Family Involvement in Child Welfare Decision-Making: Strategies and Research On Inclusive Practices

Crea, Thomas M.; Berzin, Stephanie Cosner

doi:10.1080/15548730903129970

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“…Process (and outcome) feedback is most useful when it is provided in a timely manner from multiple, creditable, and reliable sources (Ilgen, Fisher, & Taylor, 1979). Evidence-based practices that can supply public child welfare case managers with this type of feedback information include supervisory case staffings (Barak, Dnika, Pyun, & Bin, 2009;Moyle, 1998); consultations with outside experts; and/or case conferences that include relevant contracted social and human service providers, oversight organizations, and family members (Crea & Berzin, 2009;Pecora et al, 2012). Finally, the more specific the process feedback received, the easier it is for public child welfare case managers to decipher which job skills, problem solving strategies, and knowledge gains were (in)effective and why; what contextual factors led to concomitant performance errors; and what types of corrective action are needed (Goodman, Wood, & Hendrickx, 2004) …”

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Case manager job strain in public child welfare agencies: Job demands and job control's additive effects, and instrumental feedback's mediating role

Preston

2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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Case manager job strain in public child welfare agencies: Job demands and job control's additive effects, and instrumental feedback's mediating role

Preston

2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…The fact that most closed adoptions were facilitated through public agencies lends additional credence to Brown et al's (2007) call to evaluate all potential adoptive placements thoroughly, including public agency placements, for the possibility of ongoing contact with children's birth family and relatives. Although more research is required in this area, a number of initiatives currently exist to explore children's kinship networks (e.g., family group decision making, team decision making, teaming approaches; Casey Family Services, 2009; Crea & Berzin, 2009). The influence of family involvement approaches and children's permanency outcomes will likely be a rich area for future adoption research.…”

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Patterns and Predictors of Adoption Openness and Contact: 14 Years Postadoption

Crea

Barth

2009

Family Relations

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Increased attention is being paid to open adoption arrangements between birth parents and adopted children and families. This study examines openness and contact among 469 adoptions at 14 years postadoption from the fourth wave of the California Long‐Range Adoption Study (CLAS) and 378 adoptions matched across all waves. The proportion of families reporting contact declined from Wave 3 (1997) to Wave 4 (2003) although contacts increased within open adoptions. Positive ratings of the contact's effect on the family increased the likelihood of contact between adoptive and birth families, although greater levels of overall satisfaction lowered the likelihood of openness over time. At any point in time, public agency adoptions were less likely to be open. Findings suggest that increased attention should be paid within agencies to how open arrangements are pursued for adoptive placements.

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“…Despite the highly complex and sensitive nature of care order decisions, existing research, in general, suggests that parents' input in decision‐making is not a common component of child welfare services (e.g. Dumbrill ; Freymond ; Klease ; Crea and Berzin ; Hall and Slembrouck ; Höjer ; Lietz ; Virokannas ; Gladstone et al . ).…”

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Parents' involvement in care order decisions: a cross‐country study of front‐line practice

Berrick

Dickens

Pösö

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Child & Family Social Work

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This article examines parents' involvement in care order decisionmaking in four countries at one particular point in the care order process, namely, when the child protection worker discusses with the parents his or her considerations regarding child removal. The countries represent different child welfare systems with Norway and Finland categorized as 'family service systems' and the USA as a 'child protection system', with England somewhere in between. The focus is on whether the forms and intensity of involvement are different in these four countries and whether the system orientation towards family services or child protection influences practice in the social welfare agencies with parents. Involvement is studied in terms of providing information to parents, collecting information from parents and ensuring inclusion in the decision-making processes. A vignette method is employed in a survey with 768 responses from child protection workers in four countries. The findings do not show a consistent pattern of difference regarding parental involvement in care order preparations that align with the type of child welfare system in which staff work. The goal in each child welfare system is to include parents, but the precise ways in which it is carried out (or not) vary. Methodological suggestions are given for further studies.

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Family Involvement in Child Welfare Decision-Making: Strategies and Research On Inclusive Practices

Cited by 27 publications

References 25 publications

Case manager job strain in public child welfare agencies: Job demands and job control's additive effects, and instrumental feedback's mediating role

Case manager job strain in public child welfare agencies: Job demands and job control's additive effects, and instrumental feedback's mediating role

Patterns and Predictors of Adoption Openness and Contact: 14 Years Postadoption

Parents' involvement in care order decisions: a cross‐country study of front‐line practice

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