Decision Making And Judgment In Child Welfare And Protection

Author : Donald J. Baumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190059538

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Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection by Donald J. Baumann Pdf

"Professionals working in child welfare and child protection are making decisions with crucial implications for children and families on a daily basis. The types of judgements and decisions they make vary and include decisions such as whether to substantiate a child abuse allegation, whether a child is at risk of significant harm by parents, and whether to remove a child from home or to reunify a child with parents after some time in care. These decisions are intended to help achieve the best interests of the child. Unfortunately, they can sometimes also doom children and families unnecessarily to many years of pain and suffering. Judgments and decisions in child welfare and protection are based to a large extent on the formidable knowledge base on child abuse and neglect created over the years to support this professional task chore. Nevertheless, making decisions in complex and uncertain environments is fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings. There are in fact many indications that decisions in this area are not reliable and there are many errors in judgment that could be avoided, had the decision makers relied on existing knowledge on decision making under uncertainty and followed appropriate procedures. Much needs to be improved on how these decisions are made by individual professionals and child welfare agencies"--

Author : T.J. Stein,T.L. Rzepnicki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400956483

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Decision Making in Child Welfare Services by T.J. Stein,T.L. Rzepnicki Pdf

All countries confront the problem of providing for dependent, neglected, and 1 abused children. While the exact form of institutional response will differ in relation to a country's political and economic structure, its culture and its tradition, the same general kinds of child welfare services have been developed 2 everywhere. Literature from the United States, Canada, and several Western European countries reflects a shared concern about children who reside in unplanned, substitute care arrangements and a growing recognition of the importance of 3 making permanent plans for these children. The American response to this problem took shape in the early 1970s when government at the local, state, and 4 federal levels undertook to fund permanency planning projects. Permanency planning projects were charged with developing and testing procedures that would increase the likelihood that children would move out of substitute care arrangements into permanent family homes either through restoration to their biological families, termination of parental rights and subsequent adoption, court appointment of a legal guardian, or planned emancipation for older children. Long-term foster care, if it was a planned outcome supported by the use of written agreements between foster parents and child care agencies, was recognized as an appropriate option for some children. 2 DECISION MAKING IN CHILD WELFARE Permanency planning projects have had a direct effect on the substantive aspects of social work practice in child welfare.

Author : Rosemary Sheehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351782678

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Magistrates' Decision-Making in Child Protection Cases by Rosemary Sheehan Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Making decisions about the care and protection of children who appear before the courts is complex. Attention must be paid to the best interests of the child, the child’s need for their family, community views on parenting, and concern about welfare intrusion into family life. Magistrates have a unique authority to make, or reject child protection orders - yet the criteria they use to decide a protection order, how they understand the information presented to them in court and the factors that influence their discretion and decision-making have, until now, been little known. Presenting the findings of a study undertaken at Melbourne Children’s Court, this book offers a much-needed investigation of how magistrates actually make child protection decisions. Case examples highlight this decision-making and the book thus offers practical assistance to professionals working with children in the legal process.

Author : Brian Taylor,Andrew Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780429602849

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Professional Judgement and Decision Making in Social Work by Brian Taylor,Andrew Whittaker Pdf

Professional judgement and decision making are central to social work, both in everyday professional practice and in public perceptions of social work as a profession. This book examines key issues that are relevant today. The chapters cover child protection, mental health, and elder care settings in Europe, Australia and Canada. They discuss organisational and cultural contexts for professional judgement; the role of experience in the development of expertise and professional discretion; understanding variability in decision making; and the role of legal frameworks in decision making. This book will enable practitioners, managers, policy makers, and researchers to appreciate the complexities of professional judgement and decision making in different social work settings and to apply this understanding to their own practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice. The book is linked to sister text Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues, which examines key debates around the understanding of risk in contemporary social work practice.

Author : Kenneth Burns,Tarja Pösö,Marit Skivenes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190459567

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Child Welfare Removals by the State by Kenneth Burns,Tarja Pösö,Marit Skivenes Pdf

Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Child welfare removals by the state / complex and controversial decisions / Kenneth Burns, Tarja Poso and Marit Skivenes -- Removals of children in Finland: a mix of voluntary and involuntary decisions / Tarja Poso and Raija Huhtanen -- Norway : child welfare decision-making in cases of removals of children / Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig -- Placing children in state care in Sweden : decision-making bodies, laypersons and legal framework / Gustav Svensson and Staffan Højer -- Removing children from their families due to child protection in Germany / Monika Haug and Theresia Høynck -- Child removal proceedings in Switzerland / Stefan Schnurr -- Child removal decision-making systems in Ireland : law, policy and practice / Kenneth Burns, Conor O'Mahony, Caroline Shore and Aisling Parkes -- State intervention in family life in England : safeguarding children through care proceedings and adoption / Karen Broadhurst -- How children are removed from home in the United States / Katrin Kriz, Janese Free and Grant Kuehl -- Removals of children by the child welfare system / variations and differences across countries / Kenneth Burns, Tarja Poso and Marit Skivenes -- Index

Author : Theodore J. Stein,Tina L. Rzepnicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016187034

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Decision Making at Child Welfare Intake by Theodore J. Stein,Tina L. Rzepnicki Pdf

Author : Richard D. Krugman,Jill E. Korbin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030824792

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Handbook of Child Maltreatment by Richard D. Krugman,Jill E. Korbin Pdf

The second edition of this successful handbook, edited by well-known experts in this field, includes core questions in the field of child abuse and neglect. It addresses major challenges in child maltreatment work, starting with “What is child abuse and neglect?” and then examines why maltreatment occurs and what are its consequences. The handbook also addresses prevention, intervention, investigation, treatment as well as civil and criminal legal perspectives. It comprehensively studies the issue from the perspective of a broader, international and cross-cultural human experience. Apart from a thorough revision of existing chapters, this edition includes many new chapters covering recent developments in this area and other issues not covered in the first edition. There is more focus on substance abuse, psychological abuse, and on social and community involvement and public health provisions in the prevention of child maltreatment. The handbook examines what is known now and more importantly what remains to be researched in the coming decades to help abused and neglected children, their families and their communities, thereby taking the field forward.

