Philosophical Base

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Philosophical Base

• Simple animation or diagram illustrating
  influencing factors

Add 5th research
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• The philosophical base of child welfare
  includes
  
• The family centered approach
• A strength based perspective.
• The appropriate use of authority
• Recognizing the importance of engaging families
  in the change process.

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Family-Centered Practice

• Historical perspective

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Family-Centered Approach

• Children have absolute rights to safety, care,
  neglect and abuse free environment
  
• Parents have rights to make responsible
  authoritative decisions
  
• Parental rights are contingent on meeting their
  responsibilities to the child
  
• Venn diagram type illustration with childs right
  symbols meshing with parents rights

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Empowering Permanent Families

• Foundation of child protective services
• Parent child rights often integrated w/ support
  of family services
  
• Family centered child welfare practice is
  recognition of compatibility
  
• Image(s) of happy family over time (timeline type
  animation)

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• A family-centered approach to child welfare does
  not imply that we can preserve all families.
  When children cannot be safely reunited with
  their own families in a timely manner, we
  identify, empower and support permanent families
  for them.
• This hyperlink leads to an
  excellent web page on the principles that shape
  the philosophy.
  

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Its not just about families.Other factors that
may influencing likelihood of abuse/neglect

• Employment
• Access to health care
• Quality of neighbors
• Extended family
• Social services
• Images of these risk factors in an animation
  showing a person being hovered over by storm
  clouds

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Strength-Based Perspective on Family

• Families have strengths
• Families can make well-informed decisions
• Outcomes improve when families are involved in
  decision making
  
• Resources may exist beyond the family with which
  you are working
  
• Image of social worker working respectfully with
  a family

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Appropriate Use of Authority

• Legal authority is essential for child
  protection
  
• Exercising authority isnt always effective
• Exercise authority only when family cannot keep
  their children safe and free from maltreatment.
  
• Graphic of scale. Authority on one side
  community, support, family, neighbors on the other

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Change in a Family

• Families must be engaged in change process
• Understand why the change is needed
• Help to decide how to make the change
• Changes must be respectful of family culture
• people role-playing animation. One animation
  states the solution, the other provides a dialogue

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Based on the preservice content, please choose
the most accurate answer.

• Children have an absolute right to safety,
  parents rights are ________.
  
• just as absolute.
• not relevant to practice.
• contingent upon meeting responsibilities.
• primary.
• Strength-based practice supports the idea that
• All families have strengths
• Families can make well-informed decisions.
• Outcomes improve with families involve din the
  decision-making process.
  
• All of the above.