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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Caseworker"”.
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Personal motivation and child protection decision-making: The role of regulatory focus in removal recommendations
… researchers have examined the extent to which caseworker characteristics influence child protection decision-making, studies into the influence of caseworker motivation on decision-making is scarce. This initial study into the regulatory focus of child protection investigators adds to the …
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Exploring the Experiences of Foster Parents Caring for Children with Complex Medical Needs: A Phenomenological Study
… children with complex medical needs; 2) when the caseworker lacks knowledge of the child’s disability it can negatively affect the support and services the child receives; 3) frequent child caseworker turnover and lack of communication can negatively affect the experiences of foster parents, and …
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A study of U.S. adoption breakdown : exploring current factors associated with breakdown and challenging times in adoption adjustment.
… in adoption from the perspective of the adoption caseworker. The theoretical frameworks of attachment theory and ecological system theory were used to guide the conceptualization and design of each of these studies. Chapter Five provides a summary of each study with implications for social work …
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Helping First Nations children-in-care develop a healthy identity
… First Nations participants, a non-First Nations caseworker, and an Indigenous scholar in order to answer questions related to permanency for Aboriginal children-in-care. Assumptions underlying this study were the difference in child-rearing philosophies between First Nations and Western society – …
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Piecing it together : youth perceptions of the linkages between communication and adjustment to out-of-home placement
… needs of the youth and the quality of the caseworker-youth relationship strongly influenced perceptions of out-of-home placement and foster care. Communication from biological family influenced adjustment through indirect avenues of perceived support and feelings of loyalty to biological …
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Workfare and the Great Recession: Socioeconomic Outcomes among Black, White, and Hispanic Mothers in the Era of Work-First Welfare
… administration. The literature, citing increased caseworker discretion and state-level policies, has also shown substantial evidence of favorable treatment toward white recipients (e.g. less sanctioning) compared with that of blacks and Hispanics. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of …
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Bridging the Gap Between Punishment and Care: An Ethnographic Study of the Breddon Women's Centre and its Relationship to the State
… women in England and Wales. By acting as a quasi-caseworker and working closely with clients, co-leading groups in the Centre, and assisting with day-to-day support, this research captures an intimate depiction of daily life in the Breddon Centre. In addition to these ethnographic observations, …
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Studying Permanency Decision Making
… understand how child welfare supervisors and caseworkers make decisions. Participants (supervisor-caseworker dyads) were requested to call the researcher when making a permanency decision and were asked to discuss the details of the case with no interruptions by the researcher. Within 3 to 7 …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… manifestation through techniques such as caseworker meetings, the provision of job-search evidence, and sanctions. It draws on 42 qualitative semi-structured interviews across a gender-balanced cohort of individuals on Jobseeker payments in Ireland, including active jobseekers, discouraged …
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Vicarious Traumatization and Its Impact on the Pennsylvania Child Welfare System
… following such lines of inquiry as: How does a caseworker make sense of listening to and knowing about the trauma of children? How does this empathetic engagement influence the caseworker's world view, personality, safety, self-esteem, and coping mechanisms? In this qualitative study, 300 child …
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Exploring Occupational Stress Through the Persepectives of the Child Welfare Workforce
… over 400 child welfare professionals including caseworkers, supervisors, and managers. In addition to illustrating how committed the workforce is to making a difference in the lives of the children and families they serve, the data revealed the perceived significant impact occupational stress …
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Pathways from Caregiver Problematic Substance Use to Child Harm: A Secondary Data Analysis of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II
… problematic substance use was measured by caseworker-identified problematic drug or alcohol use. In Aim 2, caregiver problematic substance use was measured by caregiver self-report of problematic drug or alcohol use available only in this sub-group. Using the child welfare goals of safety, …
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A study of the mental health and relationship problems in a sample of children in family foster care compared with a matched control of school peers and concordance in mental health need and service use
… a quarter of children had no contact with their caseworker suggesting unmet social service need and the unavailability of an important gateway for children to access supports. 36.6% of children in care needed extra educational supports yet only 2.4% received educational psychology provision …
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Preserving the Bond: Child Welfare Professionals' Perspectives on the Opportunities and Challenges of Parent-Child Visitation
… services to families in foster care with the caseworker serving as the primary vehicle for facilitating change.</p><p>This study explored how this child welfare practice model is reflected in visitation services for families whose goal is reunification, as well as to explore the support and …
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A More Updated Union: A History of New Liberals and Their New Computers in the New New South
… poverty. To seek entailments was to wait for a caseworker to find you in the system. This dissertation traces the computerization of the welfare state as an explicit reformatting of the liberal social contract from a localized system of uneven entitlements to a national regime of extraction. …
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A Mindfulness-Based Intervention to Improve Family Functioning Among Child Welfare-Involved Families with Substance Use
… aged 0-18, recruited through child welfare caseworker and health department nurse referral.</p> <p>The feasibility and acceptability component of the study was determined by the proportion of families recruited, randomized, and retained, and by participant satisfaction. Enrollment included …
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Beyond School Engagement: School Adaptation and Its Role in Bolstering Resilience Among Youth Who Have Been Involved with Child Welfare Services
… maltreatment. Youth, teachers, caregivers, and caseworkers provided relevant information at baseline, 18 months, and 36 months. Patterns among a variety of school adaptation indicators were determined via latent profile analysis, relationships between latent profiles and child welfare risk …
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Factors predicting child protective services' provision of and referral to services for parents with a mental illness
… county that was White, and an agency having one caseworker from the beginning to the end of a case were statistically significantly related to an agency’s rate of provision of parenting skills training services and referrals. The survey for Aims 2-4 had an overall sample size of 456 participants. …
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Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population's juvenile justice involvement
… practice implications, I first suggested that caseworker should choose to place foster children in less disadvantaged neighborhoods, when they choose from foster care placements that are similar in all aspects except for neighborhood conditions. Meanwhile, caseworkers need to help foster youths …
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