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The Child Protection System: The Role of Family Preservation, Support, &
Kinship CareZoe Breen Wood
Case Western Reserve [email protected]
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Amasaganalu
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Introductions
• Name• Agency / position• A positive trait that you learned or developed
from your family
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Goals for Today
• An Overview of a child protective system– Key principles and beliefs – Theoretical underpinnings
• Focus on initial components of a child protection system– Identification of Children at Risk– Family Preservation– Kinship Care
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Building A Learning Community
• Start & end on time• Ask questions• Share expertise• Safe environment• Others?
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Case Study: The Bahailu Family
• What are the family’s strengths?
• What are the family’s needs?
• What more do you want to know about the family?
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Foundations for our discussion• Systems theory
• Ecological perspective
• Strengths base
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Developmental perspective
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Systems Theory
• Whole / parts• Movement in one
impacts movement in others / all.
• Boundaries• Multifinality• Equifinality
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Ecological Perspective
• Person-in-environment
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Strengths Base
• All individuals, families and systems have strengths.
• Most effective interventions identify and build upon those strengths.
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Maslow’s Theory
“We each have a hierarchy of needs that ranges
from "lower" to "higher." As lower needs are
fulfilled there is a tendency for other, higher
needs to emerge.”
Daniels, 2004
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Maslow’s Theory
Maslow’s theory maintains that a person does
not feel a higher need until the needs of the
current level have been satisfied. Maslow's
basic needs are as follows:
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Physiological Needs
• Food
• Air
• Water
• Clothing
• Sex
Basic Human Needs
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Safety Needs
Protection
Stability
Pain Avoidance
Routine/Order
Safety and Security
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Social Needs
Attachment
Affection
Acceptance
Inclusion
Love and Belonging
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Esteem Needs Self-Respect
Self-Esteem
Respected by Others
Esteem
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Developmental Perspective
• Types of Development– Physical– Cognitive– Psychological– Social– Emotional
• Stages of Development
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The Child Protection System
• Goals
• Beliefs
• Model
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Goals
• Safety
• Permanency
• Wellbeing
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Child
PreventionIdentification of Children at Risk
Family Preservation
Kinship Care
Foster Care
Reunification
Independent Living
Domestic Adoption
Intercountry Adoption
InstitutionalCare
FAMILYCOMMUNITY
GOVERNMENT AGENCIESNGO’s
THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM
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Guiding Principles
• Every child has the right to be protected. (Convention on the Rights of the Child)
• Children do better in families.• Children should be in the least restrictive
most home-like environment , as close to the child’s own home as possible in which they can be safe.
• The child welfare system must promote permanence for all children
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Guiding Principles• Children have a right to remain connected to
their family, their community, their culture & their heritage.
• Solutions to the challenges facing children are best developed within the community with assistance from those outside.
• The child welfare system must be culturally competent.
• People can and do change.• Change happens in the context of relationships
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DISCUSSION
• Think about the Child Protection Model and Your Agency / Program
– Where does your program fit?;
– What level of Maslow’s needs do you meet?
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Today’s Focus
• Identification of Vulnerable Children• Family Preservation & Support• Kinship Care
• Tools for Assessment
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Child
PreventionIdentification of Children at Risk
Family Preservation
Kinship Care
Foster Care
Reunification
Independent Living
Domestic Adoption
Intercountry Adoption
InstitutionalCare
FAMILYCOMMUNITY
GOVERNMENT AGENCIESNGO’s
THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM
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Risks to Orphaned, Abandoned and Homeless Children
• Health
• Educational failure/lack of achievement
• Mental Health & Substance Abuse
• Incarceration/Criminal Involvement
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Health• Miller and Hendrie (2000) evaluated 452 children (443 girls) adopted
from Chinese institutions.• The duration of orphanage confinement was inversely proportional to
the linear height lag (r = .9), with a loss of 1 month of height age for every 2.86 months in the orphanage. Seventy five percent of the children had a significant developmental delay in at least 1 domain: gross motor in 55%, fine motor in 49%, cognitive in 32%, language in 43%, social-emotional in 28%, activities of daily living in 30%, and global delays in 44%.
• Overall, elevated lead levels were found in 14%, anemia in 35%, abnormal thyroid function tests in 10%, hepatitis B surface antigen in 6%, hepatitis B surface antibody in 22%, intestinal parasites (usually Giardia) in 9%, and positive skin test results for tuberculosis in 3.5%.
PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 6 June 2000, p. e76
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Educational Failure
• Case, Paxson, & Ableidinger in 2004 compared educational outcomes for children in 10 Subsahara (African) countries and found children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS are less likely to be enrolled than are nonorphans with whom they live, even when controlling for poverty.
Demography, 2004; 41(3):483-508.
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Mental Health• Papageorgiou, Frangou-Garunovic, Iordanidou, Yule, Smith,
& Vostanis (2000) in a sample of 95 children of 8-13 years, who had experienced war in Bosnia, were assessed with a battery of standardised measures. They children either came from refugee families (44%), meaning they had experienced homelessness, or had suffered significant family loss (a parent had been killed in 28% and the father was injured or absent in 27% of cases). Forty five children (47%) scored within the clinical range of the depression, 28 (23%) on anxiety, and 65 (28%) on a scale measuring PTSD reactions.
• Imagine the mental health consequences for children without a family.
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 9(2):84-90.
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Incarceration/Criminal Involvement
• Huang, Barreda, Mendoza, Guzman and Gilbert in 2004 compared abandoned street children and formerly abandoned street children in La Paz, Bolivia
• Some findings:– higher risk of police abuse (95% versus 38%) – Higher engagement in robbery (26% versus 4%)
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2004;89:821-826
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Social Service Response
• Must be collaborative– Medical Community and social services– NGO and public/government services– Faith-based community and secular community
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Social Service Response
• There must a continuum of services, focusing on permanency, safety & well-being
• The continuum must be community and family based
• It must incorporate our knowledge of child development as well as family and community development
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A Permanency Priority: Strengthen & Preserve Families
• Unless there is compelling evidence otherwise, initial efforts must focus on strengthening and preserving families– Abandonment Prevention for infants– Abandonment Prevention for children on the
streets (children with families, children connected to families and children on their own)
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Strengthen & Preserve Families
• Requires workers who can assess, intervene and advocate on behalf of vulnerable and at-risk families
• A systemic and ecological framework• Focus on strengths as well as problems and deficits• Case management• Crisis intervention• Immediate and long-term response
• Any solution or intervention has to take account the historical and cultural context of the family being served
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Identification of Children at Risk
• Requires community standards about the level of need which triggers a need for intervention.
• Determined by communities taking into consideration culture and resources.
• What level(s) of Maslow’s hierarchy must be met in order for children to be free of risk?
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Discussion
• What are the legal definitions? Are legal definitions needed?
• What mechanisms/ systems are in place to identify children at risk?
• Do some components of your system focus more on some categories to the exclusion of others?
• How well do the identification systems work together?
• Are there gaps ?
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Family Preservation
• Intervention and supportive services provided to allow the child to remain with his family.
• These services can address: basic needs, development, mental health, abuse/neglect, trauma, violence, and natural disasters.
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Family Preservation
• target population includes families who are at imminent risk of having a child placed outside the home or have been the subject of an indicated maltreatment report
• in-home service provision
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Family Preservation
• Crisis oriented and/or long term
• Case Management
• Empowerment & strength based
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Examples of Family Preservation Programs
• Emergency referrals• Food & economic support• Job training• Prenatal care• Home visits for mothers & young children• Health & developmental assessment• Parenting classes• After school & youth development programs
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Discussion
• What family preservation programs currently exist in your community?
• What level of Maslow’s hierarchy do they address?
• How well do these programs coordinate their services / collaborate?
• What are the gaps?• What additional services need to be
developed?
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Examples of Family Preservation Programs
• Counseling• Child care• Mentoring• Support groups• Family activities• Life skills• Personal safety, and community awareness
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Kinship Care
• Is family preservation and is a very good permanency option
• Involves identifying appropriate family members or fictive kin
• Assessing their willingness and ability to provide safety, permanency & well being to a child.
• Providing ongoing support.
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Evaluation
Implementing
PlanningAssessment
Joining
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Joining
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Professional conversations and personal conversations:
What are the differences?
