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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Child welfare workers"”.
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Evaluation of a Sexual Health Training for Child Welfare Workers
… foster care (YFC) are well documented. Training child welfare workers to provide sexual health information and resources is stated throughout the extant literature as a pressing need in efforts to prevent unintended pregnancy among YFC. However, few child welfare agencies offer such training to …
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The role of self-efficacy on child welfare workers' fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) training and practice
… analysis of a purposeful sample of frontline child welfare workers (i.e. child protect services, foster care workers). The purpose of this study was to test whether child welfare workers (CWWs) who receive more training in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) concepts (i.e. recognizing …
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTORSHIP AND CHILD WELFARE WORKERS’ JOB SATISFACTION, AND INTENTION TO REMAIN EMPLOYED IN CHILD WELFARE
… the relationship between mentoring and social workers’ job satisfaction and social workers’ intention to remain employed in child welfare. This study was conducted in Children Family Services (CFS), San Bernardino. Ninety six child welfare workers completed the survey using the JSS‑CW and the …
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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
… satisfaction and work environment factors among child welfare workers. The association of organization, workload and rural community factors to general, external and internal job satisfaction was correlated on a sample of one hundred fifteen line protective service caseworkers from two midwestern …
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It's No Bed of Roses: Working in Child Welfare
… explored the working lives of public agency child welfare workers in an inner city office in Chicago, Illinois. Eight workers at "City Office" gave access to their understanding of child welfare and to their practice to answer the question, "How do child welfare workers understand and live …
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Vicarious Traumatization and Its Impact on the Pennsylvania Child Welfare System
… secondary trauma, and job satisfaction among child welfare workers throughout the United States, a review of the current and available literature revealed limited research addressing the impact of vicarious trauma and its relationship to worker retention, recruitment, and job satisfaction. …
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Child Welfare Supervisors as Learners and Teachers in the Field
… apprenticeship as a way of preparing new child welfare workers for professional practice. Policy implications include the need for greater emphasis by the federal government on funding training programs that are based on teaching models that are effective. Implications for further research …
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Factors predicting child protective services' provision of and referral to services for parents with a mental illness
… have a greater likelihood of having contact with child protective services and afterwards, of experiencing negative outcomes such as loss of custody. Child protective service (CPS) workers may be able to connect parents with an SMI with services and resources to help address mental health, …
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Preserving the Bond: Child Welfare Professionals' Perspectives on the Opportunities and Challenges of Parent-Child Visitation
… was designed to be a temporary placement for children when their parents are unable or unwilling to provide proper care and supervision. A permanency plan must be established for all children in care, stating clear goals for a permanent living arrangement to facilitate the child's …
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A critical ethnography exploring African American biological parents' experiences with child welfare service providers
African American children are disproportionately represented in the child welfare and foster care system. While there is no statistically significant difference between race and rates of maltreatment, African Americans are more likely to be reported, investigated, have their children removed from …
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Occupational stress in child protection social workers
… purpose of this study is to examine if social workers in a child protection agency report greater levels of stress than individuals working in other professions. Paper-and-pencil versions of the Pressure Management Indicator (PMI) questionnaire were distributed to all participants as a measure …
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Personal motivation and child protection decision-making: The role of regulatory focus in removal recommendations
Decision-making in the field of child protection has been the subject of focused study for decades, propelled by repeated reports of its questionable reliability. Although researchers have examined the extent to which caseworker characteristics influence child protection decision-making, studies …