Social Work and Child Welfare

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of child welfare services from an historical, theoretical and practice perspective. Services to children and their families are divided into: support services to families or those which enhance family life, supplemental services that help the struggling family to maintain or regain balance, and substitute services or those that provide for the child when the family cannot on either a temporary or permanent basis. Each service is considered from the point of view of etiology, rationale of the services, and provision of the services, how the consumer views the service, and the trend that may affect the future provision of the service. Services are also discussed in the light of their provision to a variety of diverse populations. The course will include an introduction to the Indian Child Welfare Act and services to Native American children and families.