Infants Suffering, or Likely to Suffer, Significant Harm: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

Ward, Harriet; Brown, Rebecca; Westlake, David; Munro, ER

doi:10.1037/e607312011-001

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“…This was also reflected in Taylor's work, where drug‐using mothers felt especially aggrieved when their social worker did not consider their perspective during interaction and solely focused on the child (Taylor 1993). In a more recent study on parents of very young children at risk, similar sentiments were raised by parents about both the importance of workers appreciating parental perspectives and being frank about the future (Ward et al . 2010).…”

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Parental resistance and social worker skills: towards a theory of motivational social work

Forrester

Westlake

Glynn

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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Parental resistance is a ubiquitous feature of child and family social work, yet there has been limited research or theoretical work directed at the issue. This paper identifies social and individual reasons why parents may be resistant. Five principle causes of parental resistance are discussed, namely social structure and disadvantage, the context of child protection work, parental resistance to change, denial or minimization of abuse or neglect and the behaviour of the social worker. It is argued that motivational interviewing (MI) provides particularly useful skills and concepts for firstly reducing the social worker contribution to resistance and secondly minimizing the resistance related to other reasons for resistance. Key adaptations required in the strategic aims of MI if it is to be used in child protection work are identified and discussed, the most important of which is maintaining a focus on the child's welfare and safety. It is concluded that MI offers an opportunity to improve practice by increasing parental engagement and to make a contribution to social work theory by combining an attention to both broader social structure and the micro‐skills required in social work interviews.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Parental resistance and social worker skills: towards a theory of motivational social work

Forrester

Westlake

Glynn

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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“…There is also a danger of assuming that good engagement is predictive of change. US and UK research has cautioned against confusing cooperation with the worker with readiness for change (Littell & Girvin 2004; Ward et al . 2010).…”

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“…A review by DePanfilis & Zuravin (2002) linked the caregiver taking the incident seriously to reduced recurrence of maltreatment. Evidence from the UK suggests that parents, who successfully avoided having their children removed, experienced a ‘wake‐up call’ that led them to engage with services and address the necessary changes (Ward et al . 2010).…”

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Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: an integrated model

Platt

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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This paper takes an ecological approach to understanding engagement of parents with services when children may be at risk of abuse/maltreatment. Gaining parental cooperation is a fundamental factor affecting social work interventions, treatment and decision‐making. Based on a review of current literature, the paper adapts the Multifactor Offender Readiness Model to the child welfare context, using insights from other theoretical and empirical work. Parental engagement with child welfare services is portrayed as having behavioural, attitudinal and relationship components, and is determined by internal (service user) and external (policy, programme and worker) factors.

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“…They were particularly concerned about the impact on very young children, for 'the younger the child, the shorter is the interval before a leave-taking will be experienced as a permanent loss accompanied by feelings of helplessness and profound deprivation ' (1980, p. 43). Lengthy care proceedings may also cause harm because of the diminished pool of potential placements that are available as children get older (Lowe et al, 2002;Frazer & Selwyn, 2005), the steadily diminishing likelihood of placement stability as age at placement increases (Thoburn et al, 2000;Biehal et al, 2010;Beckett et al, 2013b) and the pain of forming attachments which will then have to be broken (Ward et al, 2010).…”

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Delay and Anxiety in Care Proceedings: Grounds for Hope?

Beckett

Dickens

2014

Journal of Social Work Practice

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This paper draws on an evaluation of a pilot project in three London boroughs (the ‘Tri-borough’ authorities) which had the aim of reducing the length of care proceedings to 26 weeks, in advance of nationwide moves in the same direction. Rather than looking at this as yet another battleground between professional autonomy and bureaucratic rigidity, the authors focus on the psychological aspects both of court delay itself and of setting time limits, considering the impact of each on the children, parents and professionals involved. The challenge is to balance the pressures of time and the need for thoroughness, being mindful of the uncertainty and anxiety that pervade care proceedings. The pilot succeeded in greatly reducing the average length of care proceedings. Professionals involved in the project, including those whose job was to represent the interests of parents and children, seemed satisfied that this had not been achieved at the expense of thoroughness, and indeed that shorter proceedings might help to reduce the overall level of distress and anxiety that children and parents endure. On the other hand, the new approach adds to the pressures on the professionals themselves. If the changes are to be sustained, the anxiety involved in making these life-changing decisions about children must be recognised, and adequate support offered to those who have to make them

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Infants Suffering, or Likely to Suffer, Significant Harm: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

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Parental resistance and social worker skills: towards a theory of motivational social work

Parental resistance and social worker skills: towards a theory of motivational social work

Understanding parental engagement with child welfare services: an integrated model

Delay and Anxiety in Care Proceedings: Grounds for Hope?

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