Horney Social Work

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Child Abuse and Its’ Connection with Social Work “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul” (Pelzer, 1995, p. 166). Various discussions, studies, and ethical problems are formed around the topic of child abuse. Child abuse, defined by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), is “any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation”; or “an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.” (Gateway, 2013) This leaves a large area for speculation on whether situations are covered under this definition. Nonetheless, child abuse is an unfortunate …show more content…

Chin gathered all her behavioral assessments she had to do some research such as what would be normal behaviors for four and six year old. This was to make an adequate assessment whether the children were acting normally or abnormally based on the circumstances. She also had to gather information based on the community as far as services that were available to suggest to the Horney family. Along with these points of interest, to do further research, Ms. Chin’s greatest challenge was the decision of whether the children were being abused or not. In her final assessment she decided upon the children not being in any real danger at the time and when meeting back with the Horneys suggested many resources for the family to discuss which would be best. Some of the resources Ms. Chin collected for the Horneys were Parent Effectiveness Training, to help with Mr. Horneys discipline techniques, an agency job specialist, to help Mr. Horney find a job, a visiting homemaker, to assist Mrs. Horney in the home and give her someone to talk to, also marriage counseling, to work on the couples communication (p. 26-30). This systems theory covered the main steps that a social worker must follow to make a strong and appropriate case decision as far as diagnosing the issue, assessing further action, and suggesting adequate resources and …show more content…

Becoming a main career within the field, child abuse work itself can range in importance for a social worker in a practice with child and youth agencies, counseling and therapy, and a vast group of many others. There are countless important factors that make child abuse so dangerous, such as the child being harmed, incidents going unreported, confidentiality purposes, and in some cases the right of privacy. These categories mentioned each have their own controversies which have many different views. However, to narrow down this range of struggle, there are many outlined rules and regulations for social workers to follow and maintain adequate care for each child alike. Child abuse is important to social work for some very clear reasons, some being covered throughout this paper. Without a child abuse portion of social work, we would have children, such as Jimmy and Sherry left alone to deal with the struggle of parents, who in their case, just don’t understand the appropriate ways of discipline. There are cases much worse than the Horney’s, such as the case mentioned earlier of the child that had received severe brain damage from his father’s abuse. Social workers have the ability to narrow these incidents down by either removal of the child from their homes where the abuse is happening or the assessment and suggestion of resources for the

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