SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture 6: Social-Work-1AA3- Child Welfare
29 Aug 2018
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Kindness isn"t always helpful and sometimes can be quite damaging, and sometimes help isnt kindness. What influences who is deserving" and who is not deserving". Medicalization- when is it a medical issue". Typically involve common elements: a societal condition, significant, considered undesirable rectifiable. Socially constructed: our understanding of the world (events, objects, social phenomenon) is made in the interaction between each other primarily through language. Respond to concems of child abuse, neglect and maltreatment for children under 16. Other provinces and territories are mandated to work with children under 18. How do | benefit personally and professionally from the welfare state. Experiencing feeling and realities of power" and powerlessness" as an "agent" of the welfare state. An outcome that came as a response to the failure of cooperation, communication and clear legislation around dealing with jurisdictional issues within the greater welfare state. An overrepresentation of indigenous children in care. Inadequate federal funding formula for on-reserve child welfare agencies.
