Child Welfare

Child Welfare

Services designed to ensure that children are safe and that families have the necessary support to care for their children successfully.

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS)

Public state agency charged with regulating child care and protecting children, elderly and/or disabled adults.

Child Protection Services (CPS) Goals

Safety, Permanency, Well-being

Ecological Perspective

Human behavior and social functioning within an environmental context.

Strength based Perspective

Practice methods and strategies that draw upon the strengths of children, families, and communities.

Developmental Perspective

Understanding individual growth and development and family development from a lifespan perspective and examines individuals and families interacting with their environments over the course of time.

Permanency Planning Orientation

Focus on safety maintaining children in their own homes or if necessary, placing them permanently with other families.

Cultural Competence Perspective

Understand the perspective of clients or peers who may come from culturally diverse backgrounds and to adapt practice accordingly.

Values

The family is an ever changing institution that provides the basic foundation for societal values.

Family functions

Procreation, Socialization, Enculturation

Systems

The family is a system composed of a group of subsystems, each interrelated.

Culture

Culture plays a large role in the way families operate. Values, Communication, Spiritual beliefs.

System Communication

Refers to the manner in which family members relate to one another within the family system and to the outside world.

Stressors contributing to childhood poverty

All Choices

Stressors on today’s families

All Choices

Programs

Programs, services and legislative efforts date back to the War on Poverty that attempted to changed the “ culture of poverty” in America.

Historical progress

All Choices

Which of the following children would have been placed in the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta? 

African American girl

Carol is a mother of 5. She knows that she needs to make sure they eat balanced meals and go to bed on time, but she is not sure how to go about doing this. Carol is experiencing…

intrarole conflict

A welfare services worker today is MOST LIKELY to address which of the following issues?

children’s increased exposure to the HIV virus

An example of an advocacy advocacy agency for children is..

the Children’s Defense Fund

Family roles are

expected both by society and the individuals within the family

A family which two parents strive to strive to raise mutual children with both parents in the workforce is called a

two-parent-dual-wage-earner family

African-American families often communicate using..

analogies

Foster care is an example of..

a substitute service

An example of a culture that values assertiveness is..

European

… are disproportionately at risk for growing up in poverty

Minority children

Which is Not true of children living in poverty?

They and their families consistently overuse services available to the poor.

Why does poverty among children seem to be increasing?

The level of education of many parents is low and they are not able to earn as much.

Which of the following is an example of a recent attempt to fight poverty in the U.S.?

Earned income tax

What is a primary difference between children who have health insurance and children who do not?

Children without healthcare are more than four times as likely to have delayed medical care because of cost.

A gang that exists primarily to protect its own turf is a

conflict gang

Which of the following statements about date rape is true? 

It appears to be related to specific attitudes and accepted behaviors among today’s adolescents.

Children whose mothers are addicted to drugs while pregnant

may go through withdrawal at birth.

Why do critics say that the media has an influence on the amount of violence in society?

The media desensitizes people to the committing of violent acts.

Why do most men batter their wives? 

The men have poor self-images.

A child of an alcoholic mother who is physically and mentally impaired is most likely suffering from 

fetal alcohol syndrome

A military family that moves frequently will most likely experience

isolation

What is one of the challenges faced by the families of “part-time warriors”? 

The children are not emotionally prepared to deal with sudden deployments.

Why does family violence occur in military families? 

It is difficult for some military members to turn off the inclination to use violence to solve problems.

Why do some military members with PTSD fall into financial hardship? 

Requests for disability compensation are not always approved.

 If a social worker is knowledgeable about the levels, titles, and tasks associated with military life, he/she is

familiar with military culture and jargon.

What is an IEP?

a legal document that describes a child’s abilities and outlines areas of need for specialized instruction.

Why is early education and care critical to the improvement of U.S. schools?

Early education can help eliminate the achievement gap.

A mandated reporter in child maltreatment situations is

someone who, in a professional capacity, is required to report maltreatment.

A probation officer deems that counseling is the best way to remedy a problem involving a youth. This occurs during the ________ stage.

intake

How does a struggling economy affect U.S. schools?

school funding is cut

According to Finkelhor’s Precondition Model, why might internal inhibitors not operate?

The offender has been consuming alcohol.

Family preservation services are

used for families who are at risk of having their children removed.

Most victims of extra-familial abuse

know their abusers.

Why are concrete services provided by family preservation services?

Families cannot concentrate on change if their basic needs are not met.

What happens during the disposition stage?

The child might be placed.

Which of the following is an example of a multi-factor theory?

Precondition Model

Why do the police have considerable authority in determining court action?

They make most juvenile court referrals for delinquency.

One of the greatest influences on the provision of services for abused children was

the case of Mary Ellen

A student who is interested in specializing in art would most likely attend

a magnet school.

Choose which of the following actions most strongly indicates that a child has been sexually abused.

The child demonstrates sexual behavior beyond his or her age.

Status offenses are

offenses that, if committed by adults, would not be crimes

Why does the idea of talking to a therapist produce feelings of anxiety in some patients?

It will make the patients feel vulnerable and exposed.

A 16-year-old boy has just started counseling. He claims that he doesn’t need to go to counseling and tries to skip out on his appointments. It is most likely the case that

a social worker required him to seek counseling.

Select which of the following arguments an education expert would most likely to make.

Preschool programs should be state funded.

The managed care system of today

favors brief, solution-focused therapy.

Munchausen-by-proxy is

manifested primarily by mothers.

Why do some parents homeschool their children?

They are highly dissatisfied with public schools.

An example of an apathetic futile mother would be

a mother who shows no emotion.

The dilemma of diagnosis refers to

the necessity for assigning a label to a client in order to receive payment from insurance companies.

Select which of the following descriptions best applies to the collusive mother in an incestuous family.

psychologically absent

Why are status offenses illegal?

because the child has not yet reached the age of adulthood

Why does counseling inevitably involve questions of ethics?

The authority of a counselor can have a serious impact on the lives of clients.

Which of the following is an example of kinship care?

a child who lives with her grandmother

Family support services are

voluntarily sought services that attempt to keep the family together.

Adjudication means that

no further action can be taken in a case.

In the state of Texas Intake workers 

Complete the intake interview and the initial assessment

_______ looks at if the child is at risk of imminent harm while ________ looks at the likelihood that maltreatment will occur sometime in the future. 

safety, risk

An investigator may ask law enforcement for assistance with?

a case when the only concern is sex abuse 

How many days should an investigation take to complete?

up to 30 days

What are investigations goals?

All of the above

The lack of structural relationships and of understanding between systems produces which consequences

Both of them

Youth who are concurrently known to both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems at some level are considered?

Dually-adjudicated Youth

This term define any youth who has experienced maltreatment and who has also engaged in delinquency regardless of system involvement.

Crossover Youth

What may be a challenge to serving dually involved youth?

All of them