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Mudd-Fegett, Kimberly N. "Exploration of child welfare through action research." Thesis, Capella University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10144741.
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Frontline child welfare workers are routinely called to assist victims of child abuse, domestic violence, and violent crimes. The images these workers face are increasingly leading to psychological effects from traumatic events that extend beyond those directly impacted. Frontline child welfare workers are at an increased risk of facing secondary trauma as they are tasked with experiencing violence vicariously on a daily basis while expected to transform to the onerous administrative requirements of their positions. In an effort to develop deeper understanding of long-term exposure to the impact of secondary trauma, action research was conducted with 75 frontline child welfare workers currently and previously employed by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. This mixed-method action research was conducted through an online questionnaire and face to face focus groups in which frontline workers participated in a partnership to seek positive change to improve the experiences and effectiveness of frontline child welfare workers. The goal of this research was to develop change through action research via a participatory, democratic research approach that encompassed the pursuit of practical knowledge. This research found that 66.70% of frontline child welfare workers in the region of study met the clinical diagnosis for posttraumatic stress disorder and these workers felt ill-equipped to address the traumas they faced. In partnership with frontline workers, data gathered through focus group discussions was used to develop online training to bring awareness, knowledge and focus to the imperative need to arm and safeguard child welfare workers against the devastating situations they face. It is clear through this study that frontline workers are often overlooked in the process of change and are left holding the negative consequences of the work they conduct with little appreciation for the sacrifices they make.
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Federico, Dino Ray. "Identifying the Experiences of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Rural Child Welfare Workers| Action Research Study." Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10261762.
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Secondary traumatic stress is the physiological reaction to vicarious traumatization. Public child welfare workers are exposed daily to the traumas of child maltreatment from neglect to death. Unlike other first responders, child welfare workers have continued exposure to the trauma of child maltreatment with every report, change in placement, and discussion. Rural child welfare workers have an added burden of issues common to both the children and families they serve, and to themselves as members of their communities: isolation, social proximity, dual relationships, remoteness, and fewer resources. In an effort to identify the experiences of secondary traumatic stress in rural child welfare workers in this study, eight child welfare workers were individually interviewed from two separate, remote, rural communities. Using semi-structured, open-ended questions, discussions of their experiences produced a wealth of data that was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The findings gave discovery that rural child welfare workers do experience secondary traumatic stress, and included symptoms such as: depression, frustration, exhaustion, sleeplessness, crying, hypervigilance, avoidance, guilt, loss of appetite, and more. Many of these symptoms were exacerbated by the characteristics of the remote, rural community as there were few outlets and venues for discussing and debriefing in privacy. Conclusions were rural child welfare agencies need to engage in providing trauma informed training and support to their workers, and include secondary trauma as part of their culture in supervision and management. Finally, several new resources are discussed which are available to agencies and staff from national child welfare institutes, agencies, and online publications.
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Featherstone, Brigid M., C. Ashley, C. Roskill, and S. White. "Fathers Matter: Research findings on fathers and their involvement in social care services." Family Rights Group, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2708.
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NoThis publication Fathers Matter is the culmination of a two year project which has looked at the largely neglected area of fathers involved with social care agencies because of child welfare needs or concerns. The publication includes a series of research reports, including new analyses of fathers¿ experiences, an international literature review and the results of a survey of local authorities. The publication considers the implications of this research and sets out clear recommendations for Children¿s Services Departments, health services and national government.
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Durham, Andrew. "Young men living through and with child sexual abuse : a practitioner research study." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4271/.
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Using an anti-oppressive life-story methodology, this research analyses the experience and impact of child sexual abuse on the lives of seven young men aged between 15 and 23. In recognising the sensitivity of the study, and that the young men's experiences are recent, particular attention is paid to the impact of the research and the relevance of social work practitioner research. The study advances an analytical framework, which draws on the tensions between structuralism and poststructuralism Theoretical connections are made between the centrality of sexuality and power in post-structuralism, and the nature of experiences of child sexual abuse. This framework has a wide application for future studies, and has particular implications for future non-pathologising social work practice with sexually abused young men. Asymmetrical power relationships are shown to be characteristic of child sexual abuse. The thesis argues that it is important to understand the diversity, and socially contextualised nature of the young men's experiences, in surviving the impact and aftermath of child sexual abuse. The thesis recognises the importance of understanding the resistance of the young men, and identifies some of the survival strategies they employed, in the extreme and adverse circumstances in which they became immersed. An oppressive context of patriarchal relations, characterised by compulsory heterosexism and homophobia has shaped and exacerbated the young men's harmful experiences. Internalised oppression and power relationships generate beliefs and subsequent responses which affirm and perpetuate oppressive social constructions, and consequent marginalisation. Through its anti-oppressive methodology, its analytical framework, and its use of prior substantive knowledge and experience, the study presents a strong and fresh link between research, social work practice and future research. In making this link, the study explicates the role and skills of the practitioner researcher, and thereby strengthens the academic discipline of social work.
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Melamid, Elan. "What works? integrating multiple data sources and policy research methods in assessing need and evaluating outcomes in community-based child and family service systems /." Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2002. http://www.rand.org/publications/RGSD/RGSD161/RGSD161.pdf.
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Vajdic-Pena, Andrea. "Long-Term Retention Among Child Welfare Workers in Michigan| A Phenomenological Study." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747883.
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High turnover of child welfare workers is a problem to the children and families that receive services and the child welfare organizations that lose their staff. For children and their families, turnover of their assigned worker may interrupt their ability to achieve their permanency goals. Child welfare organizations encounter high costs for hiring staff due to the turnover and the staff that remain suffer with higher caseloads and not being able to provide the quality of services that they should be able to offer. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of child welfare workers who remained with the same employer for 3 years or more. The conceptual framework consisted of 2 theories: organizational climate and organizational culture theory. Two focus groups, consisting of 3 participants from an urban community and 5 participants from a rural community, were used. A snowball sampling method was used to obtain the sample. A content analysis was conducted to discover major and minor themes. This study revealed that 5 factors contribute toward retention: a) caseload size; b) educational background and training; c) recruitment, screening, and selection; d) supervisory support; and e) peer support were supported by all 8 participants. In addition, a new factor of self-care emerged as a result of this study. While all the child welfare workers experienced all the factors that could have resulted in their turnover, due to implementation of self-care techniques they ended up remaining from 3 years to 13 years. Exploring self-care as an answer toward retention is worth exploring and can contribute toward social change in the field of child welfare.
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James-Scribner, Jason. "Developing an online learning community to connect private and public child welfare services with faith-based communities| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10099851.
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Child welfare agencies continue to be challenged in their separate and collaborative pursuits to achieve child safety, well-being, and permanence. The debate over separation of church and state is turning new corners with the recognition that collaboration between faith-based communities and public/private child welfare can exist and yield great benefits. Individual sovereignty of faith-based, non-profit, private, and public child welfare agencies can better provide for national mandates of child safety, well-being, and permanency by allowing every provider to fulfill its mission according to its own values. Greater collaboration should be viewed less as private and faith-based supplementation of public incapacity and more as a strategic partnerships that capitalizes on the strength of each public and private sectors. Online, competency-based learning communities hold great promise to provide discursive learning opportunities for the transfer of training and practice knowledge regarding faith-based partnerships to advance the mandates of child welfare.
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Anthony, Stephanie Nichole. "Teacher attributions, expectations, and referrals for students involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1426.
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The primary purpose of this study was to examine differences in the attributions teachers make toward students in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The study utilized vignettes and asked teachers to attribute the responsibility for declines in behavior and academic performance to one of five sources (the student, the parents, the teacher, the court system, or the student's friends). The study further asked teachers to identify the extent to which the changes were due to the student's internal traits and external factors, the likelihood of changes in behavior and academic performance with and without intervention, the teachers' beliefs about their ability to impact change, the amount of time the teachers reported being willing to spend with the students outside of class, and the likelihood of the student pursuing post-secondary education. Teachers were also asked to identify to whom they would first refer the student in the vignette for outside assistance due to declines in behavior and academic performance and then provide all referrals they would make.
