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- Adolescent Abuse; Prevention; Intervention; Richard Barth; David Derezotes; (1)
- Adoption; Infants; Foster home care; Social workers; (1)
- Client confidentiality; ethical issues; social work; open adotions; United States; (1)
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- Richard P. Barth; Child Abuse; Book Review; Child Welfare; Mark Courtney; Jill Duerr Berrick; Vicky Albert; (1)
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Full-Text Articles in Social Work
From Child Abuse To Permanency Planning, Deborah Siegel
From Child Abuse To Permanency Planning, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
Reviews the book "From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements," Richard P. Barth, Jill Duerr Berrick, Mark Courtney, and Vicky Albert..
Selecting Effective Treatments / Book Review, Deborah Siegel
Selecting Effective Treatments / Book Review, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
Reviews the book "Selecting Effective Treatments," by Linda Seligman..
Open Adoption And Adolescence, Deborah Siegel
Open Adoption And Adolescence, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
In open adoptions, birth and adoptive families exchange identifying information and have contact. Although most adoptions today include some form of openness, much of the public remains wary of this. The purpose of this study was to explore, longitudinally, adoptive parents' perceptions of their children's open adoptions. This article reports the findings of tape-recorded interviews with 31 adoptive parents who were first interviewed when their children were infants and toddlers, again 7 years later, and a third time when their children were adolescents. The study found adoptive parents were committed to maintaining contact with the birth family even when discomforts …
Preventing Adolescent Abuse, Deborah Siegel
Preventing Adolescent Abuse, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
Reviews the book `Preventing Adolescent Abuse: Effective Intervention Strategies and Techniques,' by Richard P. Barth and David S. Derezotes..
Ethical Issues In Open Adoption, Frederic Reamer, Deborah Siegel
Ethical Issues In Open Adoption, Frederic Reamer, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
Total secrecy and confidentiality no longer typify adoption in the United States. Today, most adoptions involve an exchange of information or some form of contact between the birth family and adoptive family - so-called open adoptions. This article provides a comprehensive overview of ethical issues associated with various forms of open adoption, including issues of privacy, confidentiality, self-determination, paternalism, conflicts of interest, deception, and truthtelling.We present guidelines for social work practice in open adoptions, based on current ethical theory and ethical standards in social work.
Open Adoption Of Infants, Deborah Siegel
Open Adoption Of Infants, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
As the frequency of open adoptions of infants increases, furious debate continues between those who argue that open adoption is a grave mistake and those who assert that it is a long-overdue innovation. This ankle defines open adoption, summarizes the open adoption controversy, and presents a qualitative descriptive study of adoptive parents' reactions to the recent open adoptions of their infants. Findings indicate overwhelmingly positive feelings about open adoption and some issues and concerns unique to the open adoption experience. The ankle concludes that social workers involved in adoptions should move from their traditional stance in directing and defining the …
Defining Empirically Based Practice, Deborah Siegel
Defining Empirically Based Practice, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
The article deals with a study, which described the integration of research and practice into the graduate social program of the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. The need to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical practice is an increasingly frequent theme as agencies scramble for limited funds. Reaganomics has helped bury the once-fashionable belief that social ills can be cured by tax dollars. More than ever, social workers are required to justify the services they deliver. In addition to the economic reasons for the profession's need to integrate research and practice, social workers also have an ethical obligation …
Open Adoption Of Infants, Deborah Siegel
Open Adoption Of Infants, Deborah Siegel
Deborah H Siegel
Adoptions today increasingly include contact between adoptive and birth families. What do these "open adoptions" look like? How do the participants feel about them? This article, based on part of a longitudinal study that first examined adoptive parents' perceptions of their infants' open adoptions seven years ago, explores the parents' reactions now that their children are school age. This qualitative descriptive research revealed changes in the openness in the adoptions over time and identified four dimensions along which open adoptions vary. Findings showed parents' enthusiasm for the openness in their adoptions, regardless of the type and extent of openness. Implications …