A comparison of caseworker characteristics in public and private foster care agencies

A meta-analysis of turnover intention predictors among U.S. child welfare workers

“…Aside from meta-analysis matters, CW workers in private agencies have been consistently reported that their pay, commitment to the work, and length of service (or tenure) were lower and shorter, while their turnover intention was higher than workers in public agencies (Auerbach et al, 2010;Faller, Grabarek, & Ortega, 2010;Hollingsworth, Bybee, Johnson, & Swick, 2010;Jayaratne & Faller, 2009). Thus, it might be that private CW workers need more support and evidences from research than public CW workers.…”

Do social work education, job description, and cultural competence foster child‐welfare caseworkers' therapeutic alliances?

“…Because there is a significant positive association between autonomy and supervision (Kim, ; Lee, Weaver, & Hrostowski, ), professional autonomy may facilitate child‐welfare caseworkers' promotion of therapeutic alliances. Furthermore, child‐welfare caseworkers at private agencies tend to have greater autonomy in their interventions than public‐agency counterparts have (Font, ), although the type of employer, according to one study, shows no impact on the extent of client participation in the helping process (Hollingsworth, Bybee, Johnson, & Swick, ).…”

Challenges facing foster parent resource workers in Canada

“…The majority of studies referenced herein refer to the perceived as well as potential challenges from the perspective of the foster parents (e.g., Castellanos-Brown & Lee, 2010), social work supervisors (e.g., Renner, Porter, & Preister, 2009), birth families (e.g., Altman, 2008a,b), foster children (e.g., Fitzgerald & Graham, 2011), and foster youth (Daly, 2012). There have been only two studies published in the past 10 years that have asked the foster parents' social workers directly what challenges they face (Hollingsworth, Bybee, Johnson, & Swick, 2010;Tregeagle, Cox, Forbes, Humphreys, & O'Neill, 2011).…”

“…There are challenges reported in the literature for social workers interacting with birth families (Atwool, 2013). These types of challenges exist in several areas, from broad level systemic issues that prevent birth families from keeping their children and kinship families from fostering them, such as poverty and poor housing (Fluke, Chabot, Fallon, MacLaurin, & Blackstock, 2010), to more family-specific issues such as addressing unhelpful and negative attitudes of foster parents toward birth parents (Hollingsworth et al, 2010). There is also attention to the difficulties of facilitating and promoting positive contact between foster children in care and their birth families (see Gerring, Kemp, & Marcenko, 2008) as well as dealing with strained relationships between birth parents and foster parents (see Goldberg, Moyer, Kinkler, & Richardson, 2012).…”

“…There is attention in the literature to both the importance of relationships with birth families in foster care as well as the potential challenges of developing and maintaining these connections for the children's benefit (Atwool, 2013;Gerring et al, 2008;Goldberg et al, 2012). Difficulties associated with foster parents who are unsupportive of involvement are also cited (Hollingsworth et al, 2010).…”