{"title":"Supporting disabled parents and their families: perspectives and recommendations from parents, attorneys, and child welfare professionals.","authors":"Sasha M Albert, Robyn M Powell","doi":"10.1080/15548732.2020.1751771","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While it is well-established that parents with disabilities and their families are over-represented in the child welfare system, no known research has described the parents,' child welfare professionals,' and attorneys' perspectives on the system's capacity to support them or their recommendations for improvement. This qualitative phenomenological study involved semi-structured interviews with 15 disabled parents, 15 child welfare professionals, and 15 parent attorneys. Respondents agreed that the child welfare system lacks expertise on disability and adequate services for disabled parents, and holds negative attitudes about them. Respondents recommended robust training for professionals on parents with disabilities, and individually-tailored services for disabled parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":16907,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Child Welfare","volume":"15 5","pages":"529"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15548732.2020.1751771","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Public Child Welfare","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2020.1751771","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL WORK","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
While it is well-established that parents with disabilities and their families are over-represented in the child welfare system, no known research has described the parents,' child welfare professionals,' and attorneys' perspectives on the system's capacity to support them or their recommendations for improvement. This qualitative phenomenological study involved semi-structured interviews with 15 disabled parents, 15 child welfare professionals, and 15 parent attorneys. Respondents agreed that the child welfare system lacks expertise on disability and adequate services for disabled parents, and holds negative attitudes about them. Respondents recommended robust training for professionals on parents with disabilities, and individually-tailored services for disabled parents.
期刊介绍：
Decisions made in the practice of child welfare have lifelong effects on children and their entire families which in turn affects every facet of society. To effectively practice in this vital field, social workers, psychologists, counselors, juvenile court judges, attorneys, and other child welfare professionals need to stay informed about the latest findings and important issues in public child welfare. To answer this crucial need, the Journal of Public Child Welfare provides a broad forum for theory-based and applied research in child welfare. Rather than limit itself to primarily private agencies, this essential journal provides the quality research and comprehensive information that child welfare professionals and public agencies need most.
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