Child Protective Services Decision Outcomes and the Role of Outragean Empirical Test

2013 ◽  
pp. 113-150
Author(s):  
Radha Jagannathan ◽  
Michael J. Camasso
Keyword(s):  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Decision Outcomes

scholarly journals Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110061
Author(s):  
Leonidas K Cheliotis ◽  
Tasseli McKay
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Family Study ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Parental Violence ◽  
Child Support Enforcement ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
State Coercion ◽  
Coercive Intervention

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison every year. Drawing on interviews conducted in the mid-2010s in the context of the Multi-site Family Study on Parenting, Partnering and Incarceration, this article explores how the strains of prisoner re-entry interact with those of poverty and family life, and how these combined strains condition proactive engagement with the legal system among re-entering individuals and their intimate and co-parenting partners. We focus our analysis on problems, tensions and struggles for control in parenting and partnership, including inter-parental violence, as these often led to calls or actions that clearly allowed for coercive intervention by parole authorities, courts, child support enforcement, or child protective services. We identify the precise circumstances and motives that lay behind such requests or allowances, and explain how these related to the cynical regard in which former prisoners and their partners typically held the coercive apparatus of the state. Through bringing our empirical findings into an interplay with scholarship on the role of punishment in the governance of poverty under neoliberalism, we examine how the strains faced by former prisoners' households and the tactics they used to deal with them pertain to broader politico-economic arrangements.

scholarly journals Case Reports: Multifaceted Experiences Treating Youth with Severe Obesity

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Schaller ◽  
Linda Stephenson-Somers ◽  
Adolfo Ariza ◽  
Maheen Quadri ◽  
Helen Binns
Keyword(s):  
Severe Obesity ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Integral Role

The management of youth with severe obesity is strongly impacted by social determinants of health and family dynamics. We present case studies of three patients seen in our tertiary care obesity treatment clinic as examples of the challenges faced by these patients and their families, as well as by the medical team. We discuss how these cases illustrate potential barriers to care, the role of child protective services, and we reflect upon lessons learned through the care of these patients. These cases highlight the need for comprehensive care in the management of youth with severe obesity, which can include: visits to multiple medical specialists, and mental and behavioral health providers; school accommodations; linkage to community resources; and, potentially, child protective services involvement. Through the care of these youth, our medical team gained more experience with using anti-obesity medications and meal replacements. The care of these youth also heightened our appreciation for the integral role of mental health services and community-based resources in the management of youth with severe obesity.

A Review of Screened-Out Families and Child Protective Services Involvement: A Missed Opportunity to Prevent Future Maltreatment With Community-Based Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755952110335
Author(s):  
James D. Simon ◽  
María Gandarilla Ocampo ◽  
Brett Drake ◽  
Melissa Jonson-Reid
Keyword(s):  
Child Protective Services ◽  
State Level ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Intervention Research ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Community Based Services ◽  
Missed Opportunity

The objective of this article is to frame, understand, and draw implications from existing research on families screened out by child protective services (CPS) after a referral alleging child maltreatment. We review descriptive and outcome data together with emerging intervention research amidst a developing consensus that the current reactive role of CPS should be supplemented by supportive and preventative services that primarily address poverty. State-level data indicate that screened-out families are at high risk of re-referral and similar to higher-risk families reported to CPS. Intervention research is scant and mixed, but there is indication that providing community-based services may reduce future CPS involvement. Considering that screened-out referrals present an opportunity to prevent future maltreatment, CPS should identify and collaboratively engage screened-out families in community-based services. More research on the outcomes of these community responses is needed to identify best practices related to engagement and service provision.

Child Abuse Consultations Initiated by Child Protective Services: The Role of Expert Opinions

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 467-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay McGuire ◽  
Kimberly D. Martin ◽  
John M. Leventhal
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Expert Opinions
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