Family Centered Practice Analysis

Families’ needs involve treating families with dignity and respect, no matter what the allegations against them are, and including them in decisions that affect them and their children. Also by using a strengths perspective with families as foster care workers work with them to determining intervention plans for their child(ren), and giving them the same access to resources and services s those available to foster parents. The operative goal of communities is to work with communities to protect children and support families and taking into consideration community safety issues when determining the intervention plan for a child and family.

Family treatment is considered a necessity when they are the family of a recovering substance abuser. What types of treatment are out their? Why do families need therapy, they aren’t the ones with the problem? As we know from studying system theory, all things within a system even though they are independent are also interrelated. This means that the action of one causes a reaction of the rest of the things within the system. This is why family therapy is a crucial component of a recovery addict achieving and maintaining sobriety.

I chose to work at DCFS as my practicum site because I originally was employed there as a visitation supervisor in the dispatch unit. My job there was to supervise visits of children who have recently been removed from their parents care. Working there helped me to see how important the family system. I also have prior experience in the foster care system. When I was 16 years old, my 12-year-old sister and I were removed from my mothers care and placed into a group home for three days. While my mom was in a 72-hour psychiatric hold, she decided to terminate her parental rights. My sister and I were placed in a foster home with our now foster parents. At this time we were both considered “legally free” youth and I especially was considered unadoptable. Spending two years in the foster care system I was able to see the good, the bad and the ugly and it gave me an in-depth insight when I went back to work at this practicum site,

When we talk about the Child Protective Services, I plan to implement the Solution Based Casework model to help guide me and the Lees in making sure Lia Lee does not become “Government Property.” Its three basic goals are to develop a partnership with the family, focus on pragmatic everyday family life tasks and promote specific prevention skills tied to the family’s tasks. (Byrd, (2012) Which I would use the solution focused approach, the family

Child Protective Services (CPS) is a complex system of assessments, investigations, and conclusions. CPS is the central agency in each communities child abuse and neglect service system. It is responsible for ensuring that preventative, investigative, and treatment services are available to children and families endangered by child abuse and neglect. As a result, CPS workers must perform a variety of functions when responding to situations of child maltreatment and play a variety of roles throughout their involvement with child protective clients. Reporting a suspective case of child maltreatment to the local CPS agency (or a family member’s own request for help with the problem) initiates

A major public health concern is the exposure of children in the child welfare system to potentially traumatic events. These children require trauma-informed care so as to prevent further trauma and to mitigate the effects of the traumatic effects the child is already experiencing. Both the welfare system and the parent under whom the child is placed have a role to play in ensuring this. This essay reviews two research articles that research on the impact of educating the staff in the child welfare system and the parents on trauma-informed care and how this impacts the well-being of the child.

My field placement will be at Child protective services in El Paso TX. The department of child Protective Services withholds a wide range of services and responsibilities that include, investigating reports of abuse and neglect of children, provide services to children and families in their homes, providing services to help youth in foster care successfully transition to adulthood and helping children find adoption. There are many subdivisions within the department itself which offers different amenities during an open case with CPS, although these services solely justify the department, there is a unit known as Family Based Services or also FBSS which focuses on resources that will strengthen the family’s privation in order to ensure child safety and wellbeing. The Department predominantly benefits from task groups rather than treatment groups, because the department is on deadlines with each individual case, a treatment group would not benefit for the departments ultimate value which is Family Reunification. If the department is involved with a family for too long this may cause emotional distress on the children as well as the family. Every year in the United States, more than one out of every hundred children are victims of substantiated child abuse and neglect. For instance, in 2006, 3.6 million cases of child maltreatment were investigated, which is a rate of 47.8 per 1,000 children. In that year, nearly 1 million maltreatment claims were substantiated

Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy employed to assist members of a family in improving communication systems, conflict resolution, and to help the family to deal with certain problems that manifest in the behavior of members. In most cases, deviance in a family member is an indication of underlying family dysfunctions. This paper looks the counselling procedure that can be applied to help the Kline family solve their problems. It answers certain questions including those of the expected challenges during therapy and ways of dealing with the challenges.

