Reflective Social Work
The area of family and child services is extensive. There is so much that goes into caring for a child. People can look into child services by providing education, health care, safety, and personal welfare. The area of family and child services that I am going to focus on is adoptions. I picked adoptions to study because the home is an important part of anyone’s life. I feel that a child needs a stable home to focus in to develop their identity and their activities. Adoption also gives people the chance to become legal guardians of children they are already caring for. By being legal guardians they are able to make important decisions about the welfare of the child just like a biological parent. I personally do not have any experience with
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Their roles are “carried out under the auspices of public or private adoption agencies, is to help support both the birth and adoptive parents and children through the adoption process and provide services that are helpful to fostering a healthy and stable family” (social work policy institute para 1). They are found in very step in the adoption or relinquishment process. A social worker has the role that makes everything go smoothly and that both child and parents are happy with their placement. Their involvement and consideration is found to be helpful because only three percent of families said that they have ever considered dissolving the adoption (chartbook). On the same idea, most families said that they were happy with their adoption agency, social worker, or attorney. Nine out of ten parents were satisfied with the service they received and they also felt that, as a parent, they received all the necessary information prior to the adoption (chartbook). The adoption process is lengthy and intense, so the overall duties of the social worker is to help families through the process, make sure everything is properly done, and to contact the right people to get the adoption finalized.
Services provided by an Adoption Social Worker
The specific services attached to an adoption are vast. In order to make sure that a child is placed in the best home, the application process is long and involves different components.
Social workers perform a broad array of services to help children and birth and adoptive parents through the adoption and post-adoption process, including (1) evaluating the suitability of homes and families that wish to adopt children; (2) assessing the developmental,
Their roles are “carried out under the auspices of public or private adoption agencies, is to help support both the birth and adoptive parents and children through the adoption process and provide services that are helpful to fostering a healthy and stable family” (social work policy institute para 1). They are found in very step in the adoption or relinquishment process. A social worker has the role that makes everything go smoothly and that both child and parents are happy with their placement. Their involvement and consideration is found to be helpful because only three percent of families said that they have ever considered dissolving the adoption (chartbook). On the same idea, most families said that they were happy with their adoption agency, social worker, or attorney. Nine out of ten parents were satisfied with the service they received and they also felt that, as a parent, they received all the necessary information prior to the adoption (chartbook). The adoption process is lengthy and intense, so the overall duties of the social worker is to help families through the process, make sure everything is properly done, and to contact the right people to get the adoption finalized.
Services provided by an Adoption Social Worker
The specific services attached to an adoption are vast. In order to make sure that a child is placed in the best home, the application process is long and involves different components.
Social workers perform a broad array of services to help children and birth and adoptive parents through the adoption and post-adoption process, including (1) evaluating the suitability of homes and families that wish to adopt children; (2) assessing the developmental,