Professor Maria Eriksson
Professor of Social Work, Marie Cederschiöld University, Sweden
Email: maria.eriksson@mchs.se
Profile
Ongoing research includes the six-year research programme "Coordinated Interventions against Violence in Close Relationships" SIVIN Child, including e.g. development of assessments of risk and safety when children are exposed to or subjected to violence in their family. I am also coordinating a Nordic research network and protection of and support to children exposed to intimate partner violence. Previous projects include, e.g. research on how the Swedish framework for assessment BBIC ”BBIC – Barns Behov I Centrum” [Children’s needs in the centre] is used in cases of intimate partner violence, “Cooperation teams" – a model for prevention of conflicts between parents who do not live together, and a model for informing children about their rights BRA – Children’s Rights as Next of Kin.
Research
Publications
(Selection)
Landberg, Åsa, Kaldal, Anna & Eriksson, Maria (2025). Fighting for opportunities for protection and recovery after child sexual abuse, Children and Youth Services Review, 169, 108104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108104
Wollter, F. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Emergency risk assessments in child welfare services: Developing structured support to professional assessments, Child & Family Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13195
Eriksson, Maria (2024) Enabling Children’s Participation: Putting the “Good Dialogues” Model into Practice. Children & Society 38:334–348 DOI:10.1111/chso.12702
Sarkadi, Anna, Thell, Maria, Fängström, Karin, Dahlberg, Anton, Fäldt, Anna, Pérez Aronsson, Anna, Warner, Georgina, Eriksson, Maria (2023) "Are we ready to really hear the voices of those concerned?" Lessons learned from listening to and involving children in child and family psychology research, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, https://rdcu.be/dlZFB
Kassman, A., Wollter, F., Eriksson, M. (2023) The selective child welfare funnel. Children's exposure to violence and CWS investigations in Sweden, Child Abuse & Neglect 144: 106356, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106356.
Landberg, Å., Kaldal, A., Eriksson, M. (2023) Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse, Children & Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12710
Eriksson, Maria & Näsman, Elisabet (2012). Interviews with children exposed to violence, Children & Society, 26 (1), 63-73 (DOI:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00322.x)
Eriksson, Maria (2011). Contact, Shared Parenting, and Violence. Children as Witnesses of Domestic Violence in Sweden, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 25 (2), 165-183.
Eriksson, Maria (2010). Justice or welfare? Nordic women’s shelters and children’s rights organizations on children exposed to violence, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 11 (1), 66-85.
Eriksson, Maria (2009) Girls and boys as victims: social workers’ approaches to children exposed to violence, Child Abuse Review, 18 (6), 428-445.
Eriksson, Maria & Näsman, Elisabet (2008). Participation in family law proceedings for children whose father is violent to their mother, Childhood, 15 (2), 259-275.