Mediation in Kinship Care
Another Step in the Provision of Culturally Relevant Child Welfare Services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10753760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Wilhelmus (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-126 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sw/43.2.117 |
| PMID | 9528389 |
| OpenAlex | W2148192235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 6 |
With rising numbers of children entering the child welfare system and declining numbers of available foster homes, the foster care system has increasingly turned to placements with relatives to meet the needs of children removed from parental custody. Nowhere is this situation more evident than in the African American community. But the child welfare system did not invent the concept of kinship care. The foundation of current mediation practice can be traced to several ancient cultures, including African culture, where the kinship network often provided mediation services in the resolution of disputes. As an ethnocentrically designed child welfare system grapples with how to best incorporate kinship care into its array of services, conflicts between kinship caregivers and the foster care system have arisen. It is suggested that the application of mediation to conflicts in agency-kinship family relationships can serve as yet another step in social workers' efforts to provide culturally relevant child welfare services.
Agency (philosophy) · Family preservation · Foster care · Kinship · Kinship care · Mediation · Political science · Social science · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare system · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Work
Evaluating Kinship Care Alternatives
Normalizing the Novel’
Exploring crisis and its effects on workers in child protective services work
Kinship and Adoption
The Notion of Interdependence and Its Implications for Child and Family Policy
Kinship care
Kinship foster care
Kinship care
African American extended families and kinship care
African American children in the child welfare and kinship system
Understanding birthparent involvement in kinship families
Partnering, parenting, and policy
The Response of Custodial Care Networks to the Needs of Custodial Grandparents and their Adult Children
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2015 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |