Case Study: Collateral Interview With Ms. Jennifer Small-Felix/Child Advocate

is 8 year old Caucasian male who has a younger brother. He was taken from his biological parents who was on drugs thus client B. suffers from intense abuse and neglect. He and his brother was left with his father’s mother who had a schizophrenic diagnosis years of neglect and abuse. He had been to five foster homes over a 5 years period and to each he was abused physically, emotionally, mentally and sexually. Client B. has no friends and during the time in the foster homes, his biological mother would only call to say she is trying to getting him back. Client B. is now adopted by a new parents and is now living in a caring environment but he is still struggling with mistrust issues, hurts, and low-self-esteem and anger issues. His adoption parents is very concern and want to see him become less distressed and open to the care and love that they are sharing. Client B. has developed some medical issues which was of concern to the medical provider was called in children services to check in on

Children suffer significantly until someone decides to protect them. The government allocates funds to establish the foster care system and that system advances to enforce rights for children. When the right to remove children from an abusive situation first originated, the foster care system established a separation procedure for children from their abusive homes. This act of removing children from their families brought about psychological issues and trauma. Throughout earlier years, the foster care system adjusted their program according to the rules and regulations established to provide for the needs of children. However, problems keep appearing elsewhere. These children endure the brunt of every new philosophy in behavioral health management. Often, the biological parents will be left out of the solution. The foster care system develops services to train foster families in caring for foster children and behavioral issues. For some reason, the foster care system believes improvement simpler to reform the children and makes a trivial attempt of the reformation with family. The foster care system needs to try to achieve bonds within the biological family instead of the sole reliability on removal of children to be an adequate answer. The foster care system’s obligation should be to develop a training system for the rehabilitation of families and offer support to achieve the greatest outcome in child rearing. Foster care needs to adapt to supporting families emotionally,

The case study describes 4½ year old girl named Adriana and discusses how she has been demonstrating questionable and dangerous behavior. Adriana was adopted at 29 months from an Eastern European orphanage. At that time her medical exam checked out and that the only problem was her growth parameters. Adriana would respond well to her new mother when needing comfort. However, she would also seek out random strangers, and she did not make the distinction from her family and other people. According to the case study she had even tried to leave with another family.

Introduction first step to gather as much information as possible about the person and his or her problems and behavior. In this case, Clara a 4-year-old adopted girl is brought by her parents to see Dr. Mason because they have

Adoptive Families are special; they have a desire to grow their families by reaching out to children that need homes. These families face many unique challenges, but also receive many rewards, associated with the decision to adopt. These challenges continue for many families, through the process of adoption, legal finalization, and for many years post-adoption. The challenges are different in many ways from those faced by biological parents. Adoptive parents not only face the normal challenges faced from raising a child, but also the psychological issues of the child/ren adopted. Some children placed for adoption have social, psychological, or physical problems that many adoptive families may not be able to address. Previous research has shown an association between post adoption services and successful adoptive placements. “Post adoption services often respond to the effects that separation, loss, and trauma can have on children and youth who have been adopted. They can facilitate adjustment processes; promote child, youth, and family well-being; and support family preservation” (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2012). It is because of these issues, and many others, that placement agency must consider when providing wrap around services for families.

4). In the scope of adoption, it is evident that child welfare agencies use the majority of their available resources for placing children in foster families, investigating child-abuse cases, and providing other family services. “As a consequence, they do not possess adequate additional resources for efficiently placing children in adoptive homes once they are available for adoption, depriving many children of the benefits a stable, permanent home provides” (Snell, 2000, p. 2). The current government operated child welfare system is detrimental to the children involved due to its inability to ensure their safety and

Many potential adopted parents have experienced heartbreak, anguish and other problems that can be associated with adoption. There is an imbalance in the Nations foster care system and the system needs to be strengthening and the quality of services improved.