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act is important to many parties, some of the stakeholders who are involve are the county agencies, the present children and former clients, public and private medical providers, school district representatives, Department of Children and Family Services staff, elected officials, community representatives, faith based organizations, advocacy organizations, and court and law enforcement staff (Watson, P. 2005). All of these individuals and agencies are stakeholders because they all have an interest or concern for the well-being and protection of children. Stakeholders will continue to play an important role as advocates for children and their families because the child welfare agencies should not do this alone, by working together with the stakeholders, the agencies can achieve the outcomes of safety, permanency and the well-being of

The Magnolia community initiative is a program used to help strengthen individuals and families in order to create a community support system. The family foster care and adoption is a training system for foster parents. The purpose of the training is to help foster parents prepare if ever they decide to adopt a child in the future. The training offers them a parenting designed helpful for raising children who have been separated from their parents. The prevention services were created to bring awareness. By educating families and community members about the dangers of abuse and neglect abuse, is less likely to occur. The mental health service helps families receive the therapy they need. They start off by assessing the individual and then offer therapy they think would be most beneficial for the client. The family assessment is a progress plan designed specifically for each families needs. The training program is utilized to help other organizations find effective ways for helping the welfare of families. The research and evaluation help professionals improve their services by conducting annual evaluations on what’s working and what requires

The Macro Field Project that I will be implementing is the Strengthening Families Program at the Department of Social Services. The purpose of this project is to address the issues related to high risk families. The program will provide instruction on parenting skills, communication, and tools to decrease their risk of out of home placement of the child while improving their quality of family unity (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The goals of the program are to decrease child misconduct in the home and school, delinquency, substance abuse in children and to improve social competencies (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The last goal is to improve the relationship between the parent and child and to increase bonding in hopes that child abuse will be prevented (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The goals/objectives of the project reflect the goals of

Wellington Regional Medical Center is located in Wellington, Florida. It is a 233-bed, acute-care hospital, owned by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc., a highly respected, healthcare management organization. Wellington Regional Medical Center is owned and operated by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc.(UHS), a King of Prussia, PA-based company, that is one of the largest healthcare management companies in the nation. Wellington Regional is proud to have provided high-quality healthcare("About Wellington Regional Medical Center - Palm Beach, FL | Wellington Regional Medical Center," n.d.) services to the

This author is a MSW candidate at Barry University. She is also an intern at the Center for Family and Child Enrichment, Inc. (CFCE). CFCE is a private, nonprofit, community-based organization that serves children in foster care who have been abused, neglected and/or abandoned; children with severe emotional disturbances and in need of mental health care; children in the custody of parents or relatives who are chronic runaways and/or are ungovernable; and children who come to this country without parents or guardians (unaccompanied minors). The agency has three primary focus areas: counseling and therapy service, foster care and adoptions, and family and community support programs. Their mission states

If you are struggling with alcoholism and drug addiction, your disease also affects everyone around you, especially your family. Families function as a system. Think of this system like the parts of a computer. Various parts work together to allow a user to type, scroll down, view images, and listen to sounds. If one part is malfunctioning, the entire system goes down. For example, if the monitor were to stop working, the user would be unable to see any websites or programs on the computer. All parts need to be up and running for the system to work harmoniously. Families are the same. When one family member is suffering, the entire family unit suffers. If you require addiction treatment, your family needs to be included in every step of the

“Family-centered care” is a term heard often in healthcare settings and in nursing practice. Family-centered care has been recognized as being an integral part to patient health, satisfaction and health care quality (Kuo, et al, 2012). Family-centered care is implemented with the goal to increase partnerships between, families, patients and providers; and has been prioritized as a core-concept of quality healthcare (Gallo, Hill, Hoagwood & Olin, 2016) Many professionals, however, would be hard-pressed to state what the term “family-centered care” actually means and how it applies to nursing practice. They would be at a loss for how to implement family-centered care and what is absolutely necessary to have in order for family-centered care to be successful. Advanced practice nurses are faced with the challenge of adhering to family-centered care in their practice. Illness, both chronic and acute, and health does not just affect the patient involved in care. Illness and health affect the patient, their children, their spouses, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their grandparents and anyone else involved in their life. Research by Davidson (2009) supports the idea that the perceived effectiveness of communication between healthcare providers and the patient’s family is related to the overall satisfaction of care. Advance