Selina Steinmann
Selina Steinmann
ZHAW
School of Social Work
Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8037 Zürich
Work at ZHAW
Focus
- Professional Judgment and Decision-Making
- Child Protection
Teaching
- From Early Warning Signs to Mandatory Reporting in Child Protection
- Workshop on Social Work Methods - Face to Face
Experience
- Social Worker
Social Services Zürich
01 / 2023 - 06 / 2024 - Research Associate
OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
08 / 2023 - 01 / 2024 - Social Worker
Child and Youth Services
04 / 2022 - 12 / 2022 - Social Worker
Social Services Zürich
02 / 2019 - 03 / 2022 - Social Worker
Social Services Spreitenbach
09 / 2018 - 01 / 2019 - Social Pedagogy
Ringlikon Residential Home
08 / 2012 - 09 / 2018 - Social Pedagogy Intern
Zentrum Inselhof
08 / 2011 - 07 / 2012
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Master of Science / Social Work
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2019 - 08 / 2022 - Bachelor of Arts / Social Work
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
09 / 2012 - 07 / 2017
Continuing Education
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Child Protection
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2024
Network
Membership of networks
- Child and Youth Public Health Research Competence Network (CYPHER)
- The Decisions, Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group (DARSIG) of the ESWRA
ORCID digital identifier
Projects
- Visual Cards exploring Vulnerability and Well-Being – Engaging in Dialogue with Children and Youth / Team member / ongoing
- The problem of noise in child protection / Team member / ongoing
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Stoll, D. et al. (2026) 'Parental cooperation from Swiss child protection reports : reasoning language models outperform retrieval-augmented generation', Research on Social Work Practice. doi: 10.1177/10497315261446932.
- Stoll, D. et al. (2025) 'Case reports unlocked : leveraging retrieval-augmented generation with large language models to advance research on psychological child maltreatment', Child Abuse & Neglect, 169(107653). doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107653.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Stoll, D. et al. (2025) 'Case reports unlocked : leveraging retrieval-augmented generation with large language models to advance research on child psychological maltreatment', in 18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Drury, I. J. et al. (2026) 'Child protective services screening decisions to provide alternative response : a decision-making view', in Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work (DARE), Zurich, Switzerland, 25-26 June 2026.
- Steinmann, S. and Gautschi, J. (2026) 'Sequential information processing and recency bias in child protection assessments', in Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work (DARE), Zurich, Switzerland, 25-26 June 2026.
- Steinmann, S., Gautschi, J. and Quehenberger, J. (2026) 'Do intensive parenting attitudes explain noise in first-incident decisions in child protection?', in European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 15-17 April 2026.
- Stoll, D. et al. (2025) 'Case reports unlocked : applying RAG-prompting methods and large language models to advance research on child maltreatment', in ISPCAN Congress, Vilnius, Lithuania, 5-9 October 2025.
- Steinmann, S., Gautschi, J. and Quehenberger, J. (2025) 'Intensive parenting and child welfare attitudes in residential care : predicting professionals' reunification', in 18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.