Achieving Reunification for Children in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence: Perspectives of Battered Women and Child Welfare Professionals

Findings revealed that battered mothers and professionals in the child welfare system agreed on many of the same child welfare practices and characteristics of child welfare professionals as facilitating reunification process. However, there were a number of practices and characteristics of the professionals on which mothers and professionals disagreed. Divergence in participants' perspectives was centered primarily on whether or not the intervention should focus on the family as a whole including the batterer, or mainly on the mother-child relationship. Implications for social work practice and policy as well as future research are discussed.

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

2015

Author dc:creator

• Shim, Woochan Schola

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wendy Haight

• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3153428

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87326