Overrepresentation in Child Welfare In Child Welfare, there is an overrepresentation of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in child welfare. Children of color are more likely to be removed from their home, more likely to be investigated by social workers, and more likely to be screened for abuse or neglect in medical settings. Overrepresentation of children in child welfare means that there is a disproportionate number of children of a certain racial or ethnic identity involved in child welfare compared
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of the question. According to the NYU Child Study Center family meals, meaning that families sit down and eat together, in the past twenty years has declined by thirty three percent and has been replaced with either after school activities or the child is left alone and has become what is referred to as a Latch Key Child. This is a child that is left alone due to the fact that the responsible party or parent must work long hours and the child is left alone to fend for themselves, this is
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Punishment Needed to Discipline Children? PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology February 24, 2014 Child discipline is very important, without it, society would have many problems. The questions arise when we discuss what kind of child discipline is most effective. Times have changed and how our parents and grandparents were disciplined when doing unwanted behaviors would today be a severe child abuse. Even for middle age parents of today there is a contrast in the way corporal punishment is used
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Child abuse versus Discipline CJ 210 October 1, 2012 Abstract This paper will identify the difference between abuse and discipline. The effective ways to teach our children and the negative ways in which people think discipline can be tied into abuse. The thin line between abuse and discipline and how some people may think it is justified. Child abuse versus Discipline What is child abuse? Under the federal law any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which
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Child abuse versus Discipline Abstract This paper will identify the difference between abuse and discipline. The effective ways to teach our children and the negative ways in which people think discipline can be tied into abuse. The thin line between abuse and discipline and how some people may think it is justified. Child abuse versus Discipline What is child abuse? Under the federal law any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious
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Alcohol is the leading known preventable cause of mental and physical birth defects in the United States (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Revisited). When a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy she risks giving birth to a child who will have mental and physical deficiencies for their entire life. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first described and published in medical literature in 1968. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a physical abnormality most recognized in the facial features and reduced size of newborns
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UNISA ASSIGNMENT 01 552421 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS TOPIC PAGE Background Narrative 1 Child Abuse 2 Maslow’s Hierarchy 2-3 Guidance for Ted 3 Child trauma 4 Parental involvement 5 Intervention programme 5 SECTION 1: BACKGROUND 1.1 Erickson developed a model with eight stages of psychological development. This model is based on the idea that a person’s development moves through stages in their life
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kids who also faced similar things in the home of mrs. Tate. He was often beaten, tied up in a dark basement. He remembers that how Mrs. Tate, An ardent Christian in BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESMENT OF ANTWONE 3 church, used to abuse him sexually, physically and mentally but Mr. Tate pitied him. Antwone also liked Mr. Tate for his decent and mild behavior. Once when he opposed such atrocities, he was kicked from the foster home but it gave him immense pleasure. He felt heroic about
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CPS – Hurt Page 1 Child Protection Services (CPS) and How Juveniles Are Affected Jessie Hurt SOC-331 Social Justice & Ethics Instructor Jen Brockel January 14th, 2013 CPS - Hurt Page 2 “Nearly five children die every day in America from abuse and neglect, and in 2010, an estimated 1,560 children died from abuse and neglect in the United States.” (Alliance, 2012) Children who are being abused and taken
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With the hundreds of screening instruments and assessments tools that exist. There is a specific instrument available to help counselors determine whether further assessment is warranted, the nature and extent of a client’s abuse, whether a client has a mental disorder, what types of traumatic experiences a client has had and what they consequences are and treatment related factors that impact their response to interventions. This TIP makes no recommendations of the tools needed for screening and
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