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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Caseworkers"”.
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A comparison of the level of knowledge of caseworkers and nurses regarding attachment behaviors and separation anxiety reactions
… study was to compare the level of knowledge of caseworkers and nurses in regard to the concepts of attachment behaviors and separation anxiety reactions in children. The purpose of the study was to determine if there were differences between the levels of knowledge of caseworkers and nurses …
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Refugee Resettlement and Peacebuilding: Exploring the Roles of Human and Social Capital of Caseworkers in Fulfilling Grassroots Refugee Needs
… refugees and their service providers. Refugee caseworkers must meet their clients’ needs and provide certain services to their clients within a limited time period. This makes helping refugees gain economic self-sufficiency a daunting task. Often, failure to achieve resettlement goals is …
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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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Assessing the Fit Between Child Welfare Information Systems and Frontline Workers: Development of a Task-Technology Fit Instrument
… welfare information systems (CWIS) to improve caseworkers' performance, but the extent to which these systems meet caseworkers' needs is unclear. In the field of child welfare there are no reliable user-evaluation measures states can use to assess the degree to which a CWIS meets caseworkers' …
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An Exploration Into the Child Welfare Experience of Parents With Mental Retardation in Illinois
… Central Illinois are perceived by child welfare caseworkers, the availability of specialized services designed to address the unique learning needs of this population, and the relationship between the degree of mental retardation and family outcomes for parents who are involved with the …
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An understanding of the capabilities and limitations of technology-based solutions to Child Protective Services : using a knowledge-based and process-oriented mediation model
… effectiveness by addressing the barriers that caseworkers face in integrating multiple stakeholders’ knowledge. Based on empirical findings with regard to numerous unsuccessful IT development initiatives, the present study strives to gain an in-depth understanding of the research question: How …
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A Mixed Method Evaluation of the Implementation of a Caregiver Intervention for Mothers who have Survived Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers
… at community agencies via focus groups with IPV caseworkers. Each aim identified barriers and facilitators to implementation related to implementation, with emphasis on cultural adaptations for African American families. Using a joint display, qualitative and quantitative data were integrated, …
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Preserving the Bond: Child Welfare Professionals' Perspectives on the Opportunities and Challenges of Parent-Child Visitation
… well as to explore the support and resources for caseworkers to provide visitation services within this practice model. This study used a mixed method design that included 20 in-depth interviews to caseworkers and 44 surveys to child welfare supervisors working for foster care state …
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The Relationship of Selected Organizational and Work Related Stress Factors to Indices of Job Satisfaction Among Rural Public Child Welfare Workers
… of one hundred fifteen line protective service caseworkers from two midwestern states. The Environment Problem Rating Scale (EPRS) was designed for this study to measure the independent variables. The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) was employed to rate job satisfaction. An additional measure of …
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Child Welfare Supervisors as Learners and Teachers in the Field
… research include conducting a similar study with caseworkers to obtain their perspective on how they learned to do their work. Because cognitive apprenticeship relies on teaching of complete procedures rather than isolated skill training, research should be conducted to identify procedures in …
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Realizing dignity : Dalits rights, land reform, and the learning of democratic citizenship
… working with Dalits in Surendranagar Navsarjan caseworkers helped articulate and popularize what philosopher Martha Nussbaum has called the "public myth of equality." I develop this main argument by developing responses to four questions.
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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
… and 10 semi-structured interviews with caseworkers employed in the Centre. This thesis contributes to the gap in the literature base by producing an intersectional analysis of women’s centres in England and Wales, which has been the subject of little research to date. This research …
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Analysis of the West Virginia Child Abuse and Neglect 2005 Court Improvement Program's re-evaluation
… responses from the Judges, Prosecutors and Caseworkers. We reviewed the responses using Jacob and Eisenstein's courtroom workgroup model. Our analysis reveals that policy as an ideal and in practice enacts power over the courtroom workgroups ability to comply with federal standards. These …
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Living in Algorithmic Governance: A Study in the Digital Governance of Social Assistance in Ontario
… this, I interviewed welfare recipients and caseworkers dealing with a software program that has removed much of their professional autonomy and discretion. Drawing from these in-depth interviews, including interviews with two software programmers who offered insight into algorithmic control …
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Transitional medical assistance: A classical policy analysis
… and constraints identified. Interviews with caseworkers and supervisors provide additional information on the identified goals and constraints. This research indicates that the TMA policy is designed to reduce the number of uninsured Missourians but the constraints prevent successful …
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Estimating place-based protective factors for foster care placement disruption : a mixed methods study.
… conflict between foster parents and county caseworkers', and well-organized foster parent support teams. The study also proposes a new theory of personal characteristics that mitigate common causes of disruption called "restorative framing."
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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
… frontlines and assesses its implications for how caseworkers and clients come to address issues of poverty in general. Drawing on multiple sources of evidence, the dissertation finds that asset-building discourse as enacted in this agency setting is fundamentally contradictory: it promotes the …
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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
… frontlines and assesses its implications for how caseworkers and clients come to address issues of poverty in general. Drawing on multiple sources of evidence, the dissertation finds that asset-building discourse as enacted in this agency setting is fundamentally contradictory: it promotes the …
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Evaluation of a Sexual Health Training for Child Welfare Workers
… <p>Results: At baseline, on average, caseworkers reported that they had discussed sexual health with 24% of their adolescent caseload in the past month. The path analysis revealed that subjective norms and self-efficacy had significant direct effects on intentions, and intentions were …
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