It's No Bed of Roses: Working in Child Welfare

This study 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 the experience of doing child welfare work?" Those workers with Native American clients in their case loads were chosen for this study. Over a period of 16 months, the study utilized ethnographic research methods such as participant observation, interviewing, and document analysis to understand and interpret the lived experience of the child welfare workers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Social Work

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• McMahon, Anthony Patrick

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gullerud, Ernest N.

• Social Work
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
• Sociology, Public and Social Welfare

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9314915

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72577