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Child Welfare - -About safety. Children most vulnerable population; fewer rights; more programs
What is child welfare? - -All aspects or components of society essential for well-being of children.
--School Sy...
Child Welfare - ✔✔-About safety. Children most vulnerable population; fewer rights; more programs
What is child welfare? - ✔✔-All aspects or components of society essential for well-being of children.
--School System
--Medical Care
--Parks & Rec
--Public Safety
--Citizenship
As Social Work Practice - ✔✔-Child welfare concerned with special needs of children & families when:
--Parental functioning impaired
--Social problems such as poverty prevent effective parentng
--Child not able to function w/in family b/c developmental, emotional, behavioral problems
**Family preservation is the goal. Do what possible to make biological home work.
Child Welfare Services - ✔✔-Social svcs provided when dependency is created by problems in
functioning in the parent-child-community network.
--Is this social justice? (fair)
--Conservative or Liberal?
Child Maltreatment - ✔✔-Physical or mental parental behavior directed towards the child, either
committed (abuse) or omitted (neglect), which causes some physical or psychological harm to the child--
which is sufficiently serious to warrant intervention.
,Dysfunctional Parent/Child Relations - ✔✔---Parental Role Unoccupied (single parent)
--Parental Incapacity (i am sam)(mental/phys disability)
--Parental Role Rejection (didnt want child)
--Intrarole Conflict (btw caregivers: who does what)
Child Neglect - ✔✔-Lack of attention, remiss in care or treatment, or to omit through carelessness;
disregard essential needs of children or vulnerable family members.
Various Forms of Neglect - ✔✔---Inattention to physical needs (supervision; childproofing;
food/clothing/hygiene; safety)
--Inattention to educational needs (truancy; failure to enroll)
--Inattention to emotional/developmental needs (nurture/affection; permitting maladaptive behavior)
--Inattention to remedial healthcare concerns (delay/failure to seek care; refuse to provide care for
diagnosed condition)
Trends in Child Abuse Data - ✔✔---Gender: fairly even
--Social Class: occurs across all SES; poor have more risk factors; questionable #s b/c poor more likely to
be reported
,--Race: higher #s in minorities; reflection of SES not race b/c when income is controlled for minority #s
are lower than white
--Age: younger children are more vulnerable
Why does this happen? - ✔✔---Psychological (most common answer)
--Social (not always modeled but more @ risk if exposed)
--Cultural (allow violence directed toward children more than adults; part of rearing)(ruler example)
Individual Parent Factors Contributing to Abuse - ✔✔---Low self-esteem
--External Locus of Control (beyond their control; chance)
--Excessive dependency (on sys; learned helplessness)
--Impulsivity (developed superego)
--Lack of edu/knowledge abt proper parenting (development)
--Absence of conscience (lack of empathy; no remorse)
--Childhood deprivation (repeating pattern of own childhood)
--Social isolation (cut off; no participation/involvement)
Areas of Child Welfare: A Continuum of Care - ✔✔---Investigation & Safety Assessment (screen reports;
most important stage b/c determination of maltreatment)
--Family Preservation (keep homes together)
--Intensive case management
--Foster Care (limit 4) (1 per "therapeutic")
--Placement Development (ads; radio/tv; presentations)
--Adoption (most serious; lifelong implications)
Crime: A Simple Definition - ✔✔-Any behavior that is deemed as being against established law.
Conservative Perspective - ✔✔-Do the crime, do the time
You cannot be rehabilitated.
Punish; obey law
Liberal Perspective - ✔✔-We can rehabilitate you.
Look @ degree of crime
Radical Perspective - ✔✔-System sets up certain groups to fail
Punishment Approach - ✔✔-System should simply be to impose a penalty on the wrongdoer and to do
whatever is possible to right any wrong that has been done.
Variations of Punishment Approach - ✔✔---Retribution: imposition of penalty (eye for an eye)
--Restitution: do whatever possible to right any wrong done (pay victim back)
--Incapacitation: shield society from a criminal for as long as possible (most common)
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