Exit Interview

  EQ: How can a social worker best help a child recover from an abusive situation? 

1. Ensure the child attends group therapy sessions
2. Remove the child from the abusive environment
3. Involve the child and their family in therapy, which includes occasional social worker visits.

My best answer is removing the child from the abusive environment since a child wouldn't feel truly safe in their own homes and won't be able to build healthy relationship with the people that harmed them.
The process that I went through to find these answers were extensive.  I went to old cases and talked to people who went through child abuse and saw how they've grown up and then I interviewed children in juvie who had a history of child abuse and understand how they ended up where they were.  My mentor helped me find these resources to get to them and she helped me find my second answer.
 My first mentor and I encountered a problem I was volunteering at the House of Ruth.  It was my first day and I was in charge of taking care of the children. A man came in and started to invade the home a d grabbed his wife from the hair and started to drag her from the home. I couldn't deal with that and I told my mentor and I apologized.  I ended up with no mentor for a couple of weeks. She understood I had problem with this sort of situation and assured me that it didn't happen in their private company.
 My significant sources were PDF File Hansen, Susan. "Kids Together Child and Adolescent Group Therapy Program: Evaluating a Therapeutic Change Process.", DIETER BRADBURY, Staff W. "DHS' ZEAL IN TAKING CHILDREN CRITICIZED A New Study Finds Maine is Sixth in the Nation in Removing Kids from Troubled Homes, Overloading its Foster-Care System.", and10 PDF File DePanfilis, Diane. Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and
Intervention

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL 
 I, Debora Martinez , affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) Ledingham, Don. "Removing a Child from a Toxic Family is Never Easy."
INTERPRETIVE 
This component helped me understand that removing the child from the abusive environment is much more beneficial for the child 

APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.. 

April

April.... Panic attack.... I'm so behind and haven't been able to overcome the gap that grew from February.  I don't know what to do.  This is really bad.  I have to present the first week.  I present the first day in the first block...
Why did I do this? I'll beat myself up in private.

March Post

I've been playing catch up this month. I have done research that I didn't do, blogs that I haven't finished. I went to work where I don't get paid. I realized this is the hardest thing I could have done. I'm exhausted and a bit emotional from what at do in the Child and Family Services in Pomona. I also realized that if I continue to do this, I will burn out. I'm not passionate enough, not willing enough to give my sympathy in every case, to work every case like it should be

Blog 18: Third Answer

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:

•  How can a social worker best help a child recover from an abusive situation?
• Can enforce that families shall go to counseling and have surprise visits from social services.
• Social services want to keep the families together and have them continue being a family after an investigation of child abuse is done while keeping the child safe.  
• DIETER BRADBURY, Staff W. "DHS' ZEAL IN TAKING CHILDREN CRITICIZED A New Study Finds Maine is Sixth in the Nation in Removing Kids from Troubled Homes, Overloading its Foster-Care System." Portland Press Herald: 0. Apr 08 2001. ProQuest. Web. 
• This will help the child overcome an abusive situation with their family and start the healing  process together.  

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Content:

1. How does the trend in social work harm or protect the child? 
2. What is the best way a group therapy must work so that the child won't be affected negatively in the future? 
3. Is group therapy the way to go for the child if the child would go back to that same abusive environment? 
4. How is group therapy more effective than one-on-one therapy?
5. How must group therapy be formed so that it is more effective? 
6. Does this particular type of therapy work for every type of child abuse? 
7. Can removing the child from their abusive environment traumatized the child? 
8. Do some children feel safer in foster and group homes? 
9. Why are there still cases of child abuse in foster homes? 
10. What is the best way to stop the abuse in foster homes? 
11. What would a foster parent need to provide and show so that they can continue being a foster parents? 
12. Do some foster parents adopt the foster kids? How does that work? 
13. What exactly is family preservation? 
14. How does it work? 
15. What do children go through in this process? 
16. What do the parents have to do in this program? 
17. Does this really protect the children from their abusive situation? 
18. Can the parents actually change and become better parents after having abusive tendencies?? 
19. Do parents hide their abusive tendencies? 

February post

This probably is the month that I decided not to care of senior project.  I got really sick and it made it so that I couldn't move out of my home.  This sucks.  This whole month sucks.  I've never been this scared.  It doesn't matter... I'll get better and continue on my senior project.