Author : Elizabeth Isaacs,Carmel Shepherd
Publisher : Family Law Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 1846612543

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Social Work Decision-making by Elizabeth Isaacs,Carmel Shepherd Pdf

Social workers working with children and families are required to make complex and difficult decisions on a daily basis, which often result in court proceedings. This book is a comprehensive guide for childcare lawyers and other professionals in the UK seeking to understand the policies and procedures involved in social work practice. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to take account of all recent UK developments, including the reissued Public Law Outline, the revised 'Working Together to Safeguard Children' (March 2010), new UK case law in respect of section 5 social work records and local authority duties, guidance relating to the Integrated Children's System (ICS), and new guidance for secure accommodation provision. Contents include: the legal framework * why do lawyers need to know about social work? * the referral to the local authority * the local authority response - the s47 investigation * the assessment process * child protection planning * the local authority's duties towards looked-after children * fostering * adoption and permanency * leaving care * how to analyze the local authority's decision-making process

Author : Michael J. Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317993308

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Evidence for Child Welfare Practice by Michael J. Austin Pdf

This book provides a "work-in-progress" that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare. It is divided into two categories; namely, evidence for direct practice and evidence for management practice. In Part I, the articles are categorized in the areas of child welfare assessment and child welfare outcomes. Expanded versions of the chapters can be accessed at www.bassc.net. In Part II, the focus is on organizational issues that relate to evidence for management practice. This section includes an overview of evidence-based practice from an organizational perspective along with evidence related to the experiences of others in implementing evidence-based practice. This book pushes the discussion of evidence-based practice in several new directions regarding: 1) the use of structured reviews to complement the systematic reviews of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaboratives, 2) the process of viewing the call for evidence-based practice as a goal or future vision of practice and evidence for practice provides a more immediate approach to promote evidence-informed practice, and 3) a recognition that evidence-informed practice is part of building agency-based knowledge sharing systems that involve the tacit and explicit knowledge needed to improve the outcomes of social services. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal Of Evidence-Based Social Work.

Author : Kathleen Kufeldt
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889207394

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Child Welfare by Kathleen Kufeldt Pdf

In 1994 a group of researchers and decision makers met to discuss the state of child welfare. Also present were a few practitioners and two youth in care. Six years later, when they met again, the number of practitioners and youth had grown considerably and were joined by a strong contingent of foster parents. Thus the findings and insights presented were affirmed or challenged by those most affected -- those on the front line. It was an exciting event, worth capturing in book form. Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie have gathered the papers presented at the 2000 Symposium and have organised them under four themes: incidence and characteristics of child maltreatment; the continuum of care; policy and practice; and future directions. An analysis and synthesis of the work informs each of these themes, while an eight-point research agenda developed in an earlier symposium is used to assess developments to date and provide guidance for the future.

Author : Jill E. Korbin,Richard D. Krugman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400772083

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Handbook of Child Maltreatment by Jill E. Korbin,Richard D. Krugman Pdf

This Handbook examines core questions still remaining in the field of child maltreatment. It addresses major challenges in child maltreatment work, starting with the question of what child abuse and neglect is exactly. It then goes on to examine why maltreatment occurs and what its consequences are. Next, it turns to prevention, treatment and intervention, as well as legal perspectives. The book studies the issue from the perspective of the broader international and cross-cultural human experience. Its aim is to review what is known, but even more importantly, to examine what remains to be known to make progress in helping abused children, their families, and their communities.

Author : Alan J. Dettlaff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030543143

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Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System by Alan J. Dettlaff Pdf

This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child welfare. It offers a central source of information for students and practitioners who are seeking understanding on how structural and institutional racism can be addressed in public systems.

Author : Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 9783319948003

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Human Rights in Child Protection by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen Pdf

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter author seeks to approach the rights of the child from their own academic field of interest and through a comparative lens, making the research relevant across nation-state practices. The book is split into five parts to focus on the most important aspects of child protection. The first part explains the origins, aim, and scope of the book; the second part explores aspects of professionalism and organization through law and policy; and the third part discusses several key issues in child protection and professional practice in depth. The fourth part discusses selected areas of importance to child protection practices (low-impact in-house measures, public care in residential care and foster care respectively) and the fifth part provides an analytical summary of the book. Overall, it contributes to the present need for a more comprehensive academic debate regarding the rights of the child, and the supranational perspective this brings to child protection policy and practice across and within nation-states. .

Author : Radha Jagannathan,Michael J. Camasso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195176964

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Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage by Radha Jagannathan,Michael J. Camasso Pdf

Professionals in the Child Welfare System will find this book to be a radically different explanation on protecting children from harm. Child maltreatment remains front and center in the collective consciousness of communities around the United States, this book is a depiction of current events of social outrage.

Author : Gillian Schofield,June Thoburn,Gillian Thoburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : 1860300286

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Child Protection by Gillian Schofield,June Thoburn,Gillian Thoburn Pdf