs’ experiences of collaboration with child welfare services – a grounded theory study
    BMC Primary Care 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kristel Høie, Camilla, Svein Arild Myhra, Anita :
    How ‘the System’ Affects job Satisfaction and Intention to Stay or Leave—A Qualitative Study Among Child Welfare and Protection Workers in Norway
    Child & Family Social Work 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Mette Bech, Svein Arild, Johanna :
    ‘There’s a will, but not a way’: Norwegian GPs’ experiences of collaboration with child welfare services – a grounded theory study.
    BMC Primary Care 2024 DOI
  • Kirsten Buck, Camilla, Karen J Skaale, Sturla, Øivin, Svein Arild Myhra :
    The impact of case characteristics on child welfare service investigations in Norway
    Nordic Social Work Research 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Hervor Alma, Guðrún, Sissel, Svein Arild Myhra :
    Challenges for researchers when getting access to children and young people and their consent in research. A scoping review
    Nordic Social Work Research 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Svein Arild, Camilla, John, Karen J Skaale, Øivin, Sturla :
    Service Provision by Child Protection Services — Exploring Variability at Case and Agency Levels in a Norwegian Sample
    International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kristel Høie, Camilla, Svein Arild, Anita :
    Factors affecting child welfare and protection workers' intention to quit: a cross-sectional study from Norway
    Human Resources for Health 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Astrid, Svein Arild Myhra :
    Barnets deltakelse i beslutningene
    2023
  • Kjell Morten, Svein Arild :
    Måleegenskaper ved den norske versjonen av Crowell-prosedyren
    PsykTestBarn 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Svein Arild, Camilla, Karen J Skaale, Charlotte, Bjørn Helge :
    Concerns of Parental Substance Abuse and Mental Health Problems Reported to Child Welfare Services—Testing a Moderated Mediation Model for Paths From Reports to Substantiated Concern and Service Provision
    Frontiers in Psychiatry 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kirsten Buck, Camilla, Karen J Skaale, Sturla, Øivin, Svein Arild :
    The impact of case factors on the initial screening decision in child welfare investigations in Norway
    International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Svein Arild, Tonje, Camilla :
    Norwegian School Children’s Perceptions of the Child Protection Services
    Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Svein Arild, Camilla, Øivin, Charlotte :
    Do the child welfare and protection services involve children in cases with parental mental health problems? A Norwegian case-file study.
    Frontiers in Psychiatry 07. Januar 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Karen J Skaale, Sturla, Camilla, Svein Arild :
    How does the Kvello assessment framework attend to important dimensions of the children’s needs and welfare? A comparison with the BBIC and the ICS frameworks for child welfare investigations
    Nordic Social Work Research 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Svein Arild, Camilla, John :
    Screening decisions for non-abuse concerns reported to child protection agencies- a structural equation model for referral content and decision outcome
    Children and Youth Services Review 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Marie, Geraldine Danielle Yolande, Sabine, Sturla, Svein Arild :
    Mapping Pathways of Pre-Placement Processes in Child Welfare in Norway: Insights from a Latent Class Analysis
    17. Oktober 2025
  • Svein Arild, Kirsten Buck, John :
    Setting the table: Consepts and Methods for Cross - National Comparisons of Child Maltreatment Administrative Data Part I & II
    08. Oktober 2025
  • Svein Arild, Kirsten Buck :
    Increased differentiation in child protection investigations - what can be learned from the study of recurrence risk?
    10. September 2025
  • Marie, Geraldine Danielle Yolande, Sabine, Sturla, Svein Arild :
    Mapping pathways of pre-placement processes in child welfare in Norway: Insights from latent class analysis
    11. September 2025
  • Marie, Sabine, Svein Arild, Sturla :
    What influences discharge from locked residential care one year after admission?
    10. September 2025
  • Svein Arild Myhra, John, Øivin, Karen J Skaale, Camilla, Anette Christine :
    The mediating effects of physical child abuse allegations upon decision to provide child protection services.
    2024
  • Svein Arild Myhra, Camilla :
    The impact of Covid restrictions upon youth in contact with Child Protection Services
    2023
  • Svein Arild :
    Individual indicators for outcome in child protection
    2023
  • Svein Arild :
    Agency level indicators for outcome in social work
    2023
  • Svein Arild :
    Legislation and best practices relating to participation in the context of child protection
    2023
  • Marie, Sabine, Svein Arild Myhra, Sturla :
    Adolescents treated in child welfare locked institutions: Who commit's drug related crimes and who does not?
    2023
  • Svein Arild, Camilla :
    The relationship between child welfare and protection services and schools
    2023
  • Svein Arild :
    Service provision following a child protection investigation - do we need to worry about agency differences?
    2023
  • Kirsten Buck, Svein Arild Myhra, Camilla, Sturla, Øivin, Karen J Skaale :
    Families refusing service provision from child welfare service
    2023
  • Svein Arild :
    Changes in reporting patterns to child welfare and protection services in the Nordic countries following Covid 19 
    2022
  • Svein Arild :
    Directions for Administrative Data
    2022
  • Svein Arild :
    Hva skal til for å sikre god kvalitet i barnevernets meldings og undersøkelsesarbeid
    2021
  • Svein Arild :
    Samvær etter omsorgsovertagelse
    2021
  • Svein Arild :
    Barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid - fra bekymring til beslutning
    2021
  • Svein Arild :
    Journaler som datamateriale i forskning
    2021
  • Kirsten Buck, Øivin, Svein Arild, Camilla, Sturla :
    Hva påvirker beslutningen om å undersøke en bekymringsmelding. En studie på hvordan saksfaktorer påvirker beslutninger hos barneverntjenesten
    2021
  • Svein Arild :
    What determines children's influence in child protection investigations?
    2021
  • Svein Arild :
    Barnevernundersøkelser i Tromsø kommune
    2021
  • Mariann Schjølberg, Svein Arild, Camilla :
    Her er forskernes nye anbefalinger til barnevernet
    22. Oktober 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Svein Arild, Øivin, Karen J Skaale, Camilla, Anette Christine, Torill :
    Barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid- fra bekymring til beslutning. Samlede resultater og anbefalinger
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / SAMMENDRAG / OMTALE
  • Svein Arild :
    Child protection investigations in Norway - results from a 5 year collaborative study
    2020
  • Svein Arild :
    Er det behov for ny barnevernlov
    2020
  • Svein Arild :
    Barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid - lokal utviklingstrekk
    2020
  • Karen J Skaale, Øivin, Eirinn Hesvik, Camilla, Veronika, Frederikke et al.:
    Å medvirke når barnevernet undersøker. Delrapport 5. Barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid fra bekymring til beslutning.
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST

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    Publikasjoner utenom Cristin

     De utrolige årene - program for foreldre barn og lærere. Video VHS - 15 min. Universitetet i Tromsø. Medisinsk fakultet, AV-Avdelingen

     Barne og likestillingsdepartementet (2009) Snakk med meg. Samtaler med barn i barnevernet. DVD.  


    Research interests

    Barnevernets meldings og undersøkelsesarbeid

    Virkning av hjelpetiltak og omsorgstiltak i barnevernet

    Barnevernets beslutningsprosesser

    Bruk av administrative data i ledelse og kvalitetsutvikling

     

     

     

    Teaching

    Beslutninger i barnevernet

    Undersøkelser og tiltak i barnevernet

    Metodiske barnesamtaler

    Barns deltakelse

     





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