Child Protective Human Service Reflection Paper
In an internship site there are both similar and differences; dynamic forces is the distinguishing and appreciating dissimilarity .The dynamics you see at my internship site relates to differences of not only gender, age, religion, race, culture, but all socio economic social aspects, all of which you experience and see in employees as well as clients at my work site on a daily bases. At my internship site, the Child Protective Human service “Chat” building there is a Cultural dynamics of differences which come from our traditional cultures and norms. I couldn’t help but experience and become affected by culture thru interning with such a diverse group of personalities, culture affects how people perceive things, and it influences how people
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Even though, people stereotypically think of CPS as a selfless agency rescuing innocent children from horrendous conditions and situations. In reality, CPS workers across the country do this routinely and have untold horrifying stories to tell you about. At the same time, the agency seems to be continually stained by a steady tapping of nightmare stories about CPS coming from the very families CPS is supposed to serve. The stereotypical norm everyone believes is that every child is from a broken drug infested home, which is never clean and parental mistreatment and is noticeable as soon as you inter that home. Although some of this may be true, the chronic neglect cases that you see and are challenged are where families are repeatedly reported with marginal viable change resulting from multiple interventions and become very challenging for the traditional practice of a child protection agency to try and work with. What differentiates chronic neglect from situational neglect or random neglect is the ineffectiveness of working with chronic families in a normal, problem solving way. The conventional folk norms you hear or see are a lack of protecting capabilities in these families and often an indicator of underlying, serious parental damages such as alcohol or drug abuse, psychological illness, or low cognitive functioning, all of which will evade to a stereotypical replica of what you experience and see throughout Child protective services. Making this a stereotypical norm that is very hard or increasingly hard to
Even though, people stereotypically think of CPS as a selfless agency rescuing innocent children from horrendous conditions and situations. In reality, CPS workers across the country do this routinely and have untold horrifying stories to tell you about. At the same time, the agency seems to be continually stained by a steady tapping of nightmare stories about CPS coming from the very families CPS is supposed to serve. The stereotypical norm everyone believes is that every child is from a broken drug infested home, which is never clean and parental mistreatment and is noticeable as soon as you inter that home. Although some of this may be true, the chronic neglect cases that you see and are challenged are where families are repeatedly reported with marginal viable change resulting from multiple interventions and become very challenging for the traditional practice of a child protection agency to try and work with. What differentiates chronic neglect from situational neglect or random neglect is the ineffectiveness of working with chronic families in a normal, problem solving way. The conventional folk norms you hear or see are a lack of protecting capabilities in these families and often an indicator of underlying, serious parental damages such as alcohol or drug abuse, psychological illness, or low cognitive functioning, all of which will evade to a stereotypical replica of what you experience and see throughout Child protective services. Making this a stereotypical norm that is very hard or increasingly hard to