scholarly journals Child- and Family-Centered Practices in a Post-Bureaucratic Era: Inherent Conflicts Encountered by the New Child Welfare Professional

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine S. M. Van Veelen ◽  
Arnout E. Bunders ◽  
Tomris Cesuroglu ◽  
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse ◽  
Barbara J. Regeer
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Welfare Professional

Becoming Family Centered: Child Welfare's Challenge

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Family Preservation ◽  
Family Preservation Services ◽  
Child Welfare Agencies ◽  
Welfare Agencies ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Family Support Services

The author discusses current challenges to increasing family-centered practice within child welfare agencies. The article focuses on two issues: (1) child welfare's collaboration with early-intervention and family-support services and (2) maintaining family-preservation services despite growing criticism of such services.

scholarly journals Distinguishing Racism, Not Race, as a Risk Factor for Child Welfare Involvement: Reclaiming the Familial and Cultural Strengths in the Lived Experiences of Child Welfare-Affected Parents of Color

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Tricia N. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Parents Of Color ◽  
Family Centered

Child welfare-affected parents of color (CW-PaoC) are often described using language that is deficit-focused, their families depicted as fragile and living in a near constant state of crisis and need. This commentary challenges the stereotypes created by hyper-attention to these parents’ struggles and situates them, and their families, within the broader context of the American appetite for family separation, wherein specific types of families are targeted for scrutiny, intervention and regulation. The concept of fragility within families is dissected to illustrate the ways in which racism and classism demarcate certain families for separation. Excerpts from two separate interviews conducted with Black mothers in 2014 and 2020 are used to illustrate how the appetite for family separation is currently fed. Familial and cultural strengths that counteract the prevailing deficit-focused narrative of CW-PaoC, particularly Black parents, are discussed. This commentary ends with a call for the dissolution of the CW system in its current regulatory form and the rebuilding of family-centered supports that center familial strengths.

Measuring Family-Centered Practice in Child Welfare

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-166
Author(s):  
Yanfeng Xu ◽  
Haksoon Ahn ◽  
Daniel Keyser
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Centered

Although family-centered practice has been implemented nationwide in child welfare, measures for evaluating family-centered practice have not been well-established. This study aimed to evaluate the factor structure of the Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the factor structure of the Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire. The five-factor and second-order five-factor models of the revised Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire with 31 items both demonstrated adequate fit. The higher order of this scale was family-centered practice and five factors were mutual trust, shared decision-making, family as a unit, strengths-based practice, and cultural competence and sensitivity. Findings suggest that the revised Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire may be helpful to practitioners and researchers seeking to measure the implementation of family-centered practice in child welfare settings.

Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond?

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Sue White ◽  
Matthew Gibson ◽  
David Wastell ◽  
Patricia Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Moral Claims ◽  
Welfare Professional

This chapter examines the symbiotic relationship between child welfare professional practice, social work in particular, and the ascent of attachment theory. The development of social work had provided fertile ground for the incubation of early ideas about attachment theory, particularly in child and family social work. It was not, however, accepted as a legitimate theory simply because John Bowlby had introduced it to the profession. Rather, while the foundations were there for attachment theory to be used in practice, it was a more complex process that eventually resulted in the theory being taught on social work courses and used routinely by practitioners. Crucial in that translation was the shift in emphasis from ‘normal’, non-clinical populations to children suffering maltreatment. As the institutional logics driving social work with children and families have shifted from the provision of help to the prediction of risk, attachment theory has been a flexible companion providing enticing vocabularies to support moral claims.

Steering Our Future Course: Developing an Agenda for Managed Care and Child Welfare

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Letitia B. Bratton ◽  
Robin W. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Force Field Analysis ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Systematic Framework

As child welfare services are restructured for outcomes which demonstrate efficiency and effectiveness, there is a growing need to help professionals understand the choices and challenges of going to a market-driven approach. Lewin's force field analysis model is used to provide a systematic framework for understanding why managed care is not likely to fade away. An argument is made for a proactive response that is based on a family-centered, strengths-based approach to child welfare within the context of managed care.

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