A total of 224 certified 6th -12th grade teachers in the state of Iowa completed the vignette survey between January 2014 and April 2014. Results indicated that teachers made different attributions toward students on the basis of their involvement in either the child welfare or juvenile justice system. Specifically, teachers attributed the reason for behavioral and academic declines to different sources for students in the child welfare system, the juvenile justice system, and the control condition. Teachers were more likely to attribute academic and behavioral declines to internal factors for students in the juvenile justice system and external factors for students in the child welfare system. Teachers reported students in the juvenile justice system as least likely to change without intervention. The majority of teachers across the three conditions indicated their first referral would be to mental health services within the school. Teachers did not differ in the total number of referrals made, the amount of time until making the referral, the amount of time they would be willing to spend with the student outside of class time in order to impact change, their feelings of efficacy to impact change, and the likelihood of the student obtaining post-secondary education. Finally, limitations of the study are presented, suggestions for future research are discussed, and the implications of this study for teachers and school psychologists are discussed.
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Delgado, Steven Joseph, and Amanda Marie Fuerte. "CHILD WELFARE WORKERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON PLACEMENT INSTABILITY AND THE IMPACTS ON FOSTER YOUTH." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/661.
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In this study, the researchers explored child welfare workers’ perceptions on placement changes for youth in foster care and the impact these changes had on youths’ overall outcomes. Using a Post Positivist paradigm, qualitative research was completed using snowball-sampling procedures. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with sixteen members from their personal networks of child welfare social workers that have direct contact with foster youth. The research participants included current child welfare social workers from two counties in Southern California. The study’s findings suggest that children’s behaviors and foster parents’ reactions to those behaviors impacted placement changes. Further, participants felt that these changes significantly impacted youths’ educational outcomes. Participants identified a variety of interventions they used to try to mitigate placement changes, some with more or less success. Finally, workers identified barriers within the child welfare system, including communications and compensation, that might have an impact on placement changes. Implications for social work practice, policy and research are discussed.
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Bossard, Nicole R. "Enough Hope to Spare: The Transformative Experience of Birth Parents as Leaders in Child Welfare." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1311032360.
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Billings, Giovanni, and Michelle Moser. "Collaboration to Change the Trajectory for Child Welfare Involved Infants, Young Children, and Their Families: Implementation of Research Informed Infant Courts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7689.
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USA Infant Court is a multisystem, trauma-focused approach designed to address the complex needs of infants, toddlers, and their parents involved in the child welfare system and to improve outcomes. Infant mental health values and principles as well as knowledge areas such as the impact of trauma on early brain development, attachment theory, and trauma -informed care are integrated into the practice of infant courts. The core components of evidenced informed infant and early childhood courts will be reviewed. Presenters will describe two pilot infant court projects and the expansion of infant courts statewide through legislation.
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Zambrano, Nelly. "CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION IN RURAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/722.
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This research project examines resources and services to prevent families and children from entering the child welfare system in a rural town in Southern California. There is constant struggle to get the adequate services, resources and trained staff in this rural area because it is isolated and it takes about two hours’ travel time to get to the metropolitan cities. The literature review discusses child welfare services challenges, strengths and social capital to support families and children as well as the child welfare system itself in rural areas. Constructivism is the appropriate framework for this research project, because the goal of this study will be based on an exchange of understanding and ideas; therefore, the nature of the study is subjective. The engagement stage was an important stage for the constructivist approach. The researcher analyzed transcripts from the interviews and group meetings using thematic analysis to examine participants’ concerns and their perceptions of the community’s resources. Further, the participants, guided by the researcher, worked together to develop a strategic action plan to address child abuse and neglect in this community. This project encouraged community leaders to discuss the community’s strengths and main concerns related to child abuse and neglect. Interestingly, these strengths and concerns often mirror one another. Participants’ perceptions and recommendation are about safety, connectedness, human services access and child welfare of the focused rural town.
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Irwin, Mary Elizabeth (Molly). "The Impact of Race and Neighborhood on Child Maltreatment: A Multi-Level Discrete Time Hazard Analysis." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1246634898.
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Thesis(Ph.D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2009Title from PDF (viewed on 2009-11-23) Department of Social Welfare Includes abstract Includes bibliographical references and appendices Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center
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Munro, Emily R. "Balancing looked after children's protective, provisional and participatory rights in research, policy and practice." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17976.
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In England around 68,000 children are currently looked after by the state. Sixty two per cent of this population are admitted to care or accommodation in response to abuse and neglect. As the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child acknowledges, the state has a unique responsibility for these children and is expected to ensure their safety, wellbeing and development. Underpinned by a rights-based framework the publications in the thesis make an original contribution to social work research, policy and practice, in respect of looked after children nationally and internationally. Three cohering theoretical strands - the new sociology of childhood, attachment theory and focal theory, and different methodological lenses, (from participatory research with young people to cross-national analysis of administrative data), are employed to advance understanding of the balance of protective, provisional and participatory rights ( 3 Ps ) for these children and young people. The work focuses upon their life pathways at two key stages in the lifespan: early infancy and adolescence into adulthood. Consistent with the theoretical underpinnings of the research, the methodological approach employed in two of the four core studies sought to promote children s active participation in the research process, and to give them a voice . The participatory peer methodology adopted moved beyond involving care experienced young people in interviewing their peers, to training and engaging them in several major aspects of the research cycle, including analysis of the data and the design and write up of the findings, to produce accessible peer research reports for young people. At the national level the work undertaken demonstrates how a needs-based discourse, and orientation towards considering looked after children as objects of concern, can mean that young children s protective rights may be prioritised in policy and practice, at the expense of their provisional and participatory rights. Children s participation rights are also constrained due to assumptions about the (in)capacities of younger children to express their wishes and feelings. In this context parents rights tend to be prioritised at the expense of the rights of the child. Whereas parents rights may take precedence when children are young, in adolescence the rights of parents are more peripheral. Cross-national comparisons reveal variations in how young people s provisional, participatory and protective rights are balanced as young people negotiate the transition from care to adulthood in western societies, as well as different drivers for reform. Empirical research on recent policy developments in England also illuminates the tensions and dilemmas professionals can face as they attempt to protect and provide for young people, whilst recognising their evolving capabilities and their right to autonomy and active participation in decision making processes. Finally, the studies highlight that young people with the most complex care histories may be denied the right to decide for themselves if they want to remain in foster or residential care into early adulthood.
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Jackson, Vivian H. "An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Culture in Family Preservation and Kinship Care Services: An Africentric Translation." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=case1195303638.
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McDaniel, Beth, Silvia Vilches, and Allie Merritt. "Prevention, Protection, or Institutional Oppression? Exploring Family Well-Being and the Institution of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention in Alabama." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2020/schedule/15.
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Historically, child abuse and neglect (CAN) prevention efforts have focused on individuals and families, with disregard for the contexts and conditions that may underlie family challenges. There is increased recognition that efforts to support families and children must include focus on the societal level (Browne, 2014), yet few studies have examined how institutional processes influence community-based CAN prevention services. I utilized institutional ethnography to identify institutional factors that impact family well-being and CAN prevention work in Alabama. I relied on three primary forms of data: 1) focus group discussions; 2) interview discussions; and 3) analysis of key documents. Preliminary analysis indicates prevention work is diverse and occurs within a system of limited institutional and public support. I will discuss the specific institutional factors that influence child and abuse prevention work in Alabama and close with a discussion of how institutional ethnography can be used to strengthen family research and policy.
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Hearn, Jody. "Family preservation in families’ ecological systems: Factors that predict out-of-home placement and maltreatment for service recipients in Richmond City." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2086.
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Family preservation services are intended to prevent the out-of-home placement (into foster care or some other alternative arrangement) of children and youth in families at risk of maltreating them. An Ecological Systems perspective of these families might suggest that a family’s context (represented by the variables of poverty, agency services, family history, and individual/caretaker characteristics) must be considered as an over-arching influence in families’ risk and outcomes. The purpose of this cross-sectional secondary data analysis study was to identify layered factors that distinguish family preservation cases in Richmond, VA that experience removal or subsequent abuse or neglect from those that do not, in order to make recommendations about how services can be better directed to support families in caring for their children and youth. Using Hierarchical Discriminant Function Analysis, this research project evaluated the “predictive” values of the external conditions and internal characteristics of family recipients of the Richmond, Virginia Department of Social Services corollary to family preservation services on the outcomes of (a) successful case closure, (b) out-of-home placement during services, and (c) child maltreatment after case closure. Contextual factors (poverty), Agency factors (number of services and ratio of concrete services), Family factors (history of placement, chronicity of maltreatment, abuse risk score, and neglect risk score), and Individual/Caretaker factors (caretaker substance abuse, caretaker mental health, and family structure) were investigated. The findings of this study showed that poverty, agency characteristics, and family characteristics each directly explained substantial amounts of variance among the outcomes and that poverty, provision of concrete services, and a family history of foster care placement best distinguished among families experiencing these different outcomes. These findings highlight the need of family preservation programming to directly address conditions of poverty in abuse and neglect risk, and suggest that the services provided to the families need better targeting to families’ needs. Recommendations based on this study include the development of a theory-based, local-evidence-based model of services for family preservation services at the agency for which the research was conducted.
