Fostering a culture of family-centred care: Child welfare professionals' beliefs about fathers, family instability, and the value of relationship education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn K. Mallette ◽  
Ted G. Futris ◽  
David G. Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Relationship Education ◽  
Family Instability ◽  
Care Child ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals

scholarly journals Barnrättspolitik och vuxensyn

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Sköld ◽  
Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals ◽  
Outreach Work ◽  
Child Perspective ◽  
Children’S Voices

Children’s rights policies and the adult perspective – stability and change in the outreach work of BRIS?This article sets out to explore how a Swedish children’s rights organization has accounted for adults’ capability or incompetence to address children’s interests and how such notions have changed over time and have been negotiated between actors within the organization. Since its establishment in 1971, The Children’s Rights in Society (BRIS – Barnens rätt i samhället) has been an organization of adults working for children. Children’s rights organizations often stress that their work is guided by a child perspective, although much children’s rights advocacy is performed by adults. What is the bearing of this discrepancy when it comes to the formulation of child rights policies? Is it possible to distinguish an adult perspective operating in the shadow of the embraced child perspective? The results demonstrate that in the 1970s, the organization identified parents as the children’s main betrayers, but that the importance of child experts and child welfare professionals as advocates for children’s voices and opinions was gradually emphasized more. During the second period of study (2007–16) the need for increased resources and competences of child welfare professionals has been accentuated as welfare institutions such as school, social services and child and adolescent psychiatry are simultaneously seen as the cause of and key to children’s problems while the generational conflict between children and parents has been downplayed.

Compensated Motherhood and the State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Rymph
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Proper Balance

This chapter examines the role of foster parents as workers, an idea rooted in the nineteenth century role of the “boarding mother.” Child Welfare professionals, foster parents, and the public struggled over the proper balance between paying adequate board to foster parents while ensuring that desire to nurture a child remained the paramount motivation. By the 1960s, foster parents began organizing themselves, culminating in the formation of the National Foster Parents Association in 1971.

Meaning and Essence of Child Well-Being According to Child Welfare Professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-441
Author(s):  
Bridget Colacchio Wesley ◽  
Julia Pryce ◽  
Gina M. Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals
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