Download or read book Multicultural Competence and Decision making Bias in Child Protective Services written by Michael N. Ghali and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: African-American children are overrepresented in the American Child Welfare system. Research has concluded that this overrepresentation is not due to higher rates of abuse and neglect in African-American families, but more likely due to differential treatment of African-Americans somewhere along the process of reporting, investigation, and service allocation. This study serves as an initial examination into the relationships between multicultural competence, race, and decision-making bias in the investigation phase of the child protective service process. Participants were asked to read a series of case vignettes and make decisions regarding 1) the extent to which they believe the information is evidence of actual child abuse or neglect, 2) level of risk to the child and 3) level of recommended intervention, based upon the information presented in the vignettes. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and regression analyses were used to analyze the data. Results from this sample of data suggest that ratings of perceived risk and recommended intervention do vary based on the race of the child and that the multicultural competence of the investigators does significantly predict ratings of substantiation agreement, level of perceived risk, and recommended intervention. Results and limitations are discussed and recommendations for future research are presented.
Download or read book Decision Making Among Future Mandated Reporters of Child Maltreatment written by Jennifer Hanna and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-standing racial disparities in referrals to Child Protective Services mean children of color, particularly Black and Native American children, are overrepresented. Bias among mandated reporters is one possible explanation for this inequity and, as such, examination of mandated reporters' decision making is worthy of study as an avenue to improve practice and potentially reduce disparities. The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of child race and three malleable reporter characteristics ˗ cultural competence, ethnic identity development, and anti-racism ˗ on decision making by future mandated reporters. It also explored relationships between the three reporter characteristics. The sample included 167 undergraduate and graduate students living in and attending higher education institutions in the United States. Data analyses included descriptive statistics, an independent t-test, and hierarchical multiple linear regression. The results demonstrated no significant differences in level of action, the variable representing decision making, based on race of child. The results did not support the reporter characteristics of interest in this study as predictors of level of action. Significant correlations were found between cultural competence and ethnic identity development and cultural competence and anti-racism, lending support to the conceptual relationships between these constructs. A discussion of the study results and implications is presented along with limitations of the study and recommendations for future research.
Download or read book Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment written by Vassilia Binensztok and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment provides detailed descriptions of child maltreatment assessment and key strategies for culturally informed risk assessment in families. The book presents a new model for evaluating families that includes cultural competence, a conceptualization of adequate parenting, and strategies for reflective decision making. Chapters address a range of factors including race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality. Ten case studies, each including discussion prompts, challenge the reader to apply forensic evaluation techniques for effective and ethical decision making in complex and ambiguous cases. Both experienced mental health providers and students will come away from the book with a deeper understanding of child maltreatment and its effects, models and modes of assessment, and factors that place families at greater risk.
Download or read book Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System written by Alan J. Dettlaff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative written by Jenny L Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Cross cultural Competence of Child Protective Services Workers written by Darby E. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Multicultural Assessment written by Lisa A. Suzuki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Multicultural Assessment offers the most comprehensive text on testing of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes the most current and state-of-the-art assessment information in a variety of psychological and educational domains. The book highlights new and innovative testing practices and expands the populations of interest to include recent immigrants and refugees. It also includes ways to overcome barriers in the assessment process as well as forensic assessment. This important resource offers an instructional text for conducting culturally competent psychological assessment for clinicians, educators, and researchers.
Download or read book Evidence for Child Welfare Practice written by Michael J. Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Annotated Bibliography of Resources on Cultural Competence and Cultural Diversity in Child Welfare child Protective Services written by People of Color Leadership Institute and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Competence Agency Self assessment Instrument written by and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 2002 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular field-tested management tool will help child service organizations identify, improve, and enhance cultural competence in staff relations and client service delivery. With a practical, easy-to-use approach, it addresses the major issues of delivering culturally competent service. Users will be able to determine whether or not existing agency policies, practices, and programs achieve and promote cultural competence in the areas of governance, program development, administration, management, and service delivery.
Download or read book Working with Ethnic Minorities and Across Cultures in Western Child Protection Systems written by Pooja Sawrikar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop. This lag could be accused of enabling institutional racism – that is, culturally insensitive practices and policies can cause or perpetuate harm to non-mainstream children and families, the very thing that child protection systems are set up to address. Thus, it is critical that the field has a resource that clearly and comprehensively outlines the characteristics of cultural competency in the child protection system when working with ethnic minorities and across both mainstream and non-mainstream cultures, so as to equally protect the safety of all children. Unlike previous research, this book addresses discrete and relevant practice issues - how to work effectively with interpreters, whether or not to match caseworkers and clients based on ethnic background and what to consider when making plans for children in the out-of-home-care (OOHC) system - with best practice guidelines. This book will be required reading for all social work students, academics and practitioners whose work engages with issues of cultural competency.
Download or read book Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children Youth and Their Families written by Neil A. Cohen and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emphasizes the importance of utilizing a pro-active, strengths-based practice strategy in working with multi-culturally diverse children, youth, families, organizations and communities.
Download or read book Social Workers Attitudes and Perceptions on Cultural Competence in Child Welfare written by Monica Elaine Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined social workers' view on cultural competence and the disproportionate rates of African American children in foster care. This study seeks to explain how cultural biases affecting social workers' decisions contribute to the removal of children from their families based on social worker's inability to understand or recognize cultural differences in child rearing practices.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems written by Virginia C. Strand and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Neglected Children written by Howard Dubowitz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-01-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child neglect is the most common type of child maltreatment. Substantial evidence indicates that the morbidity and mortality associated with neglect are significant, with enormous costs to the children involved and to society. Yet there is no major text focused exclusively on child neglect. Neglected Children presents a comprehensive and critical portrait of the phenomenon of neglect, based on theory, research and clinical practice experience. The editor and the contributing authors present a rich, interdisciplinary conceptualization with a broad view of neglect, moving far beyond the current child welfare focus on parental omissions in care. This broader view is essential to seriously addressing the complex and pervasive underpinnings of neglect.
Download or read book Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology written by Emilia C. Lopez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook offers a beautifully balanced view of the emerging field of multicultural school psychology. The opening section provides an historical overview of how the field has developed, and succeeding sections discuss multicultural issues related to consultation, instructional interventions, alternative assessment, academic assessment, vocational assessment, culturally sensitive counseling models, and working with families and special populations. Theory, research, and practice are integrated throughout. Key features of this exciting new book include: Interdisciplinary Perspective - Many chapters are written by authors from different disciplines, all of whom have multicultural expertise. The last chapter provides summarizing commentaries written by leaders in different disciplines. Scientist-Practitioner Focus - Evidence-based interventions for culturally and linguistically diverse students are provided for major competency areas such as consultation, counseling, and special programs (e.g., bilingual and multicultural education). Assessment Focus - Multicultural and bilingual assessment issues are discussed in the chapters covering language, cognitive, personality, behavioral, neuropsychological, vocational, acculturational, and academic assessment. Special Populations Focus - The needs of special populations such as culturally different parents, gifted and talented children, preschool children, migrant families, and children with low and high incidence learning disabilities are discussed in section VI. This book is appropriate for graduate courses and seminars dealing with multicultural school psychology. It is also a useful reference for researchers and practicing school psychologists and the libraries serving them.