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Alatorre, Erika Yolanda, and Angelica Lemus. "Foster caregivers' opinions on the causes of multiple placements among foster children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2915.
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The purpose of the study was to gather data that could help minimize the number of placements that foster children often experience. The results of this study are intended to help California child welfare agencies and other foster care agencies develop additional policies that support the development of stable foster care placements for dependent children.
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Azong, Jecynta A. "Economic policy, childcare and the unpaid economy : exploring gender equality in Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22827.
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The research undertaken represents an in-depth study of gender and economics from a multi-disciplinary perspective. By drawing on economic, social policy and political science literature it makes an original contribution to the disciplines of economics and feminist economics by advancing ideas on a feminist theory of policy change and institutional design. Equally, the study develops a framework for a multi-method approach to feminist research with applied policy focus by establishing a pragmatic feminist research paradigm. By espousing multiple research philosophies, it extends understanding of gender differences in policy outcomes by connecting theories from feminist economics, feminist historical institutionalism and ideational processes. Jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council UK and the Scottish Government, this project attempts to answer three key questions: What is the relative position of men and women in the Scottish economy and how do childcare responsibilities influence these? Which institutions, structures and processes have been instrumental in embedding gender in Scottish economic policy? To what extent and how is the Scottish Government’s approach to economic policy gendered? Quantitative analysis reveals persistently disproportionate differences in men and women’s position in the labour market. Women remain over-represented in part-time employment and in the public sector in the 10years under investigation. Using panel data, the multinomial logistic regression estimation of patterns in labour market transitions equally reveal disproportionate gendered patterns, with families with dependent children 0-4years at a disadvantage to those without. Qualitative analysis indicates that these differences are partly explained by the fact that the unpaid economy still remains invisible to policymakers despite changes in the institutional design, policy processes and the approach to equality policymaking undertaken in Scotland. Unpaid childcare work is not represented as policy relevant and the way gender, equality and gender equality are conceptualised within institutional sites and on political agendas pose various challenges for policy development on unpaid childcare work and gender equality in general. Additionally, policymakers in Scotland do not integrate both the paid and unpaid economies in economic policy formulation since social policy and economic policy are designed separately. The study also establishes that the range of institutions and actors that make-up the institutional setting for regulating and promoting equality, influence how equality issues are treated within a national context. In Scotland, equality regulating institutions such as parliament, the Scottish Government, equality commission and the law are instrumental variables in determining the range of equality issues that are embedded in an equality infrastructure and the extent to which equality issues, including gender, are consequently embedded in public policy and government budgets. Significantly despite meeting all the attributes of an equality issue, unpaid care is not classified as a protected characteristic in the Equality legislation. These institutions can ameliorate, sustain or perpetuate the delivery of unequitable policy outcomes for men and women in the mutually dependent paid and unpaid economy. Thus, economic, social and political institutions are not independent from one another but are interrelated in complex ways that subsequently have material consequences on men and women in society. In summary, there are interlinkages between the law, labour market, the unpaid economy, the welfare state and gendered political institutions such that policy or institutional change in one will be dependent on or trigger change in another. These institutions are gendered, but are also interlinked and underpin the gender structure of other institutions to the extent that the gendered norms and ideas embedded in one institution, for example legislation or political institutions, structure the gendered dimensions of the labour market, welfare state, and the unpaid economy. By shedding light on institutional and political forces that regulate equality in addition to macroeconomic forces, the analysis reveals the important role of institutions, policy actors and their ideas as instrumental forces which constantly define, redefine and reconstruct the labour market experiences of men and women with significant material consequences.
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Garcia, Elisa. "Metaphoric Generative Genograms: A Journey to bring Genograms to life through metaphorical components." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/9.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to offer a greater understanding of the potential of genograms through my clinical work from a Bowen Family Systems lens. I account for how I processed and effectively blended metaphorical components, by examining six cases from my two-year journal entries, of bringing genograms to life in sessions. I also explain how I created a useful tool, the Metaphoric Generative Genogram, that can benefit other clinicians working with children and families in the foster care community.
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Torres, Ospina Sara. "Uncovering the Role of Community Health Worker/Lay Health Worker Programs in Addressing Health Equity for Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada: An Instrumental and Embedded Qualitative Case Study." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23753.
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“Why do immigrants and refugees need community health workers/lay health workers (CHWs) if Canada already has a universal health care system?” Abundant evidence demonstrates that despite the universality of our health care system marginalized populations, including immigrants and refugees, experience barriers to accessing the health system. Evidence on the role of CHWs facilitating access is both lacking and urgently needed. This dissertation contributes to this evidence by providing a thick description and thorough analytical exploration of a CHW model, in Edmonton, Canada. Specifically, I examine the activities of the Multicultural Health Brokers Co-operative (MCHB Co-op) and its Multicultural Health Brokers from 1992 to 2011 as well as the relationship they have with Alberta Health Services (AHS) Edmonton Zone Public Health. The research for this study is based on an instrumental and embedded qualitative case study design. The case is the MCHB Co-op, an independently-run multicultural health worker co-operative, which contracts with health and social services providers in Edmonton to offer linguistically- and culturally-appropriate services to marginalized immigrant and refugee women and their families. The two embedded mini-cases are two programs of the MCHB Co-op: Perinatal Outreach and Health for Two, which are the raison d’être for a sustained partnership between the MCHB Co-op and AHS. The phenomenon under study is the Multicultural Health Brokers’ practice.
I triangulate multiple methods (research strategies and data sources), including 46 days of participant and direct observation, 44 in-depth interviews (with Multicultural Health Brokers, mentors, women using the programs, health professionals and outsiders who knew of the work of the MCHB Co-op and Multicultural Health Brokers), and document review and analysis of policy documents, yearly reports, training manuals, educational materials as well as quantitative analysis of the Health Brokers’ 3,442 client caseload database. In addition, data include my field notes of both descriptive and analytical reflections taken throughout the onsite research. I also triangulate various theoretical frameworks to explore how historically specific social structures, economic relationships, and ideological assumptions serve to create and reinforce the conditions that give rise to the need for CHWs, and the factors that aid or hinder their ability to facilitate marginalized populations’ access to health and social services.
Findings reveal that Multicultural Health Brokers facilitate access to health and social services as well as foster community capacity building in order to address settlement, adaptation, and integration of immigrant and refugee women and their families into Canadian society. Findings also demonstrate that the Multicultural Health Broker model is an example of collaboration between community-based organizations and local systems in targeting health equity for marginalized populations; in particular, in perinatal health and violence against women. A major problem these workers face is they provide important services as part of Canada’s health human resources workforce, but their contributions are often not recognized as such. The triangulation of methods and theory provides empirical and theoretical understanding of the Multicultural Health Brokers’ contribution to immigrant and refugee women and their families’ feminist urban citizenship.
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Wen, Liu Shyue, and 劉學文. "Military-Welfare-Product station service quality and consumer satisfaction research." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51024711781955905737.
