By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Instrumental and reactive aggression can be non-contact or contact behaviors. In non-contact aggression, individuals use words and non-verbal expressions such as gestures and facial expressions that harm others. In contact aggression, individuals have bodily contact that can be in the forms of [...]
By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Persons who commit aggressive acts base their behaviors on widely-held beliefs and practices. Often their families, communities, and mass media promote the kinds of aggression that they commit. Children and their families who become clients in child welfare agencies often are survivors [...]
By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Girls’ aggression is a growing concern in families, schools, and communities. Aggression is disregard for the well-being of others that results in physical, emotional, and psychological injury. For persons who commit aggression, their behaviors are logical, normal, and often necessary for them [...]
By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA Young people who have experienced abuse and neglect often feel worthless, unlovable, and unworthy of respect. Professionals often tell them, “It’s not your fault.” This might provide temporary relief, but the negative beliefs are deeply embedded. They don’t go away without the [...]
By Jane F. Gilgun and Samantha Hirschey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA We wrote this series of blogs on girls’ aggression for child welfare social workers. The information is also useful to other service providers, educators, and parents. About three million cases of child abuse and neglect are reported each year, and one million [...]
Today's guest blogger is David Glesener Preventing Re-entry into the Child Welfare System, a Literature Review of Promising Practices by Northern California Training Academy Document web link: http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/res/pdf/PreventingRe-entry.pdf This resource guide is a systematic review of evidence based and promising practices to address the high rates of re-entry into foster care—children that have left [...]
The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition in St. Louis, Missouri got inspired by the show Extreme Makeovers and thought, why not "extreme recruitment" for youth in foster care? Thus, Extreme Recruitment was created. In Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a house is build in a week through the efforts of professionals and volunteers working together to [...]
We are back to our regular posting. The lack of posting on our Stability, Permanency and Adoption (SPA) blog the last two weeks was a result of our blog writer's trip to Russia to attend the 3rd Russian American Child Welfare Forum. To see what CASCW was doing there, here is a link to the [...]