About
Hilde A. Aamodt is a professor of social work. Her research areas include child welfare investigations, child welfare measures, care orders, contact between children in public care and their parents, and child and family centers.
Aamodt is a qualitative researcher. In her analyses, she makes particular use of systems theory rooted in the work of Niklas Luhmann.
Aamodt is leading three research projects: Care orders from a parental perspective. Contact between children in public care and their parents, and Child and family centers – investigations to help whom?
In 2018, she received OsloMet's Working Environment Award. From 2019 to 2022, she has been editor of the journal Fokus på familien (Focus on the Family).
Aamodt teaches at bachelor's, master's and PhD level.
Field of study
Child care Systems theory Niklas Luhmann
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Parent and child centres
Generating knowledge about assessments at parent and child centres.
Completed research projects
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Care orders from a parental perspective
The main purpose of this study is to develop knowledge about child welfare care orders.
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Decisions on contact between parents and children in child welfare care measures
The main purpose of this study is to develop knowledge on how child welfare employees and County Social Welfare Boards assess and justify the organization and extent of contact between children, siblings and parents after a care measure.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Sommerfeldt, Marianne Buen
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Aamodt, Hilde Anette
(2025).
The Child Welfare Employees’ Constructions of Contact Visits for Parents and Children in Public Care.
Social Sciences.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040206
Aamodt, Hilde Anette
;
Sommerfeldt, Marianne Buen
(2025).
The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway.
Social Sciences.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14030173
Olkowska, Alicja
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Sundnes, Anita
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Aamodt, Hilde Anette
(2025).
Hvordan regulerer diskurser familieterapeutens handlingsrom? Diskursens orden og familieterapi.
Lorås, Lennart; Ness, Ottar (Ed.).
Håndbok i familieterapi (2. utgave).
Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3797717
Aamodt, Hilde Anette
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Sommerfeldt, Marianne Buen
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Stang, Edda
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Steen, Tonje
(2024).
Å måtte «sitte på hendene» når foreldres omsorgskompetanse skal utredes.
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
Vol. 101.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tnb.101.1.5
Aamodt, Hilde Anette
;
Sommerfeldt, Marianne Buen
(2024).
Foreldreskap i transformasjon- forventninger til foreldre i vurderinger av samvær.
Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden.
Vol. 42.
https://doi.org/10.23865/barn.v42.5606
Sommerfeldt, Marianne Buen
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Aamodt, Hilde Anette
(2024).
«Far er fra Syria, men det er ikke sånn strikt»Forståelser av kultur i barnevernstjenestens drøftinger av samværmellom fosterbarn og deres foreldre.
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
Vol. 101.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tnb.101.2.5
Aamodt, Hilde Anette
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Hennum, Nicole
(2024).
The Child Welfare Service’s Ignorance: The Use of Attachment Theory in Norwegian Child Welfare.
Intech Open.
https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1006282
Aamodt, Hilde Anette
(2024).
Relasjonelt arbeid i barneverntjenesten. Om tillit og mistillit.
Lindeman, Sari Kaarina; Lorås, Lennart (Ed.).
Håndbok i relasjonelt arbeid. p. 221-228.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4407854
Hennum, Nicole
;
Aamodt, Hilde Anette
(2024).
Parenting and the State: Constructing Parental Responsibility by Democratic Neoliberal States.
Vale, Helder Ferreira do (Ed.).
Democracy - Paradoxes, Changes and New Perspectives Across the Globe.
IntechOpen.
https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1003700
Lie, Iselin Huseby
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Ulvik, Oddbjørg Skjær
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Aamodt, Hilde Anette
(2024).
Is participation always appropriate? Social workers' perspectives on when to exclude children from conversations about contact visits.
Child & Family Social Work.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13148
