Strengthening The Retention Of Child Protection Workers

Author : Kenneth Burns
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783867418294

Get Book

Strengthening the Retention of Child Protection Workers by Kenneth Burns Pdf

This book examines a key issue in the field of human and social services: how to retain workers in child protection and welfare organisations. Research over the last decade has highlighted the turnover of these workers as being a pressing and perennial issue that impacts upon service users, staff welfare, resources and the reputation of this sector. This book presents the findings of a study examining social workers' retention in child protection and welfare. The findings from this study highlights how workers' retention is influenced by exchanges relationships with colleagues and managers, and this book presents a unique 'career preference' typology which expands our understanding of how workers make decisions to stay or leave based upon their pre-conceptions of career pathways post-qualification. The book also examines findings associated with the employment mobility of these workers within child protection and tracks their next post after leaving, which provides some surprising findings regarding how we understand and measure turnover for these workers. The book also examines rich qualitative data from these workers' experiences of being a social worker in child protection associated with; job satisfaction, commitment to child protection and welfare work, making a difference, quality of supervision, autonomy, and exchange relationships with peers, all of which emerged as important factors in social workers' decisions to stay or leave. The implications of this study's findings for theory are also explored. Kenneth Burns is deputy course director of the Master of Social Work and a research associate with the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century at University College Cork, Ireland.

Author : Alastair Christie,Brid Featherstone,Suzanne Quin,Trish Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137383211

Get Book

Social Work in Ireland by Alastair Christie,Brid Featherstone,Suzanne Quin,Trish Walsh Pdf

During a period of great economic and political change and uncertainty this book offers a timely evaluation of social work in Ireland. Social Work in Ireland: Changes and Continuities has brought together a range of academics and professionals to provide a comprehensive analysis of social work in the Republic of Ireland. It addresses key questions such as 'How is social work in Ireland responding to rapidly changing social, cultural and economic circumstances?'; 'How will the new relationships between the state/NGO/private sectors impact on the provision of social services?' and 'How does, and will, social work respond to the needs of specific service user groups?' In addressing these questions the book explores key areas of practice, including child welfare, domestic violence, mental health, working with migrants and minority ethnic groups, substance misuse, probation services, and work with older people and people with a disability. This book is an essential read for students of social work and social care in Ireland and will also be of great interest to qualified practitioners in both the social work field and other social care professions.

Author : Gerald P. Mallon,Peg McCartt Hess
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231525350

Get Book

Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century by Gerald P. Mallon,Peg McCartt Hess Pdf

The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which became law in 1997, elicited a major shift in federal policy and thinking toward child welfare, emphasizing children's safety, permanency, and well-being over preserving biological ties at all costs. The first edition of this volume mapped the field of child welfare after ASFA's passage, detailing the practices, policies, programs, and research affected by the legislation's new attitude toward care. This second edition highlights the continuously changing child welfare climate in the U.S., including content on the Fostering Connections Act of 2008. The authors have updated the text throughout, drawing from real-world case examples and data obtained from the national Child and Family Services Reviews and emerging empirically based practices. They have also added chapters addressing child welfare workforce issues, supervision, and research and evaluation. The volume is divided into four sections—child and adolescent well-being, child and adolescent safety, permanency for children and adolescents, and systemic issues within services, policies, and programs. Recognized scholars, practitioners, and policy makers discuss meaningful engagement with families, particularly Latino families; health care for children and youth, including mental health care; effective practices with LGBT youth and their families; placement stability; foster parent recruitment and retention; and the challenges of working with immigrant children, youth, and families.

Author : Virginia C. Strand,Ginny Sprang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319646022

Get Book

Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems by Virginia C. Strand,Ginny Sprang Pdf

This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems. Organized around concepts of safety, permanency, and well-being, chapters describe innovations in child protection, violence prevention, foster care, and adoption services to reduce immediate effects of trauma on children and improve long-term development and maturation. Foundations and interventions for practice include collaborations with families and community entities, cultural competency, trauma-responsive assessment and treatment, promoting trauma-informed parenting, and, when appropriate, working toward reunification of families. The book’s chapters on agency culture also address staffing, supervisory, and training issues, planning and implementation, and developing a competent, committed, and sturdy workforce. Among the topics covered: Trauma-informed family engagement with resistant clients. Introducing evidence-based trauma treatment in preventive services. Working with resource parents for trauma-informed foster care. Use of implementation science principles in program development for sustainability. Trauma informed and secondary traumatic stress informed organizational readiness assessments. Caseworker training for trauma practice and building worker resiliency. Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems ably assists psychology professionals of varied disciplines, social workers, and mental health professionals applying trauma theory and trauma-informed family engagement to clinical practice and/or research seeking to gain strategies for creating trauma-informed agency practice and agency culture. It also makes a worthwhile text for a child welfare training curriculum.

Author : Gary Cameron,Marshall Fine,Sarah Maiter,Karen Frensch,Nancy Freymond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442614550

Get Book

Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare by Gary Cameron,Marshall Fine,Sarah Maiter,Karen Frensch,Nancy Freymond Pdf

Based on findings from a decade's worth of research, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare provides original reflections on the everyday realities of families and front-line service providers involved with the system.