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公共管理與社區發展研究所碩士在職專班
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Executive Summary In line with Executive Yuan’s “Government Reengineering” movement, the military has implemented a “Streamlining Project” that aims at reviewing and enhancing management policy, structure, personnel organization, etc. To improve quality control and upgrade efficiency as well as in pursuit of innovation and breakthrough, management systems of private enterprises are introduced, various management policies, such as Unity Circle, Risk Management, are implemented. However, management styles focusing on quality and personnel values are very different from traditional management thinking. This study researches on General Welfare Service Ministry’s welfare items supply stores, which are similar to civil retail industry and are under the supervision of General Political Warfare Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and conducts a study on the product quality, service quality and their relationship to customer satisfaction. This study uses PZB model developed by Zeithaml, Parasurman and Berry in 1988. Field studies were conducted on the customers. The study discovered that the there are substantial differences of service quality on population variables. Therefore it is concluded that there is considerable room for improvement on customer satisfaction toward the General Welfare Service Ministry’s welfare items stores. Under the government’s “Administrative Innovation” policy, MWSM actively elevates service quality of welfare items supply stores and non-staple foods supply stores. Customer-orientated is being set as the goal. However, flexible management in price negotiation and selling authorization is not fully implemented. A supervisory unit that monitors efficiency has not been established. There is a lack of customer satisfaction score chart that periodically surveys customers’ responses as a basis for understanding customers’ needs and improves operational weaknesses. These should all be taken into consideration as a basis for setting up follow-up policies so as to remain competitive and to truly achieve the goal of enhancing service quality. Efforts of all related departments are required to push military welfare system to a new era and provide better and more complete services.
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Bhana, Asna. "A marketing strategy for child welfare, Boksburg." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5440.
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M.A.Nonprofit organisations are facing a crisis of survival. The changing face of funding through the implementation of financial reform measures on government funding, new expectations from donors, decline in regular private donations and new forms of competition have all contributed to the financial constraints facing the Organisation under study. In addition, the emphasis on transforming services to embrace the developmental, strengths based approach, as well as the growing demand for services from the users themselves have called for the Organisation to reposition itself if it wants to not only survive but to succeed as well. This study focused on the Boksburg Child Welfare Society and was based on a need to develop an intervention tool that will enable the Organisation to address these changes in a creative and innovative manner. Thomas (in Grinne1,1981:591) calls for a new methodology, one where new energies can be directed to the changing tasks and methods of Social Work. Within a changing environment, a strategy in nonprofit marketing is the tool that will provide organisations with the impetus to not only work creatively but to think differently…
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Liu, Guang-yu, and 劉光裕. "The research on Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction of Armed Forces welfare station commissioned by outsourcing －The example of Armed Forces 503 welfare station laundry department." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93953666006672562685.
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碩士國立中山大學
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As the take-off of ROC Economy and development of living quality of Taiwanese residents, Ministry of National Defense also began to focus on military benefits as governance emphasis, which also turned out an efficient way for each commanding officer to lead their troops. As foregoing, ROC Armed Forces widely establish Armed Forces welfare station in troops, providing variety of living necessity to soldiers. They may focus on army operational readiness training and be comfortable for living. Armed Forces welfare station unites several services and distributes daily necessity in military camp, including laundry, tailoring, hair-cutting, photo-developing, seal-engraving, dining, etc. It was hosted by Armed Forces in the beginning. Until 1998, the ROC Armed Forces supplied special fund to Armed Forces welfare station; all the operations are fully outsourced in order to increase efficiency and service quality. This study will target the personnel in Naval Recruit Training Center(NRTC) as questionnaire’ samples and explore the service quality and customers’ satisfaction of Armed Forces 503 welfare station. The correlation of the samples in this study is adapted to Parasuraman（1988）and “Customer Satisfaction and Customer Experience” of Zeithaml & Bitner（2000）This study will be evaluated the service quality to the laundry section of Armed force 503 station with SERVQUAL framework and SPPS statistical program; analyzed valid questionnaires and explored the vivid interrelationship between service quality and customers’ satisfaction. Excellent service quality may advance customers’ satisfaction.
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Mannheimer, Katarina Ahlström. "A research and development approach to behavioral parent training in child welfare /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3019947.
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Li, Yang-Tzu, and 李仰慈. "A Research of the Family Welfare Demand for Long-Term Respirator Dependant Child." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19703407474872515290.
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碩士中國文化大學
青少年兒童福利研究所
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The welfare of long-term respirator dependant child (LTRDC) family is becoming more and more demanded, but it is hard to find any research paper concerning this aspect in Taiwan. Therefore, the researcher attempts to investigate theexistence problems in LTRDC family, the welfare demand of LTRDC family and the welfare actual requested by the LTRDC family. The conclusion of this research will be provided to government and relevant organizations for reference. The investigation cases of LTRDC family mainly got from the member hospitals of CRC and some from home care LTRDC family. Since LTRDC cases are not quite command in Taiwan, it is not easy to have many samples for research. Therefore, personal interview with every person who actually cares LTRDC in family was taken in order to get study cases as many as possible. Totally 110 cases including 5 invalid cases were got in interview. In order to analyze data from investigation, the social science statistic software SPSS for window version 11.0 was used as analysis tool. The result of analysis was as follows. For frequencies and percentage analysis, in the analysis of existence problem in LTRDC family, “social participant problem” dominate.“information need” is main demand of family welfare need. And, actual welfare request mostly is “Financial request”. In significant analysis, “LTRDC sickness” to “financial problem”, “family structure” to “financial problem” and “family structure” to “leisure and care request” present more significant variance. From stepwise regress analysis, though there are significant correlation exist between family existence problem and family welfare need, and between family existence problem and welfare actual requested, but owning to weakness determination (small R square) it is not suitable to predict family welfare need and welfare actual requested by family existence problem. After data analysis, suggestion from researcher was stated here. (Base on Ecological system theory) From micro-system point of view: 1. LTRDC is strongly influenced by micro-system especially by interaction with their parents. Therefore, training for how to take care of LTRDC plays an important role. In this consideration, social worker may be arranged to assist parents for getting along with their children and for relieve their pressure. 2. In order to serve the family with low income, flexible service charge should be considered according to each family’s situation by welfare organization through the government’s support. From meso-system point of view: 1. Government should provide LTRDC family to have part time job easily, then parents can both make living and take care of LTRDC. 2. Provide LTRDC family home attendance training, especially LTRDC using respirator within half a year. If other members in family know how to take care of LTRDC, the pressure of parents could be relieved. From exo-system point of view: 1. Establish long-term and temporary care center to provide long-term and temporary service for LTRDC family. It also could facilitate family enjoy their free time. 2. Encourage parents to take part in support group. They could share their experience in support group. Also, provide LTRDC parents the opportunity to participate self-growth course. 3. Welfare organization should play the supplement and support role. Provide service to LTRDC family by using Case Management method. From macro-system point of view: 1. Enthusiastically provide related information concerning how to reach welfare, which makes the LTRDC family understand their right and know how to apply welfare. 2. Provide funds to medical care unit initiatively through government and public donation, to lower down service charge for LTRDC family with unemployment or low income. 3. Establish integrated notification system. Combine notification system and Family service program to provide LTRDC family initiatively.
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Gosek, Gwendolyn M. "The aboriginal justice inquiry-child welfare initiative in manitoba: a study of the process and outcomes for Indigenous families and communities from a front line perspective." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8924.
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As the number of Indigenous children and youth in the care of Manitoba child welfare steadily increases, so do the questions and public debates. The loss of children from Indigenous communities due to residential schools and later on, to child welfare, has been occurring for well over a century and Indigenous people have been continuously grieving and protesting this forced removal of their children. In 1999, when the Manitoba government announced their intention to work with Indigenous peoples to expand off-reserve child welfare jurisdiction for First Nations, establish a provincial Métis mandate and restructure the existing child care system through legislative and other changes, Indigenous people across the province celebrated it as an opportunity for meaningful change for families and communities. The restructuring was to be accomplished through the Aboriginal Justice Initiative-Child Welfare Initiative (AJI-CWI).
Undoubtedly, more than a decade later, many changes have been made to the child welfare system but children are still been taken into care at even higher rates than before the changes brought about by the AJI-CWI. In order to develop an understanding of what has occurred as a result of the AJI-CWI process, this study reached out to child welfare workers who had worked in the system before, during and after the process was put in place. Using a storytelling approach based in an Indigenous methodology, twenty-seven child welfare workers shared how they perceived the benefits, the deficits, the need for improvement and how they observed the role of Indigenous culture within the child welfare context. The stories provide a unique insight into how the changes were implemented and how the storytellers experienced the process, as well as their insights into barriers, disappointments, benefits and recommendations for systemic change.Graduate
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WANG, SHU-CHEN, and 王淑楨. "Research of Children welfare and family child support need Case studies of children require child allowance in Taipei Datong District." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12456642736408719759.
