LibGuides: MSW-6105: Week 6 Resources

Lesson 6 Required Resources

Textbook

Forensic Social Work: Psychosocial and Legal Issues Across Diverse Populations and Settings
Maschi, T., & Leibowitz, G. S. (2017). Forensic social work: Psychosocial and legal issues across diverse populations and settings ( 2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Read Chapter 9: Families as a System in Forensic Practice.
- This chapter illustrates how factors outside of families affect the lives of people within the families. It also examines the potential impact of mass incarceration on the lives of family members.
Read Chapter 11: Child Welfare
- This chapter details the scope of the problem of child maltreatment and current evidence-based assessment and intervention in the child welfare systems. This chapter also reviews theoretical and practical approaches trauma-informed care, family engagement and addressing secondary trauma.

Articles

Case Management Through the Lens of Child Welfare Social Workers
Trancă, L. M., & Vaidianu, N.-F. (2024). Case management through the lens of child welfare social workers. Social Work Review/Revista de Asistenta Sociala, 1, 221–230.
This paper presents the results of a qualitative study that aims to explore the experiences of social workers who work in case management services in the child protection system, with special focus on their duties, the work tools they use in their work with the beneficiaries and the challenges encountered in providing case management services. The paper also reflects the suggestions made by social workers to increase.
What Do Child Protection Social Workers Talk About When They Talk About Helping Children and Families? An Observational Study of Supervision
Wilkins, D., Pitt, C., & Addis, S. (2023). What do child protection social workers talk about when they talk about helping children and families? An observational study of supervision. Practice: Social Work in Action, 35(2), 169–187.
This article aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of child protection social workers' constructions of children and childhood. This article also identified the constructions of the child in need of protection and thereby position children as objects for intervention, separating that from children as subjects in their own rights.
“Suffering in Silence”: How Social Workers in Child Welfare Practice Experience and Manage Burnout
Fuseini, S. (2024). “Suffering in silence”: How social workers in child welfare practice experience and manage burnout. Children and Youth Services Review, 166.
This article discusses how child welfare social workers regularly experience varied feelings and emotions of burnout and utilize a variety of self-care strategies to manage. It also provides recommendations including a call for child welfare agencies to provide opportunities for workers to feel heard and acknowledged any negative feelings and emotions, strengthen positive peer supports, and promote essential self-care practices such as offering reduced membership cost for physical activities.