Author : Melissa Jonson-Reid,Brett Drake
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780190653026

Get Book

After the Cradle Falls by Melissa Jonson-Reid,Brett Drake Pdf

"This book integrates examples from folklore, songs and news articles with strong attention to empirical research to create an accessible and engaging work intended to provoke the reader to think about how to address the issue of child abuse and neglect in America"--

Author : Stewart Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351470537

Get Book

The Positive Social Worker by Stewart Collins Pdf

Developed from the author’s own experiences in social work and social work education, this book considers alternative approaches for social workers in dealing with the extensive demands, persistent pressures, and stress that they may face in their daily working lives. The Positive Social Worker is firmly located in an individual, group, organisational, cultural, and socio-political context. It considers and celebrates concepts linked to the importance, and sources, of work-related well-being. Individual chapters describe and critically analyse the social work context, the role of hope, optimism, commitment, resilience, support, appraisals, positive emotions, and coping, self-efficacy, control, and agency. Throughout, clear links are made with social work practice. While the book concentrates on a UK context, it draws on literature from social work, social, organisational, work, and positive psychology and sociology, from the UK, the USA, Europe, Australasia, and other countries. This book should be considered essential reading for social workers, graduate and postgraduate social work students, practice teachers, and lecturers. It will also be of relevance to professionals and professionals-in-training in the criminal justice and health and social care fields.

Author : Bob Lonne,Deb Scott,Daryl Higgins,Todd I. Herrenkohl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030058586

Get Book

Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children by Bob Lonne,Deb Scott,Daryl Higgins,Todd I. Herrenkohl Pdf

This volume provides readers around the globe with a focused and comprehensive examination of how to prevent and respond to child maltreatment using evidence-informed public health approaches and programs that meet the needs of vulnerable children, and struggling families and communities. It outlines the system failures of contemporary forensically-driven child protection practice. Detailed guidance is provided about how to re-think earlier intervention strategies, and establish stronger and more effective programs and services that prevent maltreatment at the population level. Service user and stakeholder perspectives, particularly from marginalized groups including Indigenous peoples, highlight how public health approaches can better support families and keep children safe. Case studies from different countries grapple with the fraught nature of large system change and the various strategies needed to effect multi-level reforms. Presenting the reader with an array of innovative services used in different institutional and community context, this volume confronts the complex challenges found in implementing successful prevention programs that are aligned with diverse cultural and political environments and community expectations.

Author : Erik M.P. Schott,Eugenia L. Weiss
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483359625

Get Book

Transformative Social Work Practice by Erik M.P. Schott,Eugenia L. Weiss Pdf

Transformative Social Work Practice presents an innovative and integrative approach towards critically reflective practice with an interweaving of micro, mezzo, and macro applications to real world demands. Authors Erik Schott and Eugenia L. Weiss explore issues commonly addressed by social workers, including health, mental health, addictions, schools, and family and community violence, while challenging assumptions and promoting ethically-driven, evidence-based practice perspectives to advocate for social justice and reduce disparities. The book is about redefining social work practice to meet the current and complex needs of diverse and vulnerable individuals, families, and communities in order to enhance their strengths in an era of unprecedented technological growth, globalization, and change.

Author : Patrick Leung,Monit Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000769906

Get Book

Title IV-E Child Welfare Education by Patrick Leung,Monit Cheung Pdf

BSW/MSW education funded by Title IV-E of Social Security Act ("Title IV-E Child Welfare Education") is an important incentive to encourage social workers to stay in the child protection field. It aims to demonstrate the training partnership between universities and public child welfare agencies. This book contains essential research results with a focus on the impact of Title IV-E Child Welfare Education to improve worker capacities and case outcomes, as well as on the process and results of social work education in promoting public child welfare work. There are nine chapters written by renowned researchers in public child welfare who applied rigorous quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies to clearly describe measures used, data sources, outcome variables, and implications for education, practice, policy, and research. These evidence-based articles address the following child welfare topics: training partnerships and worker outcomes, effective pedagogy and online education, workplace climate and retention factors, and other topics connecting BSW/MSW education to public child welfare practice. Future child welfare education will need to further expand child welfare knowledge and skills, strengthen worker competencies with a strong commitment to social work values and ethical practice principles, and develop a cohesive supervisory network to build a workforce with positive attitude toward child protection programs. This collection will inform child welfare educators, administrators and legislators regarding the impact of Title IV-E Child Welfare Education on the development of public child welfare and make recommendations to improve the child welfare curriculum in social work education. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Author : Alan J. Dettlaff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030543143

Get Book

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 : Jenny L Jones,Paul Sundet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317717775

Get Book

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 : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470246764

Get Book

Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Profession of Social Work by Anonim Pdf

Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 1: The Profession of Social Work features contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners and presents the most comprehensive, in-depth source of information on the field of social work and social welfare.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : PSU:000066744214

Get Book

Improving the Child Welfare System by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Children and Families
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015090407282

Get Book

Protecting Children, Strengthening Families by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Children and Families Pdf