Entering into a collaborative search for meaning with gay and lesbian youth in out-of-home care: an empowerment-based model for training child welfare professionals

Article Abstract:

It is possible to use a three-hour training model to allow gay and lesbian young people to instruct child welfare workers about how to address and respond to their needs more adequately. The aim of this approach is to develop a more responsive system of child welfare services for gay and lesbian young people and their families. The training model involves a workshop in which clients are given the opportunity to tell their stories. In this way, they are seen as collaborators, and are therefore put in a position to guide professionals towards working more effectively with this client group.

Gays, Practice, Youth, Social work, Social work with teenagers, Social work with gays

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The use of bonding studies in child welfare permanency planning

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Bonding interviews help psychotherapists to form opinions in child custody and permanency planning hearings for children in the foster care system. The bonding interview is a tool to examine and interpret current or potential parent-child relationships, by drawing on parenting capacities and personality variables. A couple of interviews with the parents and an unstructured home visit builds a highly personalized comparison of the parents' qualities and children's needs and interests.

Research, Analysis, Reports, Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Attachment (Psychology), Bonding (Psychology), Planning in children

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