BSHS/408

CHILDHOOD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

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BSHS 408 Week 1 Tracking Public Policy on Childhood Abuse and Neglect

As a Child Protective Services worker, you must be able to advocate for those who are most vulnerable. It is not only our job as human service workers to care for our clients, but we must also advocate on a macro level on their behalf.

Locate a law, bill, or case in your community or state regarding child abuse or neglect. Examples include the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and Adoption Safe Families Act (AFSA).

Track its path from inception to the present and note where it is in the governmental process.

Visit the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. website for additional ideas.

Write a 350- to 700-word letter to an elected official regarding your position on this legislation or case as it applies to children and families. If applicable, feel free to actually send your letter to the elected official.

Address the following items in your letter:

• Summarize the selected bill or law and state its current status.
• Summarize the historical events and context in which the law was created. How has the history of child abuse and neglect helped shape this public policy or legal response?
• How might this bill or law affect children in your state?
• What can you do to affect the outcome of this bill or change or support this law?
• Include relevant qualitative and quantitative statistical data to support your position.

Format your letter consistent with APA guidelines.

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BSHS 408 Week 2 Childhood Abuse and Neglect Booklet

You have been hired by the school district to create a community awareness booklet on abuse and neglect that will be distributed to the students, parents, and teachers in the school district.

Create, as a team, a 5- to 7-page abuse and neglect awareness booklet describing the causes and symptoms associated with the five main types of abuse and neglect: physical, social, emotional, sexual, and child exploitation.

Include the following information for each type of abuse:

• Definition
• Causes and symptoms
• Statistical information regarding its prevalence
• Real-life examples of ways this type of abuse or neglect may appear
• Ways to identify abuse and characteristics to look for in extrafamilial abuse
• Local or national resources for perpetrators and victims of abuse

Format your booklet consistent with APA guidelines.

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BSHS 408 Week 3 Interviewing Skills Module Worksheet

Review the Interviewing Skills Module Worksheet.

Complete, individually, the Child Welfare Interviewing Skills Interactive Case Study Module.

Discuss the module and worksheet questions with your Learning Team.

Complete, as a team, the Interviewing Skills Worksheet.

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Interviewing Skills Worksheet

Instructions: Individually, complete the Pearson My Lab module: Child Welfare Interviewing Skills Interactive Case Study. Discuss the module with your Learning Team. As a team, respond to the questions below. 

Was interviewing an appropriate or inappropriate assessment method for this case? Why or why not?

What is empathy? Do you think there was an empathetic moment in the interview? If so, explain what made it empathetic.

What does counter transference mean? In moments where you were uncomfortable with how the social worker was interviewing the client, what could the social worker have done or said differently to be more empathetic?

What feelings might surface for you when working with a child abuse and neglect case and assessment method? Were any of these feelings reflected in the video by the social worker? If so, which ones?

BSHS 408 Week 3 Child Abuse and Neglect Assessment, Family Case Study

Select a case study about either the Bernardez, Cedeno, Phillips, or Wallace Families.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper answering the following questions:

• What forms of abuse and/or neglect are present in this family?
• How do these forms of abuse and/or neglect impact the child’s protection or the children in the family?
• Does the abuse and/or neglect impact family preservation? Explain.
• What characteristics are present in the abuser and abused?
• Knowing these characteristics, what forms of assessment would you use for screening?
• What information are you lacking about the situation and its context that you feel you need to know to gain an in-depth understanding?
• What assumptions about human and social behavior are you making, and how would you follow up with these?
• Identify the strengths, limitations, risks, and barriers present in this family. Based on the strengths, where would you start to work with this family?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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BSHS 408 Week 4 Family Life Education Program

Resources: Group Parent Education Program Table.

Review the Group Parent Education Program table.

Complete, as a team, the Family Life Education Program Worksheet.

Select a case study from the Child Abuse and Neglect Case Studies. It is recommended that the case study you select would be different from the case study you selected in Week 3.

Select 4 programs from the Group Parent Education Program table or other programs you have found.  For each program, provide the following information:

• A summary of the program
• A description of how you could use that program in working with the case study family
• Why this parenting program is appropriate for the case study family. How could this program be adapted to better suit the needs of the case study family?
• What other resources would help the case study family?

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BSHS 408 Week 4 Adoptable Children Assignment

Visit the AdoptUsKids website.

Search for adoptable children using different criteria, such as different ages, sibling groups, etc.

Select 3 children and explore information on them that would indicate why they may or may not be easily adoptable.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing your search and answer the following questions:

• Why might some children be more easily placed in foster care or adopted than others?
• How could parents prepare to adopt or foster the children you have identified?
• What are some ways you could prepare these children for adoption or foster care?
• As a teacher, what might you do to help prepare a new student coming to your class who is being adopted or in foster care?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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BSHS 408 Week 5 Building Stronger Families

Resource: Ideas for Building Stronger Families.

Review Ideas for Building Stronger Families.

Create, as a team, a 12- to 16-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for parents on building a stronger family.

Address the following questions in your presentation:

• What characteristics are most important in building a stronger family?
• What are 3 activities families could do to build a stronger family?
• How does society play a role in improving the strength of the family? What current societal trends must change to prevent abuse and neglect?
• What role do Child Protective Services workers play in strengthening the family, and treating and preventing abuse and neglect?

Include a minimum of three online resources for parents and families.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

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BSHS 408 Week 5 Summary of Child Maltreatment Statement Paper

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper sharing your final thoughts and

answering the following questions:

• What aspect of your study of child abuse and neglect had the most

  impact on you?

  • Consider what you have learned, what has impacted you or how you

  have changed, and share what you will take away from this class?

  • What information from your study of child abuse and neglect is

  important for you to pass along to others who might be studying child

  abuse and neglect or for others to know in general?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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