Platt, D. (2012). Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: An integrated model. Child and Family Social Work, 17(1), 138-148. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00828.x 1) This article takes an ecological approach to understanding how the different levels of engagement that parents have with services might affect children’s risk level of abuse or maltreatment. If parents are not cooperating with the social worker and the treatment that they came up with, children are more likely…
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the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child. Precisely, I believe that changes to the youth justice system should follow the UN Convention to ensure that the best interests of young people are given primary consideration based on the welfare-based approach. In addition to examining Canada’s compliance with the Convention, I will do a comparative analysis and explore how Canada compares to Scotland’s implementation of the Convention with their welfare-based model. Based on this approach, I will end…
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act as the mode of production. As of now the structure has subsided into a nuclear family and acts as a unit of consumption (Parsons, 1949). Similarly, from an economical point of view the denomination of family has shifted from a male breadwinner model to dual earner/carer modality. As Parsons digs more into the family, he outlines…
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her fourth child. She dropped out of high school when she became pregnant with her first child and has been unable to hold down a job due to the responsibilities and duties of a single mother. Therefore she is uneducated and unemployed and has been for the past five years. Tangela receives no financial or moral support from her children’s fathers. Under such circumstances, many may wonder how she is able to support three children and soon a fourth with no income, no education, and no child support?…
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for are criminal justice system, whether a public or private wrong, the adjudication is the resolution. Most criminal justice systems operate on the premise of innocent until proven guilty and some variations in application though the crime control model. Importance of an independent judiciary elected vs. appointed. Question that we ask are if elected would be better or if appointed will be better. The importance of judges recusing self in cases those present conflicts of interest. Laypeople in adjudication…
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no definite answer as to whether or not privatized foster care is more or less effective than publicly administered programs. Throughout the research it was unclear which model was more affective; privately or publicly provision of foster care services in Florida. (Albowiczk, K. Florida?s Experiment with Privatizing Child Welfare Services. 2004). In 1996, the Florida Legislature mandated that the Department of Children…
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Risk This assignment will critically evaluate theories of risk, and consider the approaches to practice for the role of a local authority social worker in the identification, assessment and management of risk of social work with children, young people and families. There will be consideration given to the impact of social work practice on service users and carers including my understanding of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice. The idiom ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’…
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I’m a second year Child Behavior Analysis Major with a minor in Child Psychology. I’m motivated and determined in becoming a social worker to help change the life of abused and neglected children. My passion and reason for becoming a social worker is that I grew up in an abusive home. A child should only have to worry about school and friends not the dangers of life and family crisis. My Goal is to make sure that no child goes through what I had to indulge in as a child. I’ve written a report…
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Please read "A Welfare-to-Work Study Finds No Harm to Children" and describe the research methods and design used in the study. What conclusions can be drawn from the study? Can you speculate on what might be other variables influencing the findings (consider reflecting on the Ecological Model and the broader social context for your response). How do these findings support or refute what you read in "A Potent Spell': Sharing the Burdens of Motherhood ? I found after reading “A Welfare-to-Work Study…
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children is a gateway to decrease the amount of children who are in foster care and to reduce the percentage of children staying in welfare communities. Gay couples are aware in helping children out who are in need of a loving home. The author Crystal Lombardo states that, “It is also considered as the best alternative for the foster-care system that leaves a child wanting to have the same family or attention given by their foster parents while temporarily staying with them.” Gay parenting is a way…
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