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碩士中國文化大學
青少年兒童福利研究所碩士在職專班
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The studies focus on understanding the need of children welfare and family childcare benefits, and examine the differences and relevance in demand for child welfare and childcare benefit in respect to children’s gender, children’s age, the parent’s gender, the parent’s education level, and the number of children in the family. The studies use children of those, whom is on child support, of Taipei Ta Tung District of age zero to age six, and deploy ‘children welfare demand chart’, and ‘family child support demand chart’ as research tools, moreover, the percentage, occurrence distribution, T chart, ANOVA, Pearson accumulated rate and the multi-dimensional stepwise regression analysis will be used as a statistic method as well. The research findings are explained as below I. The child welfare studies base on the differences of children background variable, and family background variable. 1.Research shows significant differences in the children welfare demand by child of deferent age for economical subsides. 2.Research shows significant differences in the children welfare demand by child of different gender for economical support and health support. 3.Research shows significant differences in the children welfare demand by different family type for education support of children. 4. Research shows significant differences in the children welfare demand by parents in different gender for economical support. 5.Research shows significant differences in the children welfare demand by parents of various education levels for economical support and leisure support. 6.Research shows significant differences in the children welfare demand by families with various child counts for economical support and health support. II. The childcare benefit studies base on the differences of children background variable, and family background variable. 1. Research data indicates significant differences in the family childcare benefits demand by different gender of children for economical support, childcare support and accomplishment support. 2. Research data indicates significant differences in the family childcare benefits demand by children of different age for economical support, childcare support and social support. 3.Research data indicates significant differences in the family childcare benefits demand by different family types for economical support, childcare support, accommodation and home stay support, parenting education support, social bonding support, and space support. 4.Research data indicates significant differences in the family childcare benefits demand by parents of different gender for economical support, and social support. 5 Research data indicates significant differences in the family childcare benefits demand by parents with different education level for economical support, childcare support, parenting education support, social bonding support. 6. Research data indicates significant differences in the family childcare benefits demand by families with various child counts for economical support, childcare support, parenting education support, social bonding support. III. The analysis regarding to child care benefit and child education need There will be four scales about child care benefit and six scales regarding to child education benefit, except accomplishment, it reaches standard and presents the connection, which means child care benefit and child education benefit are related. IV. The regression analysis about child benefit need and child care benefits 1. In the children welfare demands for financial aids requirements, there's a 3.8 % prediction quota correlated to children's gender and 3.7% predictions quota correlated to children's age, the sum of these two prediction quotas is 7.5% 2. In the children welfare demands for leisure need, there is a 4.0％ prediction quota correlated to parents’ education level. 3. In the children welfare demands for health need, there is a 2.6% prediction quota correlated to the number of children in a family. 4. In the children welfare demands for economical subsides, there is a 3.9% prediction quota correlate to children’s age, and 1.7% prediction quota correlate to children’s gender, the sum of these prediction quota is 5.6%. 5.In the children welfare demands for childcare need, there is a 5.9% prediction quota correlated to children’s age, 3.3% correlated to parents’ education level, and 2.5% correlated to children’s gender. The sum of the prediction quota is 11.7%. 6.In the children welfare demands for child education, there is a 5.8% prediction quota in the number of children of a family. In the conclusion, the researcher would like to raise suggestions aimed at Taipei Education Bureau, Sanitation Bureau, Social Bureau and parents, in order to satisfy the every need of children, as well as the benefit need of a family when they raise their children Key word: children, children financial subsides, child benefit need, child care benefit need
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"Maternal Trauma in a Child Welfare Context: Symptomology, Adult Attachment, and Parenting Style." Doctoral diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29938.
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abstract: Traumatic events have deleterious effects biologically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively. Events may include violence, neglect, and abuse and are best understood through a lifecourse perspective. Preventable and treatable, traumatic exposure promotes the development of trauma symptoms including avoidance, hyperarousal, increased fear, intrusive experiences, and aggression/violence. Trauma symptomology is thought to be an underlying cause of child maltreatment and intergenerational cycles of abuse/neglect. Traumatic symptoms may interfere with the ability to work, function, and care for young children and may accompany a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) diagnosis.
Although these experiences are known to be harmful, little research has focused on experiences of mothers involved in the child welfare system with young children (< 5 years). Subsequently, this study explored maternal experiences of trauma whilst calculating one of the first PTSD estimates. Types of trauma exposure, age of exposure, and event details were explored alongside history of substance use, domestic violence, and mental illness. Trauma symptom type, severity, and frequency were assessed. Utilizing adult attachment as a partial mediator, relationships between trauma exposure, trauma symptoms, and parenting were examined.
Supported by a university-community collaboration within the Safe Babies Court Teams Program in Maricopa County, Arizona, this study is exploratory and cross-sectional. A convenience sample of child welfare involved mothers (N = 141) with young children were recruited who were new clinical intakes with open court dependencies. Data on child/adult traumatic events, trauma symptoms, adult attachment, and parenting were collected. Results indicated high rates of complex/chronic trauma, specifically domestic violence and physical/sexual abuse. Mothers experienced higher than average childhood adversity/emotional abuse with significant overlap between trauma exposure and reduced mental health. PTSD rates ranged from 35-39%. Adult attachment did not to mediate trauma on parenting behaviors however strong and significant direct effects were found. Insecure-disorganized and insecure-resistant were the most dominant attachment styles.
Overall, these findings indicate the complex lifecourse nature of trauma exposure and the need to pay special attention to mental health and domestic violence histories in child welfare involved mothers of young children. Implications for social work practice, policy, and research are presented and provide impetus for continued future work.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Social Work 2015
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Lo, Hsin-Fa, and 羅新發. "An Emperical Research of Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction between Military-Welfare-Product station and Supermarkets—An Example based on Taipei City." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68821585924934705064.
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碩士元智大學
管理研究所
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The research wants to discuss the relationship of service quality and customer satisfaction between Military-Welfare-Product station and supermarket of Taipei City. Therefore, the purposes of our thesis are four fold: 1.To test the relationship between service quality and customer satiafaction. 2.To test the difference between the importance degree and the satisfaction degree of service quality. 3.To investigate if there are significant difference between service quality and satisfaction with regard to personal attribute varibles. 4.To discuss the difference of service quality between Military-Welfare-Product station and supermarket. The result showed that there were significant differences between service quality and customer satisfaction with regard to customers with different attributes of Military-Welfare-Product station. Besides, there are significant difference between the perception of importance and satisfaction of service quality. Finally, there are significant difference of the perception of service quality between Military-Welfare-Product station and supermarket.
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Lang, Shannon. "Child abuse and decision-making in South Africa : a grounded theory exploration." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3403.
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It was recommended by the American Psychological Association and the American Bar Association in October 1999, that the time had come for psychologists to do more than act as expert witnesses, and that their influence should be felt " ... at the first level of intervention" (Foxhall, 2000, p. 1). The first level of intervention is considered, in this study, to be the decision-making process. This research examines the decision-making
processes used by four of the disciplines integral to the child abuse multi-disciplinary team. Social workers, child protection officers of the South African Police Services, psychologists and prosecutors currently involved in the child abuse arena in South Africa were given case vignettes to anchor their decision-making on simulated examples. On the basis of these in-depth interviews, using a Grounded Theory methodology, three specific questions are addressed, namely: how decisions are made and substantiated; how they differ across disciplines; and how they compare to
recommended protocol. Results indicate interesting differences across these four disciplines. The differences between the decision-making processes in the disciplines seem to be rooted in their philosophical tenets, which give rise to specific aims in addressing child abuse. Differences between the decision-making processes and recommended protocol were also noted in cases where guidelines are available. In addition differences in expected outcomes of the vignettes, use ofassumptions and a
level of mistrust between professionals was shown. If this research can help to sensitise professionals to begin to understand their own decision-making processes and those of their fellow decision-makers, then perhaps key role players and policy makers may be one step closer to responding to the challenge of child sexual abuse in South Africa.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2002.
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Els, Riaan Charl. "Towards the integration of child protection services in South Africa : a national situation analysis." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11041.
