CHILD ABUSE CLASS - EXTRA CREDIT OPTION

Felicia McCaw
Child Abuse and Neglect
Youth Services 330
Social Work 302
Extra Credit Option

Question: Please brainstorm on how the trends towards abuse can be alleviated. What has to happen with the helping system? With Society?

The current helping system is composed of establishing a procedure to help prevent abuse of children. Safeguarding children is the effective policy and procedure that is emphasized in the United States and other countries. The priority for privacy is stressed when a necessary intervention is needed to help retain the correct focus of providing a well-established home that allows the functionality of the family unit. First by establishing what is acceptable and what is not this allows the true reason of what a family should consist of.

The family unit establishes services that protect children but if a subsequent breakdown occurs in the family then the allowance for the child-saving approach is initiated and becomes the focus of the agency and the consequential investigation and assessment of risk is backed by legal powers and the ability to remove a child if circumstances demand or warrant emergency steps to intervene.

Therefore a safety net has been created to save a child from future injuries or possible death. The safety net entails strategic steps to halt the abuse, report and remove the child from the detrimental environment and the family’s emotional and physical level of dysfunction, relationship issues, communication issues, poverty problems and other sociological stressors. By establishing this supportive basis the safety net is effectively placed and enabled to be fulfilled and motivated.

A unified response is created when the safety net is established as a procedure to be done. The problem is curtailed and circumvented but has increased attention on surveillance of the evolved family situation which concerns the children. Because of this relational competencies are treated and verified as to its effectiveness and correctness of being useable.

If found as a good relational basis it will serve as a tool for preventing child abuse and this further perpetuates and standardizes a plan for newly implemented child abuse preventives. Based on this, scrutinizing the steps utilized in preventing child abuse is the next step to start changing and streamlining steps to ensure high efficiency. Effective detailing of proposed changes are outlined and introduced as changes to be mandated as effective problem eradicating changes for child advocacy.

Felicia McCaw
Child Abuse and Neglect
Youth Services 330
Social Work 302
Extra Credit Option
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As pertains to child advocacy, the realization must occur that the majority of child abuse in families occur in socially impoverished families and because of this assistance to children is a little harder because of the nature and inability to strike a rapport or reach common ground to have them report cases of abuse to be acted upon. Further not reporting cases of abuse is what makes it hard to enforce protective laws for children and acknowledging that sometimes removal does not constitute effectiveness in resolving cases but instead that counseling and behavioral therapy may serve as an option to resolve the dysfunction in the familial home structure which would include supportive parenting that provides support of parenting and will probably actualize in stronger bonds toward children and protective measures embedded subconsciously.

The course of changing sexual stereotypes is also an effective change relayed in cases of child abuse that shows that sexual stereotypes are of the past and not affective or substantiated as vital in today’s dealing with child abuse. In today’s society child abuse is not a sex-gender determinate but is a product of potentiality and culpability of either gender. Further because of this society as a whole has to view child abuse as an evil and should work congruently as a whole to prevent this monstrous abomination and cruelty exhibited to defenseless children.