Young people and social workers’ experience of differences between child welfare services and social services

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 19-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Oterholm ◽  
Veronika Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services

scholarly journals Negotiating, Opposing, and Transposing Dangerousness: A Relational Perspective on Young People’s Experiences of Secure Care

Young ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Sofia Enell ◽  
Monika Wilińska
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Young People ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Relational Sociology ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Secure Care ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article analyses how young people, with experiences of secure care, relate to the contradictory images of children in child welfare: the child in danger and the dangerous child. The study is based in Sweden and consists of in-depth interviews with 16 youths conducted repeatedly (three times) over a period of 2 years. Using the perspective of relational sociology, we demonstrate how abstract images of children are materialized through the institutional practices of broken, interrupted, forbidden and forced relations. Within this context, young people are found to relate differently to being placed in the institution by negotiating, opposing and transposing. All practices display their unfolding agency and struggle to make sense of the experience. The restrictive practices seem to deny young people relations through which a sense of safety and care can be established. We conclude by putting into question the very foundations of secure care within child welfare services.

scholarly journals Privatization of Child Welfare Services in the U.S.A. Current Policy in Historical Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Hegar
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Children’S Homes

This article analyses historical trends in privatization of child welfare services in the United States, including children’s homes, foster family care, and adoption. It also considers how professionalization and deprofessionalization of child welfare services have varied with shifts in the dominant auspices for the provision of social services.

Decision-making in foster care: A view on the dynamic and collective nature of the process

2020 ◽  
pp. 146801732092882
Author(s):  
Doris Chateauneuf ◽  
Marie-Andrée Poirier ◽  
Geneviève Pagé
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
The Social

Summary Placement in a foster family by child welfare services is a crucial decision in the trajectory of a child. Nevertheless, the strategies and procedures underlying the decision to remove a child from his/her family for placement in foster care remain little studied. Based on 39 semi-directed individual interviews with social workers from child welfare services, the current study aims at highlighting how social workers come to the decision to remove a child from parental care, and how they choose a foster family. Findings The thematic analysis of the qualitative data collected reveals that four main components were raised by social workers to explain how they make their decisions regarding placement and what are the considerations associated with this process: (1) Professional consensus and collaboration, (2) Clinical and legal guidelines, (3) Risk assessment and clinical judgment, and (4) Personality and values of the social worker. The results of this study show that decisions surrounding the removal of a child from his/her family and the choice of a foster family are the result of multiples factors and strategies involving the social worker and other collaborating professionals, as well as their legal and administrative context. Application The findings suggest that additional efforts could be made in child protection organizations and agencies in order to develop supportive measures that take into account the collective and interactional aspect of the decision-making process regarding placement in foster care.

Agreement and discrepancy between children, parents, and social workers on school-based effort avoidance in child welfare services

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1431-1439
Author(s):  
Hanna Maria Weber ◽  
Franz Petermann ◽  
Stefan Rücker ◽  
Peter Büttner
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
School Based

Identity Categorization of Motherhood in the Context of Drug Abuse and Child Welfare Services

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Virokannas
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Help Giving ◽  
Female Drug Users

This study considers the accounts of mothers who have been using illegal drugs, have received treatment and are in the process of recovering. The data is based on 19 individual interviews conducted between May and December 2005 in two institutions for female drug users in southern Finland. The primary aim is to discuss the self-conceptions of the interviewed women as they related their experiences with social workers and the child welfare system. The study relies on the social constructionist view of identity as a self-construction created in situations of interaction and routines of everyday life. As a result, four different categories of motherhood identities and their connections to the various positions of child welfare authorities identified in the interviews of women with drug histories are presented: Responsible motherhood — asking for help, Giving up motherhood — submitting to outside forces, Strategic motherhood — learning to cope and Stigmatized motherhood — fighting back. Asking help from child welfare services was the only category in which the mothers were able to manifest responsible motherhood and co-operate with social workers.

Child Welfare Services in Norway

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oivin Christiansen ◽  
Karen J. Skaale Havnen ◽  
Dag Skilbred
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services
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