Social Work Practice with Trans and Gender Expansive Youth in Child Welfare Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
Gerald P. Mallon ◽  
Ryan Karnoski ◽  
Oliver Stabbe ◽  
Liam Waller ◽  
Valentín Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Child Welfare Systems

scholarly journals COVID-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Dillon ◽  
Ffion Evans ◽  
Lauren Elizabeth Wroe
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Welfare Systems

Drawing on the theoretical work of Wacquant, Bourdieu and Foucault, we interrogate how the COVID-19 pandemic has weaponised child and family social work practices through reinvigorated mechanisms of discipline and surveillance. We explore how social workers are caught in the struggle between enforcement and relational welfare support. We consider how the illusio of social work obscures power dynamics impacting children, young people and families caught in child welfare systems, disproportionately affecting classed and racialised individuals.

Using a Strengths-Based Perspective to Change Perceptions: An Exploratory Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Karen Rice ◽  
Heather Girvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Change Perceptions ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Negative Perceptions

Child welfare is a field plagued with negative perceptions, which have the potential to influence how caseworkers approach their practice with families. As a result, a child welfare course emphasizing the strengths-based approach to practice with families was developed to better prepare students for engaging families and building a helping alliance. The researchers sought to examine whether this new course exerted a positive influence on undergraduate social work students' perception of the parent/caseworker relationship. Compared to undergraduate students not enrolled in this course, at post-test students enrolled in the Child Welfare course more positively perceived the parent/caseworker relationship than they did at pretest. Implications for social work practice and pedagogy are discussed.

Participation in Child Welfare Services Through Information and Communication Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Susan Tregeagle
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Social Work Interventions

Case management systems were designed to open the way for increased participation of young people and their families in child welfare interventions, and, their standardised format provides a valuable opportunity to use ICT in social work practice. Existing research is unclear about how effectively case management affects participation, nor, the impact of ICT on social work interventions. This paper describes the findings of qualitative research with service users about their experiences of case management and how ICT could further their involvement in critical decisions for families. Service users are keen to use ICT and this could help overcome the limitations of paper-based case management systems and exploit the communication potential of the internet and mobile phones. However, before ICT could be used, the complex ‘digital divide’ affecting disadvantaged families would need to be addressed and social workers’ understanding and current use of ICT would need to be explored.

Children: Practice Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony N. Maluccio
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
Child Guidance

Social work has a long tradition of direct practice with children in a range of settings, such as child welfare, child guidance, hospitals, schools, and neighborhood centers. This entry focuses on general principles and strategies for direct social work practice with preadolescents and, to a lesser extent, their families, within an eclectic conceptual framework.

Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Nygren ◽  
Julie C Walsh ◽  
Ingunn T Ellingsen ◽  
Alastair Christie
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we draw on focus group data collected from child welfare social workers in England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden to compare these different contextual changes and how these are reflected in related social work practice decisions. The focus group discussions were based on a vignette, and thematic analysis was applied. Overall, welfare social workers are aware of the need to support gender equality in parenting, there is a heavy focus on mothers in child welfare practice decisions, and fathers are largely absent. Uniquely, we show that this is influenced by both a strong child-centred perspective, and a gendered risk perspective, in which fathers are seen to pose more risk to the children than mothers.

Effective Child Welfare Institutions in Uganda: Prerequisite Organisational and Systems Attributes

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Omona
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
Globalising World

This article presents a review of the organisational and systems attributes that contribute to effective child welfare institutions in Uganda. The review was motivated by a baseline study of 29 child welfare institutions in Uganda which established that the institutions were generally not effective owing to the compromised quality of the services and care they give to children. The aim of this study is to broadly examine the characteristics of an effective organisation and systems of child welfare, specifically from an institutional perspective, in order to inform practice and contribute to promoting professional care of children in Uganda. The review was premised on organisational and systems theories. The review revealed that there are many organisational and systems characteristics that a child welfare institution should exhibit if it is to provide effective services to children. These characteristics are embedded within internal and external institutional processes. It was also found that these processes have a direct effect on the organisational outputs and the welfare of the children. The findings are deemed applicable to all social work contexts in this globalising world, where the principles of social work practice are the same. Though the problem that motivated the review is Uganda-based, the citations are predominantly United States-based because, despite their own flaws, the US institutions provide a model for child welfare services globally.

Prescience, Prophecy and Prayer

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Helen Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Children’S Homes ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Children's Grief

The work of Alan Keith-Lucas has informed theory and the ethical integration of faith and social work practice.  An early member of NACSW and prolific writer in child welfare services, religiously affiliated children’s homes, and social work practice and faith, Keith-Lucas developed theories on children’s grief and on effective helping that continue to provide prescient guidance in the field today.  This article, delivered as the 2018 Alan Keith-Lucas Lecture at the annual conference, applies the helping principles and work of Keith-Lucas to current issues of child welfare, social work education, racism, work with LGBTQ+ persons, and polarized discussions. Central to the article is the discussion of Keith-Lucas’ helping model of reality, empathy, and support.

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