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M.A. (Sociology)South Africa's child protection system is widely reported to be in disarray, delivering deficient and fragmented services, which facilitate the occurrence of 'secondary abuse, compounded by the lack of information on the prevailing scenario in the country. This research study formed part of a national development project, aimed at investigating and improving the delivery of integrated child protection services. The study focused on the current levels of service delivery and the need for services integration in a multi-disciplinary, intersectoral system. Employing a multi-methodology Intervention Research strategy, the conceptual framework for the investigation was based on an open systems perspective. The research findings, generated by a national situation analysis of provincial and sectoral service providers, confirmed the interrelated prevalence of both inefficient service delivery levels and the urgent need for the integration of services. The results facilitated the drafting of provincial strategies, aimed at the improvement of service delivery and the inductive construction of a generic provincial model, while a national conference of service providers generated a proposed national integration strategy, based on a process model. The research has not only contributed towards the integration of child protection services, but also to the current transformation of the child protection system in South Africa.
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Gomez, Rebecca Jean. "Understanding emerging adulthood from the perspective of those transitioning from foster care and those experiencing homelessness : the role of policy in supporting competency during the transition to adulthood." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22028.
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The unsatisfactory achievement of adult competency among emerging adults aging out of foster care is well documented. However few studies have examined how development within the child welfare system impacts the ability to achieve competence. In this study, homeless emerging adults who had not aged out of foster care were compared to peers who were homeless and aged out of foster care. The child welfare system is a unique environment with its own policies. In order to better understand the process of development within the child welfare system, the current study used life course developmental theory to understand how the child welfare system affects the development of children and their ability to achieve competencies. Specifically, the role of learned helplessness in influencing the developmental trajectory of children aging out of foster care was examined. The data were collected utilizing participatory action research methods and the use of this methodology among homeless emerging adults is explored.
The current study analyzes data collected by the Texas Network of Youth Services. The study examined issues surrounding the transition to adulthood among homeless emerging adults using a participatory action research methodology. The sample included emerging adults 18 to 25 years old who were homeless (n=134). A subset of the sample aged out of foster care. The results indicated that, 1) homeless emerging adults who have not aged out of foster care may be an appropriate comparison group for those who have aged out, 2) homeless emerging adults who aged out of foster care were more likely to have a perception of learned helplessness that may impede their ability to achieve adult competency when compared to those who did not age out of foster care, and 3) despite receiving services to prepare them for adulthood, homeless emerging adults who aged out of foster care had just as much difficulty achieving adult competency as their homeless peers who did not receive these services. Finally, results showed that the use of participatory action research among homeless emerging adults may be a promising approach for future research. Participants expressed feeling empowered and having perceptions that indicated self-efficacy. This indicated that this type of methodology may be promising in altering perceptions of learned helplessness.text
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Lin, Chia-Te, and 林家德. "Narrative research of the professional commitment of social worker～a study of the adopted social worker of Child Welfare League of TaiwanNarrative research of the professional commitment of social worker～a study of the adopted social worker of Child We." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44975931862810621191.
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碩士中國文化大學
心理輔導研究所
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Narrative research of the professional commitment of social worker ～a study of the adopted social worker of Child Welfare League of Taiwan Prepared by: Chia-Te Lin Thesis qualified month and year: June, 2005 Adviser: Dr. Pei Yang Oral examiner: Hsiu-Lan Tien Ying-Chi Ho The research participants of this study comprise of four adopted social workers from Child Welfare League of Taiwan, this study aims at understanding the development process of professional commitment in the procedure for adopted performed by the adopted social worker of Child Welfare League of Taiwan, the result of this study is going to be used as reference for domestic social work professional in helping social worker in developing professional commitment. The research method adopted in this study is the narrative research of qualitative research, first, analysis method of “Holistic-content” is used to clarify the whole impression of adopted working experience of social workers, then try to realize from individual event the different topics in the procedures for adopted in order to integrate the whole meaning of the story of social worker; besides, analysis method of “Categorical-content” is used clearly define and display the origin, professional process, experience process, the professional commitment achieved and the development process of professional commitment of the social worker. Through the data analysis, we obtain the following results: 1. The four research participants choose the procedure for adopted due to six source effects (professional education of social work, social group experience, family factor, birth order, personality feature and prior working experiences), they have to face the subsequent professional commitment process, besides, sources are interconnected with each other and will interact to each other too. 2. The professional process for the four research participants in performing procedure for adopted is a continuous process of performing job relevant to his/her adopted job professional feature by the social worker. After the adopted social worker experiences this professional process, he/she can enhance his/her own adopted job experience, professional knowledge and special skills, the four research participants finally become adopted social workers who can effectively achieve adopted professional goal. 3. The display of experience process by the four research participants in the procedures for adopted such as: epiphany, significant people, key event, stresses and problems, etc. has reflected in certain degree the work situation faced by the adopted social worker in the procedures for adopted. Once the research participants have found the solution through himself/herself or through the hint from significant people, it will help the social worker to show job stability in the procedure for adopted, stay in the current job position continuously and has the willing to give professional commitment for the procedure for adopted. 4. The personal new understanding by the four research participants on the procedure for adopted has shown the job focus and working direction on the procedure for adopted by each person, finally, professional commitment of six adopted related perspectives is displayed in the adopted real situation (professional identification, aggressive involvement, group attachment, acceptance of rules or norms, internalization of professional roles expectation behavior, buildup of professional relationship). 5. To summarize, we find that the processes of the development of professional commitment include: The four research participants participate the procedure for adopted to provide service according to the different sources in the prior life experience, during the period, they receive professional process from Child Welfare League of Taiwan and develop their own unique working experience process, they continuously display participants’ personal new understanding on the procedure for adopted and finally achieve the professional commitment required by procedure for adopted. Besides, we find that the process of the professional commitment of the four research participants is an interleaved operation of six steps such as:“ startup” according to adaptation period, “reception” according to stability period, “transfer” according to fatigue period, “reception” according to re- adaptation period, “combination” according to maintaining period, “startup” according to future expectation period. Finally, topic discussion following the research results will be performed, the research process will be re-thought and suggestion will be made to be used as reference for the real situation and future related studies.
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Kuo, Jun-Yi, and 郭軍毅. "A Study of the Relationships among Volunteer Education and traing, Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment for Non-Profit Organizations : An Empirical Research of Child Welfare Agencies in Tainan Area." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p75xj6.
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碩士長榮大學
經營管理研究所
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Non-profit organization is an independent, autonomous and non-governmental characteristics of public organizations. In recent years, the main reason for the rise of non-profit organization, is the response from citizens on the government is unable to rally the public's needs and look forward to by the public and public interest groups to direct the public to take action to improve the quality of public services. The same, social welfare organizations for non-profit organizations, part of the "children are the future masters of country," the cognitive, the child welfare agencies have been many non-profit organizations, besides religious non-profit organizations rather than typical classes. On the non-profit organization is the most important human resources, this study captured the three important constructs of human resources management ,there are education and training, job involvement and organizational commitment. Therefore ,this study select the child welfare agencies to verify the relationships among three constructs. In this study, the researcher chose the volunteers of child welfare agencies in Tainan area as subjects. After using stratified and purposive sampling, there were 138 effective questionnaires returned among 200 questionnaires distributed. The data were analyzed by a variety of statistical methods, such as regression analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation, hierarchical regression analysis and ANOVA to testify the hypotheses of this study and fit-appropriation model of theory building. According to the research, the following conclusions are obtained:1. Education and training—job involvement,job involvement—organizational commitment, and education and training—organizational commitment have a significant and positive correlation and influence between the two constructs. 2. Education and training, job involvement, have some significant difference in some individuals.
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"An Exploration of Bias in Arizona’s Foster and Adoption Agencies." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44288.
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abstract: The Arizona state child welfare system has recently experienced an increase in the number of children and youth living in out-of-home care. A lack of licensed foster homes has resulted in many of these children residing in congregate care. This study sought to determine what role, if any, personal and policy bias against five demographic groups (i.e., ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status for individuals and couples, and educational level) plays in this insufficiency of foster homes. In this pilot study a group of foster and adoption licensing agency executives and directors (n=5) were surveyed and qualitatively interviewed with the aim of discerning if bias is present at the personal and agency policy levels and to seek input for a future study with direct-service staff. Results indicate a discrepancy between personal and policy bias within agencies. Additionally, evidence suggests a policy bias which results in unmarried couples and single parents being perceived as inferior placement options. Implications for future research are discussed.Dissertation/Thesis
Masters Thesis Social Work 2017
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Gerrand, Priscilla. "An African community's attitude towards modern, western adoption." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7189.
