Parents with Children in Foster Care — How Do They Perceive Their Contact with Social Workers?

Höjer, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/09503153.2011.557149

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“…However, they suggest that as result of the social workers not engaging with the fathers, or lacking the skills in working with them, in practice these feelings were underestimated or dismissed. Similarly Hojer [83] in her Swedish study of parents who had children in foster care, found that despite experiencing strong feelings of loss, grief and guilt, these were not always recognised by social workers.…”

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Social Work with Single and Non-Resident Fathers: How Inclusive Is Our Practice and Where Do We Go from Here?

Haworth¹,

Sobo-Allen²

2020

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections

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This chapter is focused upon social work with single and non-resident fathers. There is a dearth of social work research that explores the experiences of single or non-resident fathers' with social work, so this chapter starts to explore how we can work more sensitively and collaboratively with both groups. Both single and non-resident fatherhood raise challenges for socially constructed gendered norms, hegemonic masculinity and how children and families social work is practiced. Concepts of borderwork and the emotional regime are applied to develop understanding of these fathers' experiences with social work and how practice can change. The chapter is located within wider discourses about the feminised role of caring and increasingly bureaucratic and authoritarian social work systems. Key practice features of assessment and engagement are discussed and suggestions for developing and improving practice are tentatively made.

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Social Work with Single and Non-Resident Fathers: How Inclusive Is Our Practice and Where Do We Go from Here?

Haworth¹,

Sobo-Allen²

2020

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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 . ).…”

Section: Parental Involvement In Decision‐making: Skills Attitudes Amentioning

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“…, McLendon et al ., ). Höjer () found that parents who had positive experiences with child welfare had been invited to participate in decision‐making, while many of those with negative experiences had not.…”

Section: Parental Involvement In Decision‐making: Skills Attitudes Amentioning

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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 2006;Freymond 2007;Klease 2008;Crea and Berzin 2009;Hall and Slembrouck 2011;Höjer 2011;Lietz 2011;Virokannas 2011;Gladstone et al 2014). When parents have been interviewed about their experiences and sentiments about the child welfare system, they often report frustration and dissatisfaction at being excluded from the decision-making process.…”

Section: Parental Involvement In Decision-making: Skills Attitudes Amentioning

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“…Research suggests, however, that birth parents who are engaged in the decision-making process are more likely to participate in services (Littell 2001;Dawson and Berry 2002;Kemp et al 2009, McLendon et al, 2012. Höjer (2011) found that parents who had positive experiences with child welfare had been invited to participate in decision-making, while many of those with negative experiences had not.…”

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

Berrick

Dickens

Pösö

et al. 2016

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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Children removed from home by court order: Fathers' disenfranchised grief and reclamation of paternal functions

Baum

Negbi

2013

Children and Youth Services Review

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Parents with Children in Foster Care — How Do They Perceive Their Contact with Social Workers?

Cited by 31 publications

References 14 publications

Social Work with Single and Non-Resident Fathers: How Inclusive Is Our Practice and Where Do We Go from Here?

Social Work with Single and Non-Resident Fathers: How Inclusive Is Our Practice and Where Do We Go from Here?

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

Children removed from home by court order: Fathers' disenfranchised grief and reclamation of paternal functions

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