Decision Making In Child Welfare Services

Author : Donald J. Baumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : 52,7 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 : Kenneth Burns,Tarja Pösö,Marit Skivenes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : 53,9 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 : Rosemary Sheehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Malcolm Hill,Jane Aldgate
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853023167

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Child Welfare Services by Malcolm Hill,Jane Aldgate Pdf

The contributors to this book provide a comprehensive review of child care policy and practice. They present evaluations and critiques of new or impending legislation and policies, and describe innovative services for children and young people who are deemed to be in need of protection, care or control as a result of abandonment, neglect, ill-treatment, offending or other difficulties. They also examine changes in adoption law, where such issues as placement policies in relation to children from ethnic minorities, intercountry adoption and the trend towards greater openness have become prominent and controversial in recent years.

Author : Anne Marie Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 1303411989

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Exploration of Decision Making Among Child Welfare Social Workers in British Columbia by Anne Marie Clayton Pdf

The goal of this qualitative study was to examine the lived experience of decision making by child welfare social workers in British Columbia, Canada. The research problem was a gap in research regarding the decision making of expert child welfare social workers in both crisis and non-crisis situations. The phenomenological research design was to allow social workers the opportunity to express their lived experience of decision making. Through personal interviews with eight social workers currently employed by the Ministry of Children and Family Development in British Columbia, who each had more than ten years experience, information was collected about decision making inboth crisis and non-crisis situations. These data from the interviews were analyzed through a modified Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method that included writing textural and structural descriptions of the participants' interviews and combining these into composite descriptions. From the interviews, the participants revealed that, contrary to literature, they used intuition as a supplement to rational decision-making processes in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Intuition was based on their experience and expertise in the field of social work. This has implications for future research and for social work leadership. The field of social work has been moving towards decision aids and structured decision-making tools in an attempt to standardize social work decision making. The role of intuition based on practice experience needs to be addressed by research on decision making and the practice of child welfare social work.

Author : Aron Shlonsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190294007

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Child Welfare Research by Aron Shlonsky Pdf

Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. In the incisive chapters gathered here, some of the field's top investigators present their work and assess its effect on the full spectrum of child welfare services. Future generations of researchers, as well as students, practitioners, and service providers, will find the resulting text indispensable. Edited by Duncan Lindsey and Aron Shlonsky, two of the discipline's most articulate voices, the book covers every base. The opening chapters situate child welfare research in the modern context; they are followed by discussions of evidence-based practice in the field, arguably its most pressing concern now. Recent years have seen historic rises in the number of children adopted through public agencies and, accordingly, permanent placement and family ties are critical topics that occupy the book's core, along with chapters broaching the thorny questions that surround decision-making and risk assessment. The urgent need for a more effective use of research and evidence is highlighted again with looks at the future of child protection and how concrete data can influence policy and help children. Finally, in recognition of the growing importance of a global view, closing chapters address international issues in child welfare research, including an examination of policies from abroad and a multinational comparison of the economic challenges facing single mothers and their children. With its insightful treatment of child welfare services in terms of the broader welfare system and acknowledgment of the myriad problems child welfare agencies face, this exceptional compendium offers a rich understanding of the social conditions that influence contemporary child welfare and enables the field to move ahead without losing sight of valuable lessons that have been learned.

Author : Lena Dominelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429869570

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Community Approaches to Child Welfare by Lena Dominelli Pdf

Published in 1999, Community Approaches to Child Welfare is written by both practitioners and academics to explore ways in which community-based, preventative approaches to child welfare can be used to support families experiencing behavioural problems with children or undergoing difficulties in raising them. Specific practice examples developed in Britain, Canada and Sweden provide an international dimension to this book. Comparing and contrasting developments within these countries reveal that there are both similarities in the methods adopted and difference in the ways in which these are applied. Common themes which appear across the stories that are presented include: the importance of ensuring cultural specificity to respond to identity issues and local traditions; the need to adhere to legislation that is country specific; the importance of dealing with some child welfare issues on an international basis, e.g. child abductions; and the importance of giving children the space within which to articulate their own 'voice.' Additionally, the book reveals how working with families from a community perspective which is centered in acknowledging children’s rights and parental rights may challenge professionals in ways that they find uncomfortable. Nevertheless, the book concludes that practice can more effectively serve children’s interests if parents and workers work in partnership with each other.

Author : Jenny L Jones,Paul Sundet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317717775

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Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative by Jenny L Jones,Paul Sundet Pdf

Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative documents practice techniques that were used during a three-year training/demonstration project for child welfare supervisors working in the frontlines of child protection services in the Southeastern United States. This unique book is a guide to combining research methodology with staff training to enhance the quality of evidence-based practice in the field. The book examines techniques that were used in training modules in four states, highlighting practice models and intervention outcomes from an evidence-based perspective. Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative includes details about the project from the federal perspective (The Children’s Bureau) and the operational implications at the Southern Regional Quality Improvement Center (SRQIC) level. The book examines the issues of providing technical research assistance to child welfare agencies and the complexities of cross-site evaluation with different political jurisdictions. Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative examines: The Children’s Bureau discretionary grant program the relationship between child welfare workers’ career plans and their abilities to accomplish core work tasks secondary traumatic stress (STS) in child protective services workers methods for monitoring and evaluating child welfare supervisors clinical decision-making as a tool for building effective supervision skills the use of outcome data for decision-making the development and implementation of the Tennessee project the use of “360-degree” evaluations to improve clinical skill development the Intervention Design and Development model Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative is an invaluable aid for social work practitioners, child welfare workers, case managers, and supervisors, and for social work academics and students.

Author : National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse & Neglect Information (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : OCLC:70592668

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Decision-making in Unsubstantiated Child Protective Services Cases by National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse & Neglect Information (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Biesel, Kay,Masson, Judith,Nigel Parton,Tarja Pösö
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447350934

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Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection by Biesel, Kay,Masson, Judith,Nigel Parton,Tarja Pösö Pdf

Lessons from child protection errors and mistakes in 11 countries in Europe and North America are drawn together in a stimulating study from leading researchers in the field. By comparing and contrasting impacts, responses and responsibilities, it deepens understanding of how child protection systems fail and points to ideas for risk reduction.

Author : Aron Shlonsky,Rami Benbenishty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199973729

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From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare by Aron Shlonsky,Rami Benbenishty Pdf

This edited work offers a framework that organizes and develops the types of evidence needed at key decision points in child welfare.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309285155

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New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II Pdf

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves -- they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains--including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems--and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.

Author : Clive Diaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447354444

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Decision Making in Child and Family Social Work by Clive Diaz Pdf

Presenting new research, this book provides refreshing guidance on how social workers can ensure that children and parents participate more effectively in decision making processes when childcare social workers are involved and improve outcomes for all. There is increasing pressure to involve children and young people in the decisions that affect them. Presenting new research on the extent to which parents and children participate in decision making when childcare social workers are involved, particularly in child protection conferences and Child in Care reviews, Diaz argues for a radical shift in existing practices. Including a range of perspectives from children and young people, parents, social workers, independent reviewing officers and senior managers, this book provides refreshing guidance on how social workers can work better with children and parents to ensure that they participate more effectively in decision making processes and improve outcomes for all.