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Personal conversations• Often spontaneous• Unstructured or semistructured• Subject to interruptions• Can be terminated abruptly • Do not need to reach resolution• Can tolerate a range of informalities – humour, touching,
provocation, challenge, ignoring etc.• Are influenced by diversity – age, language, class,
culture, ethnicity, politics, religion • Often are not strictly time limited• Can often be overheard by others • Are much influenced by the nature and history of the the
relationship – power differentials, empathy/conflict etc
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Professional conversations
• More formal/constrained in language and style• Generally not accompanied by physical contact
often structured or semi-structured• Time limited• Goal directed• Power differentials play a major role• Agency influenced• Context dependent• Voluntary or involuntary
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Interview VS Conversation
• Interaction designed to achieve a selected purpose & content is chosen to facilitate achievement of that purpose
• One person takes responsibility for directing interaction and relationship is nonreciprocal
• Actions are planned, deliberate, consciously selected; Interview requires attention to the interaction, is formally arranged, & unpleasant feelings & facts are not avoided
• Concern with interface between clients and their social environment
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Working together toward goals
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Creating a rapport and establishing a relationship
• A harmonious working relationship (Barker, 1995)• Rapport means “close and sympathetic”• Social workers place great value on the quality of
the helping relationship (Coulshed, 1991)• “The relationship is the communication bridge
between people”(Kadushin,1990)• Feminists have seen building relationships as central
to empowerment and growth (Stone, 1991)Cited in Trevithick (2000)
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Features of an effective helping relationship
• Concern for service user’s self-determination• Displaying interest, warmth and trust• Respect for individuality• Acceptance• Empathic understanding• Genuineness and authenticity• Establishing ground rules regarding confidentiality
Adapted from Kadushin (1990)
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Discussion
• Identify things that interfere with a worker’s ability to join with his or her clients.
• Identify strategies that help to join with the individuals & families with whom you work.
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Assessment
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Assessment
• Is the process of gathering information that will support service planning and decision making regarding the safety, permanence and well-being of children and families.
• Assessments are based on the assumption that for service to be relevant and effective, workers must systematically gather information and continuously evaluate the needs of children and families as well as the ability of family members to use their strengths to address their problems.
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Assessment is…..• Gathering information and formulating a coherent
picture (hypothesis) of the client, their environment and their circumstances
• The beginning of the working relationship
• The basis for the rest of our work with the client: goals, interventions and progress
• Constant
• ALWAYS includes: 1) problems or concerns as seen by the client, 2) legal mandates, & 3) safety concerns
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Assessment is a process• Begins immediately when your client walks through the
door
• Changes from moment to moment
• Is based on both your and your client’s views
• Influenced by your interviewing skills
• Involves the process of gathering information from client, reading documents, observing client, engaging collateral sources of information…
• Is accomplished through EXPLORING
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Assessment is a product (e.g., A Written Document)
• Provides guidelines for organizing information• Includes assessment of the problem, person and
environment• Problem assessment is not always as easy as it seems
– New problems emerge as work continues– Underlying issues not showing on the surface (e.g., Truancy)
• Written in a clear, concise & relevant manner • Is strengths-based• Ongoing tool for work together
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In the Child Welfare SystemAssessment
• Cornerstone of family-centered child welfare practice
• Can be very simple, can be very complex
• Must be based on thorough, accurate, relevant and current information
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Psycho-Social Factors Child Characteristics Environmental Factors Family Characteristics Parental Conditions that Impair Parenting
Assessment of Child Maltreatment
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What do you see?
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List all the items you observed
in the previous slide
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Information Processing
• What do we notice?• What happens right in front of us that
we don’t notice?• What leads us to notice some things
over others?• What barriers that prevent us from
noticing what matters most?
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Salience depends on:
StrengthRepetition
StrangenessMovement and change
Emotional reaction
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So what’s the point?
Our assessments are ineffective if we:
• Draw conclusions with insufficient or erroneous information• Do not have relevant information• Speed up the process• Don’t know the area being assessed• Draw conclusions from only part of the
information and allow . . .
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Personal Factors that Cloud Assessments:
• Cultural aspects of the worker or family
• Bias of previous information• Confirmation bias• Limited available information
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• Emotional condition of the assessor
• Personal involvement in the situation
• Environmental conditions
Personal Factors that Cloud Assessments:
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Types of Assessment
• Safety
• Risk
• Family
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Safety Assessment
• Imminent threats to safety
• “if I walk out of here right now without intervention, will the child be safe?”
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Best Practice in Safety Assessment• Use open ended questions to build rapport.• Talk to them at their level, from their starting place
(cognitively and emotionally)• Interview the child in a neutral place• Talk to everyone in the family as well as others who
may have knowledge of the condition• Talk to the parents of caregivers• Ask consistent questions• Get an understanding of the family’s perception of
the current situation
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Risk Assessment
• Future focused• Risk factors• Protective factors
• Leads to a hypothesis of the likelihood of future harm.
