Structural Competency in Child Welfare

Opportunities and Applications for Addressing Disparities and Stigma

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11344262
AutoresJaclyn Chambers (0000-0002-9335-7089, University of California, Berkeley, autor correspondente), G Allen Ratliff (0000-0001-5083-1732, University of California, Berkeley)
Ano2019
Volume46
Fascículo4
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0191-5096 • E-ISSN: 0191-5096
EditoraWMU Department of Occupational Therapy (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15453/0191-5096.4365
OpenAlexW2996258714
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas44

Race and class disparities in the child welfare system, as well as stigma associated with child welfare involvement, have received much attention in the child welfare field.Black families living in poverty are over-represented within the child welfare system and have disparate outcomes.Additionally, scholars have highlighted how parents often experience the child welfare system as stigmatizing, particularly due to threats to their identity and loss of autonomy stemming from child welfare's focus on an individual intervention model.Child welfare agencies and researchers have employed a range of interventions to address these issues of disparities and stigma, with an emphasis on reducing bias in child welfare decision-making through practices such as cultural competency training; however, the field is beginning to shift its focus to the broader structural issues that lead to child welfare involvement and contribute to disparities.The emerging concept of structural competency could be a new framework for enacting structural responses in child welfare work.This paper examines applications of structural competency to child welfare practice and explores how it may be a promising framework to reduce disparities and stigma

Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Welfare · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice