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RE: Defensive social work
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<DIV><SPAN class=169493016-25112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Jess
MacDonald does still have the graph. I saw it in a lecture he gave to an
MSW Child Welfare class a semester or two ago.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>____________________________________________<BR><BR>Philip C.
Garnier, Ph.D.<BR>Research Data Analyst<BR>Children and Family Research
Center<BR>School of Social Work<BR>University of Illinois<BR>MC-135<BR>1203 W.
Oregon St.<BR>Urbana, IL 61801<BR><BR>pgarnier@uiuc.edu 217-244-5251
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> NCCPR@aol.com
[mailto:NCCPR@aol.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:07
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Child Maltreatment Researchers<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
Defensive social work<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">The
term:<BR><BR> As far as I know, the term
"defensive social work" was coined by Besharov, in this article: Douglas,
Besharov, "Protecting Abused and Neglected Children: Can Law Help Social
Work," Family Law Reporter ,9, No. 41, August 23, 1983,<BR><BR>The
practice:<BR><BR> --Though she doesn't use
the term, a former caseworker for New York City's Administration for
Children's Services describes the practice in detail in an article she wrote a
couple of years ago for the excellent New York City monthly, City
Limits. There is a link to the article from the "additional reading"
page of our website, <A
href="www.nccpr.org">www.nccpr.org</A><BR><BR>
--In 1995, I was on a panel at the Casey Journalism Center for Children and
Families with Jess McDonald, Director of the Illinois Department of Children
and Family Services. McDonald showed a graph to the audience that looked
something like an EKG. As I recall, he explained that the graph showed
the number of children removed from their homes by his workers each day.
The "spikes" on the graph represented removals on the day a story about a
child abuse death was on the front page of a Chicago Newspaper.
<BR><BR> McDonald himself might still have
the graph. And the Casey Journalism Center publishes an account of each
year's annual conference, though not a full transcript. I don't recall if this
was mentioned in the story about the 1995 conference. You may be able to
get this from the center's Research Director, Jennifer Moore,
jmoore@casey.umd.edu<BR><BR>Richard Wexler<BR>Executive Director<BR>National
Coalition for Child Protection Reform<BR>53 Skyhill Road (Suite
202)<BR>Alexandria VA 22314<BR>Phone/fax: (703)
212-2006<BR>www.nccpr.org<BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">I am looking for anything that may have been written on the
topic of<BR>"defensive social work." As I understand it, the term was
coined by Douglas<BR>Besharov in the early 1980s and refers to the tendency,
first observed<BR>around that time, of CPS personnel and agencies to base
child-removal<BR>decisions on fear of disciplinary action, lawsuits and
adverse publicity.<BR><BR>Is anyone aware of any references to the term --
or the practice -- before<BR>or
since?<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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Subject: Kids in the child welfare system and academic/ employment outcome
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Is there currently any work on the academic and employment profiles and
outcomes of kids who been in the child welfare system, or their academic
profiles in highschool?