Selina Steinmann

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

ORCID ID: 0009-0004-5172-5009

Projects

• The problem of noise in child protection / Team member / ongoing

Publications

• Stoll, Dragan; Jud, Andreas; Wehrli, Samuel; Lätsch, David; Steinmann, Selina; Wallimann, Meret Sophie; Quehenberger, Julia,

  2025.

  Case reports unlocked : leveraging retrieval-augmented generation with large language models to advance research on psychological child maltreatment.

  Child Abuse & Neglect.

  169(107653).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107653

• Stoll, Dragan; Jud, Andreas; Wehrli, Samuel; Steinmann, Selina; Wallimann, Meret Sophie; Quehenberger, Julia,

  2025.

  Case reports unlocked : leveraging retrieval-augmented generation with large language models to advance research on child psychological maltreatment[poster].

  In:

  18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.

• Stoll, Dragan; Jud, Andreas; Wehrli, Samuel; Wallimann, Meret Sophie; Steinmann, Selina; Quehenberger, Julia,

  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, Selina; Gautschi, Joel; Quehenberger, Julia,

  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.

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