Are We Prepared? Child Welfare Work With Parents With Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities

Despite a growing body of literature addressing the problematic interface between the child welfare system and parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD), efforts to better train child welfare workers to address this interface have been negligible ( Booth & Booth, 1993 ; M...

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Published in:Journal of public child welfare 2013-11, Vol.7 (5), p.633-657
Main Author: LaLiberte, Traci L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
child protection
Child welfare
Core competencies
Developmental disabilities
disabilities
Parents & parenting
policy issues
Social workers
training
workforce issues
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Summary:Despite a growing body of literature addressing the problematic interface between the child welfare system and parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD), efforts to better train child welfare workers to address this interface have been negligible ( Booth & Booth, 1993 ; McConnell et al., 2011a , 2011b ; McConnell & Llewellyn, 1998, 2002 ; Tymchuk, 1999 , 2001 ; Tymchuk et al., 1999 ). This study examined child welfare worker competency in working with parents with IDD, more specifically: 1) to identify child welfare competencies workers need when managing cases involving parents with IDD, 2) personal and professional variables influencing worker competency, and 3) training needs of child welfare workers.
ISSN:1554-8732
1554-8740
DOI:10.1080/15548732.2013.861382