Department of Social Work and Human Services, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA.
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2020 May;25(2):152-161. doi: 10.1177/1077559519865616. Epub 2019 Jul 30.
This secondary analysis of data describing 3,035 parents, drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, identified factors fostering the collaborative alliance of parents and caseworkers within the child welfare system. We used generalized least squares random effects modeling for panel data. We sought associations between caseworker engagement as perceived by parent and parent's interpersonal capacities, intrapersonal dynamics, problem severity, and racial/ethnic background, and between that perception and caseworker turnover. Parents in our sample had been substantiated for maltreatment of their children. Results showed that parent's perceived caseworker engagement was associated positively with seven factors: parent's social support, parent's mental health, kinship care, out-of-home placement, parent's African American ethnicity, parent's Hispanic ethnicity, parent/caseworker shared ethnicity, and family income. Perceived engagement was associated negatively with caseworker turnover (i.e., number of caseworkers assigned, by turns, to parent's case). Implications for practicing social work within the child welfare system are discussed.
本研究对描述 3035 名家长的资料进行二次分析，这些家长来自全国儿童和青少年福利调查 II，确定了在儿童福利系统中促进家长和社工合作联盟的因素。我们使用广义最小二乘随机效应模型进行面板数据分析。我们研究了家长对社工的感知投入与家长的人际能力、个体内部动态、问题严重程度和种族/族裔背景之间的关系，以及这种感知与社工离职之间的关系。我们样本中的家长因虐待其子女而被证实。结果表明，家长对社工投入的感知与七个因素呈正相关：家长的社会支持、家长的心理健康、亲属照顾、家庭外安置、家长的非裔美国人种族、家长的西班牙裔种族、家长/社工的共同种族以及家庭收入。感知投入与社工离职（即分配给家长案件的社工数量，按顺序）呈负相关。讨论了在儿童福利系统中实践社会工作的意义。
