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Minorities' Perceptions Of Child Protective Services, Vernae Elaine Hicks
Minorities' Perceptions Of Child Protective Services, Vernae Elaine Hicks
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The study examined minority persons’ views and experiences with Child Protective Services (CPS) in the community. This study used a qualitative design with face‑to‑face interviews with 12 participants in the community. This study used the “Post‑Positivist” data analysis, which is qualitative in evaluation and explained each participant’s subjective reality.
The study found that most participants were satisfied with the results and were dissatisfied with the process in and of itself. Overall the study found that most participants felt that there was some sort of a disconnect with social workers in reference to cultural competency. Miscommunication between the social workers at …
The Foundations Of Hope In Therapy, John M. Winslade
The Foundations Of Hope In Therapy, John M. Winslade
Special Education, Rehabilitation & Counseling Faculty Publications
Hope is a necessary construct in narrative therapy but we need to be careful how we think about it. It does not lie in the essence of persons. There are not categories of people who are hopeful or hopeless. Rather, hope lies in the stories that we use to make sense of our lives but dominant stories from the world around us sometimes interfere with our access to hopeful stories. Therapy can help us reconnect with these stories, leading to the exercise of personal agency in our own lives. This presentation will explore how to help people do this through …