Foster Care can be a confusing place and scary to some. It is unfortunate when situations must put a child through the system, sometimes due to families’ inability to care for them or other times due to abuse or neglect. Many have experienced some form of loss and trauma and so the process from beginning to end must be handle with care and compassion. When foster placement is called for it is both physically and mentally stressful for all parties involved, most especially to the child. All measures must be taken to ensure that their health, safety, and welfare are top priority when a placing them with foster families who can give them stability and love.

Even if Annette B. did not currently have stability in her foster home or group home yet, it does not mean that keeping the option open for Joseph to retain custody of Annette B. would be in her best interest. DSS should continue to look for suitable adoptive parents for Annette B. to provide her with a quality, structured life. It should be DSS’s goal to show that “all children, no matter their origin or circumstances, are worth every ounce of effort it may take to help them overcome the ill effects of their early hard experiences,” which was clearly evident through her father’s physical and emotional abandonment since she was a young child (Jerkins,

Intervention: CSP, MHS and Antavia discussed the youth’s refusal to communicate with MHS, attend school and comply with the home rules. CSP and Antavia process her reality of returning home and having a healthy productive life. CSP and MHS discussed the youth’s recent behavior of cursing at MHS and leaving the bedroom window open. CSP provided support to Avtavia as she expressed her feeling about living with her grandfather and the upcoming foster care review board meeting. CSP encouraged the youth to inform MHS or CSP when she needs additional assistance.

The reason I decided to talk to her is because of her knowledge in child psychology. I asked her about what the families’ objective was for a foster child. She told me that a foster family should fulfill a child’s dream in having a family and to share a child’s special moments. In doing so, the child can feel like he or she has potential and feel secure that the parents would be able to support the child, whenever he or she needs it (Varughese, S.). I asked about the child being affected psychologically, and she replied saying that the child is taken care of, but not shown affection. This lack of affection tends to allow the child to understand that the child is not wanted and soon many negative things will occur in the child’s brain (Varughese,

According to Ms. Goodall during her intake process, she informed HDWC that she was diagnosed with bi-polar and is not on any treatment regime. During the course of the case, she then shares that she was also diagnosed with ADHD and mood disorder. She further expressed that she is overwhelmed with caring for her daughter because at first it was childcare issue and its effect on her employment. The agency assisted Ms. Goodall with obtaining a voucher for childcare for alleviated her feeling or so being overwhelmed of bringing her child to work on a day to day bases at which was causing an issue. However, Ms. Goodall continues to feel overwhelmed and many times, I thoughts to place her child in foster care. She attempted to seek help from ACS

Focus: Maranda and family will work together to assist Maranda with demonstrating effective coping and communication skills needed to cope with her impending TPR and transition to adoption. MS. Smalls (MHP), Maranda and Ms. Smith (MHS) discuss improving relationship and communication.

The following project, will address the case of Rita and Christiana C . after concern was provided by a neighbor, who reported that 2 years-old, Christina, seemed underweight, neglected and presented facial bruises. She is cared by her currently unemployed single 19 year old mother, Rita C., in a one bedroom apartment in a lower-income neighborhood of Pleasantville, CA. Under these circumstances, a caseworker was assigned by Child Protective Services to visit the home in order to identify the potential impacts and implications for the developmental growth of Christina C. In order to advise Judge Thompson, this project will focus on providing careful explanations that describe the familial and parental characteristics of the socio-cultural environment that favor the removal of Christina from Rita 's custody, followed by the explanation of why the attachment between the parent and child provide reasons that are against the removal of Rita 's custody of Christina, to end on a recommendation on which course of action will best benefit the child.

When one thinks of maternal health they should think of the health of a mother during her pregnancy. Maternal health also deals with a mother after her pregnancy. A women’s health is very critical during her pregnancy. Inadequate care from a health provider could cause the mother or child to have complications or even death. For example, before the hand washing technique was implemented, numerous mothers were dying from giving birth. The infant mortality has increase since those times. In simplicity, child health refers to the care and treatment of a child. According to the text, one way to ensure good treatment is to promote justice for children and secure their rights. (Kotch, 2013 p. 9)