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Welfare Workers (welfare + worker)

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Humanities and Social Sciences50%

Selected Abstracts

Child Welfare Workers and Michigan's Family Court Legislation: The Relationship Between Policy and Practice

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
JOSEPH KOZAKIEWICZ J.D.
ABSTRACT Michigan created a family court in 1998, combining in a single court jurisdiction over most family law cases. This study examines the child welfare workers' role in creating the family court, the family court's impact on child welfare workers' practice, and child welfare workers' efforts to educate other professionals on the potential benefits of the family court system. This study found that child welfare workers were not actively involved in the creation of the family court and have not aggressively sought to educate other professionals regarding the family court's potential. Further, though child welfare workers' reception of the family court has largely been positive (or at least neutral), child welfare workers must take greater advantage of the family court system to improve the effectiveness of their practice. [source]

Good helping relationships in child welfare: learning from stories of success

CHILD & FAMILY SOCIAL WORK, Issue 1 2007
Catherine De Boer
ABSTRACT This study involved in-depth exploration of good helping relationships in child welfare. A select sample of six child welfare worker,client dyads was interviewed to determine worker attributes and actions that were key to the development of good working relationships. Innovative features of the research design, such as a multiple interview format with two individual and one joint interview for each worker and client (five interviews per dyad) and opportunities for the worker and client in each dyad to reflect on and respond to the other's interview transcripts, produced rich data and revealed high levels of congruency among workers, clients and researchers about worker relationship competencies. Two categories of themes that emerged from the qualitative analysis are discussed: (1) soft, mindful and judicious use of power; and (2) humanistic attitude and style that stretches traditional professional ways-of-being. Implications for the hiring, education and training, and supervision of child welfare workers are presented. [source]

Child Welfare Workers and Michigan's Family Court Legislation: The Relationship Between Policy and Practice

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
JOSEPH KOZAKIEWICZ J.D.
ABSTRACT Michigan created a family court in 1998, combining in a single court jurisdiction over most family law cases. This study examines the child welfare workers' role in creating the family court, the family court's impact on child welfare workers' practice, and child welfare workers' efforts to educate other professionals on the potential benefits of the family court system. This study found that child welfare workers were not actively involved in the creation of the family court and have not aggressively sought to educate other professionals regarding the family court's potential. Further, though child welfare workers' reception of the family court has largely been positive (or at least neutral), child welfare workers must take greater advantage of the family court system to improve the effectiveness of their practice. [source]

Good helping relationships in child welfare: learning from stories of success

CHILD & FAMILY SOCIAL WORK, Issue 1 2007
Catherine De Boer
ABSTRACT This study involved in-depth exploration of good helping relationships in child welfare. A select sample of six child welfare worker,client dyads was interviewed to determine worker attributes and actions that were key to the development of good working relationships. Innovative features of the research design, such as a multiple interview format with two individual and one joint interview for each worker and client (five interviews per dyad) and opportunities for the worker and client in each dyad to reflect on and respond to the other's interview transcripts, produced rich data and revealed high levels of congruency among workers, clients and researchers about worker relationship competencies. Two categories of themes that emerged from the qualitative analysis are discussed: (1) soft, mindful and judicious use of power; and (2) humanistic attitude and style that stretches traditional professional ways-of-being. Implications for the hiring, education and training, and supervision of child welfare workers are presented. [source]

Forging the links: (de)constructing chains of behaviours

CHILD ABUSE REVIEW, Issue 3 2006
Heather Piper
Abstract This paper will discuss an article by Becker and French (2005) in this Journal which proposed the general acceptance of correlations or the ,links' between child abuse, animal abuse and domestic violence. Becker and French claim this topic has ,seen a growth of interest' (p. 399) over the past two decades and they suggest that organizations across the UK should ,institutionalize the "links" within policy and practice' (p. 410). In this paper we question the appropriateness of linking different forms of violence in such a mechanistic and predictive way by drawing on and extending arguments we have made elsewhere. We consider the proposed ,links' in terms of assumptions, de,nitions, methods and logic, and raise concerns for a prospective practice which is based on retrospective (and ,awed) research. We aim to appeal to in,uential doubters (social workers, child care workers, animal welfare workers, vets, educators and policy-makers) in a language of ,reason', and we propose that the identi,ed reluctance of professionals in the UK to adopt the rhetoric of ,links' can be viewed as an informed and re,ective response. Throughout, we offer a corrective commentary to the ,awed assumptions of the ,links' argument and seek to encourage others to remain sceptical about these claims and the suggested implications for practice. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Child Welfare Workers and Michigan's Family Court Legislation: The Relationship Between Policy and Practice

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
JOSEPH KOZAKIEWICZ J.D.
ABSTRACT Michigan created a family court in 1998, combining in a single court jurisdiction over most family law cases. This study examines the child welfare workers' role in creating the family court, the family court's impact on child welfare workers' practice, and child welfare workers' efforts to educate other professionals on the potential benefits of the family court system. This study found that child welfare workers were not actively involved in the creation of the family court and have not aggressively sought to educate other professionals regarding the family court's potential. Further, though child welfare workers' reception of the family court has largely been positive (or at least neutral), child welfare workers must take greater advantage of the family court system to improve the effectiveness of their practice. [source]