Download or read book Decision making and Service Recommendations in Child Protective Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the CPS decision-making process is of great importance to child welfare practice because of the need to better understand factors affecting the recommendations for service made by CPS workers. This study explored the CPS worker's recommendations for services in child abuse and neglect situations (dependent variable) and its relationship to factors believed to influence these decisions---the personal characteristics of CPS workers; their degree of adherence to agency's policies and procedures and common practices, and workers' perceptions of clients' willingness to voluntarily cooperate with service (independent variables). Additional analyses focused on the level of certainty about the CPS situations and compared caseworkers and supervisors. The study sought to answer four questions about factors believed to influence CPS services decisions and to test ten hypotheses (seven were related to workers' individual characteristics, two were related to agency factors, and one related to clients' factors) that were formulated as a result of an extensive literature review in child protective services and on the researcher's observations of CPS fieldwork. Of the seven workers' characteristics examined only age and ethnicity were found to relate to the levels of service recommendations. Of interest is the fact that older workers in contrast what had been anticipated, chose more severe actions for the simulated CPS situations in the study. The findings also showed that African American and Hispanic workers differ from White workers in the severity of service recommendations. African Americans and Hispanics showed a similar disposition to select the more severe types of service. Both of the hypotheses related to agency's factors, policies and procedures and common practice, presented in the null form were confirmed. This investigation surveyed a sample of 150 New York City child protective services caseworkers and supervisors to obtain opinions and judgments about cases and situations typical of the work they do, a perspective rarely discussed in the literature.
Download or read book Decision Making in Child Welfare Services written by T.J. Stein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Helping in Child Protective Services written by American Humane Association and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators. This invaluable resource provides CPS workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to assist vulnerable families, covering such key issues as assessment, decision making, intervention, child development, medical evaluation, accountability, and the legal framework of culturally responsive practice. This handbook equips CPS professionals and students to follow the casework process from intake through case closure with step-by-step instructions and examples. Chapters cover child development, key developmental milestones, and the importance of intervention; medical evaluation of child abuse and neglect; how to structure interviews and phrase questions to obtain information from families and guide the casework process; and the importance of accountable practice to families, their agencies, and the public. This latest edition of Helping in Child Protective Services compiles the most up-to-date research and practice information to help professionals provide the highest quality and most innovative services to children and families.
Download or read book Decision Making at Child Welfare Intake written by Theodore J. Stein and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Protective Services written by Diane Depanfilis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the foundation for casework practice in Child Protective Services (CPS). Describes the basic stages of the CPS process and the steps necessary to accomplish successfully each stage: intake, initial assessment/investigation, family assessment, case planning, service provision, and evaluation of family progress and case closure. Designed primarily for CPS caseworkers, supervisors, and administrators. Glossary. Bibiography.
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 Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting and Investigation written by Douglas J. Besharov and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage written by Radha Jagannathan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for our society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention that social outrage emanating from horrific and often sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in CPS decision making and in child outcomes. The ebb and flow of outrage, we believe, invokes three levels of response that are consistent with patterns of the number of child maltreatment reports made to public child welfare agencies, the number of cases screened-in by these CPS agencies, the proportions of alleged cases substantiated as instances of real child abuse or neglect, and the numbers of children placed outside their homes. At the community level, outrage produces amplified surveillance and a posture of "zero-tolerance" while child protection workers, in turn, carry out their duties under a fog of "infinite jeopardy." With outrage as a driving force, child protective services organizations are forced into changes that are disjointed and highly episodic; changes which follow a course identified in the natural sciences as abrupt equilibrium changes. Through such manifestations as child safety legislation, institutional reform litigation of state child protective services agencies, massive retooling of the CPS workforce, the rise of community surveillance groups and moral entrepreneurs, and the exploitation of fatality statistics by media and politicians we find evidence of outrage at work and its power to change social attitudes, worker decisions and organizational culture. In this book, Jungian psychology intersects with the punctuated equilibrium theory to provide a compelling explanation for the decisions made by public CPS agencies to protect children.
Download or read book Child Protective Services written by James L. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Protection written by National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Decision making Criteria Regarding Placement Utilized by Child Protective Services Workers in Cases of Child Abuse and Neglect written by Patricia S. Ploehn and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Structured Decision Making System in Child Protective Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decision Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection written by John D. Fluke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professionals in child welfare and protection are often required to make decisions--fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings--that have crucial implications for children and families. There are many indications that these decisions are frequently unreliable and involve unavoidable errors in judgement due to the uncertainties. Despite the central role of judgements in the field, child welfare and protection training and research programs pay limited attention to leveraging the human factors aspect of practice. Although extensive research exists in relevant areas--such as medicine, psychology, business administration, and economics--little has been done to help develop, transfer, and translate scientific knowledge to the child welfare arena. Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection pulls together the best internationally sourced expertise and makes it accessibly available and applicable to scholars, educators, practitioners, students, and policymakers--the key stakeholders in child protective services and child welfare.
Download or read book A New Approach to Child Protective Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Way to Treat a Child written by Naomi Schaefer Riley and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Download or read book Decision Making at Child Protective Services Intake and Potential for Expert Systems written by Joni W. Wick and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
