Full Description
Rural Child Welfare Practice provides students and practitioners with case studies about rural people as a diverse group, a topic rarely taught. This means that millions of rural people spread across the majority of the land in the United States, Canada, and Australia may not receive culturally-sensitive rural child welfare services. The casebook is drawn from real stories of rural child welfare practice. It displays lessons learned from people working in the services "field" of child welfare, while set within the geographic expanses of the "fields" of rural land.
The text has 18 chapters illustrating rural child welfare practice rewards, challenges, strategies, and practice wisdom. All of the stories were drawn from real rural child welfare practice cases. The rural settings include the south, north, east, west, and middle of the United States. There is a Canadian and an Australian chapter. The case vignettes include racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, and rural diversity, with particular attention to working with Native American/American Indians as well as First Nation (Canada) and Aborigine (Australia) people. The book covers a wide range of child welfare services (such as protective services, kinship care, and adoption) and does this from a variety of perspectives. For example, some stories are told by mental health and health services providers with special attention to child and family voice. Generalist practice interventions are detailed.
Each chapter provides background information with professional literature, a case vignette, "take away" learning application, summary. In addition, each chapter has discussion questions, learning/teaching activities, recommended resources/readings, and a bibliography. It is likely to be useful for students, professionals, and educators for learning what today's rural child welfare experts say must happen to engage in effective rural child welfare practice with children and families.
Contents
Introduction
Joanne Riebschleger
Chapter 1: Rural Child Welfare Practice
Joanne Riebschleger and Barbara Pierce
Chapter 2: Theories for Rural Child Welfare
Barbara Pierce
Chapter 3: Poverty, Pavement, and Paying Attention: Rural Child Welfare Practice in the American Great Plains
Debra Norris
Chapter 4: Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Rural Resource Family and Child Matching
Heather Craig-Oldsen
Chapter 5: Cultural Humility within Rural-Practice Wisdom
Debra Norris
Chapter 6: Adoption Social Work in Rural New England
Barbara Pierce
Chapter 7: Working with Aboriginal Families in Canada
Khadija Khaja
Chapter 8: A New Social Ill in Ishpeming
Joanne Riebschleger
Chapter 9: On Your Country: Living and Working Respectfully with Aboriginal Families in Rural Australia
Rochelle Hine
Chapter 10: Rural Social Work in a Native American Community
Toni Hail
Chapter 11: Providing Services to Children of Recent Military Veterans
Andrea Kephart
Chapter 12: Domestic Violence Post-Deployment: The Case of the Martin Family
Steven M. Hyer
Chapter 13: Child Welfare: Two Kingdoms Collide
Susie Touchton Cashwell
Chapter 14: Coming-Out in Rural America: The Case of Emilio Hernandez
Richard Brandon-Friedman and Gail Folaron
Chapter 15: Technology and Child Welfare Practice: Lessons from Montana
Charlie Wellenstein
Chapter 16: Foster-Care Stigma and Ethical Boundary Violations in the Rural Child Welfare Workplace
Angelique Day
Chapter 17: Rural Relationship, Resources, and Rhythms: A Child Welfare Training Program Learns about Workforce Development for (and from) Rural and Tribal Child Welfare Workers
Katharine Cahn and Michelle Warden
Chapter 18: Secondary Trauma Prevention in Rural Child Welfare: Professionals' Self-Care Strategies
Joanne Riebschleger and Barbara Pierce
Index