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M.A.South Africa has thousands of destitute children without families to care for them. The bulk of such children are, at this time, born to impoverished and destitute African women. Many such children have been abandoned. In the years to come we must in addition expect a huge influx of children whose parents have died from or become incapacitated by Aids. These children will also need families to care for them. Adoption is an effective way of creating permanent homes for these children. However, there is currently a dearth of prospective African adopters in the Gauteng Province. Numerous assumptions have been put forward to explain this problemsituation. Some people think that it may be related to traditional norms of the African culture which emphasize the importance of blood ties when it comes to family building. In traditional African culture it was inconceivable that blood ties could be extinguished, or that someone totally strange, let alone someone from a different clan, could parent your child. The majority of modern, western adoptions, involve the legal adoption of children who are not related in any way to the people adopting them. An adoption order vests the parental rights and duties in the adopters and is irrevocable. The adoption order extinguishes natural parental rights with respect to any other person vis-a'-vis the child. Mother cause for concern, is the fact that when African adopters legally adopt children, the majority tend to very secretative about the whole affair. They usually do not acknowledge the adopted child's biological origins because they wish to protect the child and themselves from a negative response by the general community. It is important to tell children they are adopted because children have a right to the truth about themselves. Enduring relationships are built on honesty, not deception. When there has been secrecy in a family about adoption, everyone suffers. The community has a responsibility to provide support and resources to families formed by adoption. Recognizing that support from the community for an adoption service will not be forthcoming unless the community is positively oriented towards such a service, this study seeks to explore and describe the contemporary attitudes of an African community towards the concept of modern, western adoption. The Soweto community is the largest African community in South African. In order to explore the attitudes of people in this community towards the concept of modern, western adoption, a descriptive survey has been conducted. A sample of 163 people was drawn from the Vista University and the Soweto Home for the Aged. A selfadministered questionnaire was used as the method for data collection. Although generalizations to the greater African population cannot be made because a non-probability sampling method was used in this study, findings indicate that the majority of community members in Soweto probably have a positive attitude towards the concept of modern, western adoption. It is hoped that this attitude will have a directive influence on their future behaviour. There must thus be an ongoing effort to expand adoption opportunities for African children in need of permanent homes and members of the community must be directly involved in these efforts.
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Batista, Tara. "Empowering Foster Care Youth." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D88W3BFK.
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This study explores various youth empowerment programs for young people aging out of foster care in the U.S. Youth Empowerment Programs (YEPs) are interventions that encourage youth to make meaningful decisions about program design, implementation, and/or evaluation. This dissertation employed three methods to contribute to the evidence-base on the effect of YEPs for youth aging out of foster care: a qualitative historical study, a comprehensive literature review, and a quantitative cross-sectional survey that utilized a contemporaneous comparison group.
The historical study examined the different program aspects of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) to see if there were any empowering parts. CAS was the precursor to the modern day foster care system in the U.S. The study found that much of the programming that occurred in the Boys Lodging Houses in New York City could be classified as youth-led or youth-informed. Specifically, the children's bank, lending library, and military cadet companies provide detailed examples of youth participating in meaningful programmatic decision-making. Other program aspects in the boys lodging houses could be classified as youth dominated or anarchical. The child placement process was found to be disempowering. There was very little evidence of younger children and girls engaging in programmatic decision-making.
The literature review included four studies from 2,631 potentially relevant titles and abstracts. Three of the four studies were qualitative and no randomized controlled trials were found, thus meta-analysis was not possible. The review found that the state of the evidence of the effectiveness of YEPs for youth aging out of foster care is sparse and methodologically weak. All four studies found that YEP participation improved various youth development outcomes. One study reported three iatrogenic effects for a subset of youth.
The cross-sectional survey examined the level of psychological empowerment of 193 foster care alumni (ages 18-25) who did (n= 99) and did not (n=94) participate in at least one YEP in Florida. Those who participated in a YEP experienced significantly higher perceived control (B = .25, p =.007), motivation to influence their environments (B = .30, SE B =.09, p =.001), self-efficacy for socio-political skills, and participatory behavior (B = .586, SE B= .136, p =.000), than non-YEP participants even when controlling for age at program entry, gender, race, time in foster care, number of placements, and Pinellas County location.
Findings from this dissertation suggest that youth empowerment is possible in child welfare and might be beneficial. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Mellor, Andrea Faith Pauline. "“Day by day: coming of age is a process that takes time”: supporting culturally appropriate coming of age resources for urban Indigenous youth in care on Vancouver Island." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13118.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s first call to action is to reduce the number
of Indigenous children and youth in care, including keeping young people in culturally
appropriate environments. While we work towards this goal, culturally appropriate
resources are needed to support children and youth as evidence shows that when
Indigenous youth have access to cultural teachings, they have improved physical, mental,
emotional, and spiritual health outcomes.
Our project focused on the protective qualities of Indigenous coming of age teachings.
Together with our community partner Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services,
we worked to develop resources that inform and advocate for a culturally-centered
coming of age for urban Indigenous youth living in foster care in Victoria, British
Columbia on Lekwungen Territory. This dissertation begins with a literature review to
provide the social and historical context surrounding urban Indigenous youth-in-care’s
access to coming of age teachings. This is followed by a description of the Indigenous
research paradigm that guided our work, what it meant for us to do this project in a good
way, and the methods that we used to develop three visual storytelling knowledge sharing
tools. Three manuscripts are presented, two published and one submitted, that reflect a
strength-based vision of coming of age shared by knowledge holders who participated in
our community events.
The first manuscript retells the events of the knowledge holder’s dinner, where
community members shared their perspectives on four questions related to community
engagement and youth support. An analysis of the event’s transcripts revealed key themes including the responsibility of creating safe-spaces for youth, that coming of
age is a community effort, and the importance of youth self-determining their journey. A
graphic recording and short story are used to illustrate and narrate the relationship
between key themes and related signifiers. This manuscript highlights the willingness of
the community to collectively support youth in their journeys to adulthood.
The second manuscript focuses on our two youth workshops that had the objective of
understanding what rites of passage youth in SCCFS’s care engage with and how they
learn what cultural teachings were most important to them. The findings suggest that
when youth experience environments of belonging, and know they are ‘part of something
bigger’, qualities like self-determination, self-awareness, and empowerment are
strengthened.
The third manuscript focuses on how we translated our project findings into different
storytelling modalities using an Indigenist arts-based methodological approach. The
project findings provided the inspiration and content for a fictional story called Becoming
Wolf, which was adapted into a graphic novel, and a watercolour infographic. These
knowledge sharing media present our project findings in accessible and meaningful ways
that maintain the context and essences of our learnings.
This research illustrates how Indigenous coming of age is an experience of
interdependent teachings, events, and milestones, that contribute to the wellness of the
body, mind, heart, and spirit of youth and the Indigenous community more broadly.
Through our efforts, we hope to create a shared awareness about the cultural supports
available to urban Indigenous youth that can contribute to lifelong wellness.Graduate
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Hanna, Sue. "Breaking another silence : the long-term impacts of child sexual abuse on committed lesbian couples : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1552.
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This qualitative research enquiry sought to develop an understanding from forty-four women, comprising twenty-two couples in committed lesbian partnerships, of how they managed the long-term impacts of child sexual abuse, both on themselves and on their relationships. This is an area that is under- theorised in the literature. A number of key findings emerged from the analysis. The sexual abuse that women had experienced had impacted their adult lives in various ways. Of these the personal aspect featured most highly, with feelings of self-blame, shame and low self esteem commonly reported. Those women who reported physically invasive sexual abuse also reported a wider variety of effects, and in proportionately greater numbers, than women whose abusive experience had not encompassed that particular dimension. Just as the survivors were impacted in a variety of ways by their abuse, so too were their partners, although the effects upon the partner varied over time and in intensity depending on the length of the relationship and the degree of resolution experienced by the survivor. Despite challenges the over all view of couple relationships was positive, and couples were able to articulate coping strategies they felt would be useful to others in similar circumstances. Partners were able to identify with many of the relationship issues outlined by heterosexual male partners of female survivors, although lesbian partners had more a positive view of counselling. The emotional support and commitment of a caring partner was clearly valued although in these partnerships both women wanted their relationship to be based on more than the reparative needs of one member. Finally, being lesbian was no barrier to seeking counselling assistance. A large proportion of the participants had used counselling as a way of working through their experiences of child sexual abuse and had found this to be valuable. These findings have implications for social work practice with child and adult female survivors. They emphasise the long term impacts of sexual abuse, the important contributions made by partners and counsellors in supporting women sexually abused as children and the levels of inter-sibling sexual abuse perpetrated by brothers. The research findings also contain information from the women themselves on what facilitated their ability to cope with the effects of child sexual abuse from the varying perspectives of survivor, partner and couple. This will be essential information for counsellors and social workers wishing to employ strengths and evidence-based approaches in their work with this client group and others, particularly heterosexual women and heterosexual couples.
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Couture, Dominique. "La collaboration des parents de minorités visibles avec les services de la protection de la jeunesse : le rôle du soutien informel parental et des compétences de l’intervenant." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8975.
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En réponse à la disproportion des familles de minorités visibles dans le système montréalais de la protection de la jeunesse, cette recherche explore, du point de vue de
l'intervenant, le rôle de ses compétences culturelles et du soutien informel parental dans l’élaboration d'une relation de collaboration. L’analyse porte sur 24 entrevues individuelles, où 48 interventions sont racontées par des intervenants. Les résultats proposent une typologie, élaborée à partir de la collaboration des parents et de l’engagement de leur réseau informel dans l’intervention. Ils présentent ensuite une description des compétences culturelles et de
leur utilisation auprès des dynamiques familiales comprises dans la typologie. La discussion aborde la résilience sociale, les stratégies d’intervention et le constructionnisme social. Trois principales idées sont évoquées : une conception de la collaboration qui inclut le réseau informel, une réflexion sur la notion de « compétences culturelles » et le développement d’une
pratique réflexive.This research is in response to the overrepresentation of visible minority families in the Montreal child welfare system. It explores, from the perspective of the practitioner, the role of the practitioner's cultural competencies and of informal parental support in developing collaborative relationships. The analysis looks at data from 24 individual interviews, during which practitioners described 48 different interventions. The results propose a typology based on the collaboration of parents and the involvement of their informal network in the intervention. The practitioners provide a description of the competencies and how they are used with typology profiles. The discussion evokes the concept of social resilience, intervention strategies and social constructionism. Three outcomes result from this research : a view of collaboration that expands on the informal network, a questioning of cultural competencies, and the development of a reflective practice.
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Wright, Cardinal Sarah. "Beyond the sixties scoop: reclaiming indigenous identity, reconnection to place, and reframing understandings of being indigenous." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8956.
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This study used life experience methods to gather the narratives of seven adult Indigenous transracial adoptees who have reclaimed their Indigenous identities after experiencing closed adoption during the late 1950s through to the early 1980s. Participants had been members of Aboriginal (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) communities at birth but were then raised outside their Indigenous nations in non-Indigenous families. Through analysis of their stories, I identified four themes that marked their trajectories to reclamation: Imposed fracture (prior to reclamation); Little anchors (beginning healing); Coming home (on being whole); Our sacred bundle (reconciling imposed fracture). Their stories of reconnecting to their Indigeneity, decolonizing and healing illustrate their shifts from hegemonic discourse spaces that characterized their lived experiences as “other” to spirit-based discourses that center Indigenous knowledge systems as valid, life affirming, and life changing. This dissertation contributes to the debate on state sanctioned removal of children and the impacts of loss of Indigenous identity in Canadian society. My findings indicate that cultural and spiritual teachings and practices, as well as, the knowledge of colonization and its impacts on Indigenous families, communities, and nations, all contributed to adoptees’ healing and ability to move forward in their lives. Key recommendations include: further exploration of the concept of cultural genocide in relation to settler-colonial relations in Canada; further examination of the intersection of counter-narratives, resistance discourse, and colonial violence; increased investigation of the connections between Indigenous knowledge systems, living spirit-based teachings and educative aspects of community wellness; and more research examining education beyond formal schooling, including the formative effects upon Indigenous youth of social values, public policy, and legal frameworks.Graduate
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Van, Graan Antoinette. "Ontwikkelingsaanrakingsterapie met kleuters in 'n kinderhuis." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9394.
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M.A. (Social Work)The lack of relevant therapeutic programmes suitable for pre-school children staying in children's homes became apparent whilst the researcher was working in children's homes, as well as during discussions with colleagues. The inability of the pre-school child to converse fluently leads to a continuous search for quality interventions. In an attempt to resolve this need, two therapeutic programmes namely Viola Brody (1975) Developmental Touch Therapy Programme as well as a developmental group work programme developed by the researcher are implemented in a children's home. An exploratory, evaluating study, with two groups of four pre-school children each, are conducted in a children's home. An adapted experimental design is used to compare the results of the two groups. The children's behaviour are monitored and reported on in case studies. A singlesystem design is used to arrange the data, compare the two groups with each other and to monitor individual behaviour changes. The study is an exploratory probe into the viability / workableness and effectiveness of the two interventions with pre-school children in a children's home. The objective is to establish whether the programmes can be implemented in a children's homes and whether it will lead to a change in the general functioning of the children involved. The study concluded that both programmes is viable / workable. In addition, the Developmental Touch Therapy programme prove effective in the development of self concept as well as improving their general functionality, especially in developing positive behaviour. The developmental group work programme is marginal successful in respect of developing positive behaviour but unsuccessful in developing self concept.
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Makhubu, Lindiwe Yvonne. "Dealing with sexually abused children: a framework for social workers in the South African justice system." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1468.
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The South African Justice System is a broader system that brings law and order to society. This law and order also includes the constitutional rights of the sexually abused children. A special court dealing with cases of children who are sexually abused is functioning throughout the country.
The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for social workers working with children in these special courts. The problem identified is that in these courts no framework exists for social workers focusing on the guidance of the child through the processes of the Justice System. This includes the therapeutic guidance by means of brief or directive therapy.
The research methodology for this study focused on developmental research by using the Intervention research model of Rothman and Thomas (1994). The phases implemented in the study were Problem analysis and project planning, information gathering and synthesis and design.
Qualitative data was gathered by means of semi-structured interviews and integrated in phase two of the research report. A proto-type guideline was developed and needs to be evaluated in future research.Social Work
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Martin, Ulrica Lizette. "Assessing the implementation of the hands off our children parental guidance programme in the Western Cape." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/558.
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The effort of this research was focused on the assessment of the implementation process of the Hands off our Children parental guidance programme by social workers in the Western Cape during 2005. This could be seen as an evaluation of the programme in order to adjust it for future implementation.
The objective of this research was to explore the application, experience and implementation of the programme by social workers in the Western Cape. The universe in this study was all social workers that did the training in the HOOC parental guidance programme in the Western Cape. In this study the population was social workers that implemented the HOOC parental guidance programme training in the work place. Participants were selected until saturation of data was reached. The method used in selecting the participants was non-probability sampling. With-in non-probability sampling purposive sampling was used. Conclusions and recommendations on the programme were made in order to empower the Department of Community safety to implement a more effective and streamline project in the future.Social Work
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Horton, Janell M. "Exploring the cultural experiences of family case managers : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4034.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This study explored the lived experiences of family case managers who routinely work with families who are culturally different from themselves. The purpose was to understand and interpret the meaning of culture and cultural difference as it relates to the engagement process with families. The research also sought to understand whether cultural insensitivity or bias may contribute to the overrepresentation of children of color in the child welfare system. The author conducted 10 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with graduates of a large, research-intensive Midwestern university’s Title-IV-E Social Work Program, who also were employed as family case managers in public child welfare. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and the analytic process of the hermeneutic circle. Results suggest the concept of culture is a complex term that encompasses many characteristics and a number of dimensions. In addition, four themes were identified as underlying the engagement process with culturally different families. These themes routinely overlapped, and family case managers often had to attend to each of the thematic areas simultaneously. At nearly every step in the engagement process, family case managers modulated their interactions in order to find balance and stability in their relationship with the family. Finally, poverty was revealed to be the most salient cultural difference in working with families involved in the child welfare system. These results have important implications for social work education, child welfare practice, and research on the overrepresentation of children of color in the child welfare system.