Cohen Elena P
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice, Washington, DC, USA.
Child Welfare. 2003 Mar-Apr;82(2):143-55.
This article provides a framework to understand the cultural, social, political, and economic factors that affect decisionmaking when working with ethnically and racially diverse families in the child welfare system. The article describes external factors affecting the decisionmaking process, including community environment, agency structure, and family characteristics. It then reviews the core stages of the casework process, describing key decisions during intake, assessment, service planning, implementation, evaluation, and closure. Although the framework is based on casework process in the child welfare system, it can be adapted to other child-serving systems, including education, mental health, and juvenile justice.
本文提供了一个框架，用于理解在儿童福利系统中与不同种族和民族的家庭合作时影响决策的文化、社会、政治和经济因素。文章描述了影响决策过程的外部因素，包括社区环境、机构结构和家庭特征。然后回顾了个案工作过程的核心阶段，描述了在受理、评估、服务规划、实施、评估和结案期间的关键决策。虽然该框架基于儿童福利系统中的个案工作过程，但它也可适用于其他儿童服务系统，包括教育、心理健康和青少年司法。