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Comprehensive Family Assessment
• The following are characteristics or problem areas most commonly associated with families in the child welfare system:
• Problems in accepting responsibility, in the ability to recognize problems, or in motivation to change;
• Patterns of social interaction, including aggressiveness or passivity,
• the nature of contact and involvement with others, the presence or absence of social support networks and relationships;
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Categories of Parental Assessment• Parenting practices (methods of discipline,
patterns of supervision, understanding of child development and/or of emotional needs of children);
• Background and history of the parents or caregivers, including the history of abuse and neglect;
• Problems in access to basic necessities such as income, employment, adequate housing, child care, transportation, and needed services and supports; and
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Categories of Parental Assessment
• Behavior/conditions associated witho Domestic violenceo Mental illnesso Physical healtho Physical, intellectual, and cognitive disabilitieso Alcohol and drug use.
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Elements of Child and Youth Assessment
• Physical health and motor skills• Intellectual ability and cognitive functioning• Academic achievement• Emotional and social functioning• Vulnerability/ability to communicate or protect
themselves• Developmental needs• Readiness of youth to move toward
independence
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Elements of Child and Youth Assessment
• Readiness to live interdependently• Ability to care for one’s own physical and mental
health needs• Self-advocacy skills• Future plans for academic achievement• Life skills achievement• Employment /career development• Quality of personal and community connections
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Elements of Family Assessment
• Social network• Relationships among family members
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Elements of Environmental Assessment
• Adequacy and safety of housing• Access to services• Presence / absence of health hazards• Exposure to violence
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Assessment Tools
• Genogram
• Ecomap
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Definition
• GENOGRAM = GENETIC MAP• Also known as family tree but has additional
features. • It visualizes hereditary patterns and
psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.
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Drawing the Genogram
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The basic skeleton of a genogram
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Basic Symbols
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Symbols: Marital and other Relationships
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Symbols of Multiple Marriages
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Generational Relationships
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A more complex skeleton
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Identifying information• Names• Nicknames• Birth date• Marriage dates• Divorce dates• Separation dates• Sibling position (birth
order—include siblings who died)
• Family comparisons
• Personal characteristics or characterizations
• Occupations and job histories
• Illnesses• Hobbies and other
interests• Death date (if
appropriate) and cause of death
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Name: Date:
Three-Generation Genogram
GrandparentsGreat Aunts and Uncles
ParentsAunts and Uncles
PatientSiblings and Spouse(s)
Children
lump
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Develop A Genogram
• Your own family • OR• One of your client’s families
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Discussion
• What can you learn from a genogram?
• How can you use this tool in your work?
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Ecomap: What is it?
A paper-and-pencil assessment toolThe ecomap is a “snapshot” of the client within
their family and social environment at a particular point in time.
Used to assess specific needs and plan interventions for a client.
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• An Eco-map is a graphical representation that shows all of the systems at play in an individual's life.
• They can also be used to depict the flow of “energy” into and out of a system.
• Eco-maps are used in individual and family counseling within the helping professions.
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Interaction With the Environment
Systems theory and/or ecological perspective view of the client’s family life.
Reveals the nature of the family’s relationships with the outside environment.
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Social Environment
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Basic Ecomap Symbols
Female
Male
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Connections to the Environment
• Connect the environment outside of the family with the family members.
• Where is energy being directed and what is the nature of that exchange?
• What is the quality of that exchange?
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Interaction With Social Environment
Identified Client
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Commonly Used Symbols
Stressful, conflictual +++++++ relationship
Tenuous and/or
uncertain relationship - - - - - - -
Positive relationship _________ or resource
The direction of the giving & receiving exchange or a relationship or resource (also known as energy)
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Draw an Ecomap
• Your own family
• A client family
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Discussion
• What can you learn from an ecomap?
• How can you use this tool in your work?
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Strengthen communities to promote permanency and child well-being
• Families can only be a strong as the communities in which they live– We need to understand community values, needs and problems– We need to raise community consciousness about the problems being
experience by their families• We need community workers who can promote social and
economic development for vulnerable and at-risk communities– Micro-enterprise & job development– Neighborhood and housing development
• Any solution or intervention has to take account the historical and cultural context of the community being served
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Move away for linear planning models
Move towards concurrent planning for children rather than linear models of planning for
children
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The Social Service Response
• Needs to be both reactive and pro-active• It is about programs but also about social
policy• It is about services but it is also about
advocacy
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Application to Practice