Re: hostility between CPS workers and their clients

[Julia Hutchinson and Aaron Cox <a.cox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dorinda,

Your friend might find 'Trust and Betrayal in the Treatment of Child Abuse'
by Laurie MacKinnon useful. I don't have the full citation here but can get
it for you. It was published in the last couple of years. 

Julia Hutchinson
Counsellor/Caseworker
Child Protection Family Service
SWSAHS

At 13:02 6/05/99 EDT, you wrote:
>I am helping a Social Worker friend of mine locate information regarding
>hostility between CPS workers and their clients.  She would like to do an
>inservice on dealing with clients who refuse to do what is necessary to
>regain custody of their children, do the work but are very hostile toward
>their workers, put up walls between themselves and their worker, etc.
>
>Are there any resources/references I can direct her to?  Thanks in advance
>for your help.
>
>Dorinda Washer,
>Project Assistant for the Parents In Distress Program, DHMC
>e-mail:  Dorinda.B.Washer@Dartmouth.edu
>