Today's guest blogger is Zoua Xiong. Adoption and Mental Illness is written by Arline Kaplan and published on the Psychiatric Times website in January 26, 2009. The article addresses the controversial issue as to whether there is psychological risk to adoption. The study was completed by researchers at the University of Minnesota with a sample [...]
Today's guest blogger is Derek Zumbach. The practice of “re-homing” is a relatively new and dangerous form of unregulated adoption that puts children, often incredibly high needs children, at risk of serious harm. This extensive report published in September of 2013 by the Reuters news organization looks into this practice to shed some light on [...]
March is National Social Work Month! This year the theme is "All People Matter." The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) website reports that they chose this year's theme and logo in order to help raise awareness about the American social work profession’s 116-year commitment to improving social conditions and quality of life opportunities for [...]
The delete-all amendment was recently posted for the Health & Human Services Policy omnibus bill. Within this amendment, under Article 1: Children and Family Services, there are provisions requiring smoke-free environments in foster homes. First, home studies of prospective foster parents would have to include the capacity of a foster parent to provide a smoke-free [...]
In this post, a Title IV-E child welfare student writes about her field placement experience in Ramsey County's Family Assessment Unit. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student: Bahjo Mahamud Field Task Supervisor: Sophia Thompson Field Site: Family Assessment Unit at Ramsey County Social Services "Working with Sophia Thompson and the entire Family Assessment team at [...]
This guest post was written by Tarynn Anderson. Photo by Mark Holm for the New York Times The article, Focus on Preserving Heritage Can Limit Foster Care for Indians, by Dan Frosch, published on January 26, 2013 in the New York Times, explores the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act and how [...]
Today's guest post was written by Katie Erickson. On 2/2/14, the New York Times’ Opinion Pages Room for Debate took on a controversial topic in child welfare. Syracuse law professor and author Kevin Noble Maillard organized the conversation entitled “In Adoption, Does Race Matter?” Kevin’s piece, Not a Deciding Factor, but Not to Be Ignored, [...]
Source: Northfield Patch It was 1973 when homosexuality was de-classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and since then it has become accepted by most professionals in the mental health community that homsexuality is neither a disease nor a conscious choice that a person can alter. However, [...]
