Children Protective Services

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the Study1

Thesis Statement3

CHAPTER 02: DISCUSSION4

Introduction4

Literature Review4

Recent Trends in Prevention Services6

Engagement Improves Outcomes7

Keeping Children Safe9

Trauma10

Interventions and Treatments11

Trauma Systems Therapy (TST)12

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)12

Home Visiting Programs13

Family Therapy and Family Focused14

CHAPTER 03: CONCLUSION16

Recommendations16

REFERENCES18

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Children are dependent on their caregivers for their protection and well being. In history, a number of children received poor care in comparison to others and a lot of them have experienced harmful behaviors. Although the meaning and the definition has been modified with the passage of time, maltreatment of children has always prevailed in the world. When the care providers tend to harm the children or are unable to provide care that would meet the minimum requirements of the children. The society arbitrates in order to protect the children and to assure their wellbeing and safety. The children protective services have good intentions that empower the agents in the society to be responsive to the allegations regarding the maltreatment of children by appealing to the State authority and engaging the families in the process those intents to improve the safety of the children. The welfare systems that have been designed for children have given protection to thousands of children and it is still important in the modern society for keeping the children safe. Most of the children may only be alive because of the efforts of the social workers who work for children protective service agencies.

In the year 2008, the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reported that approximately 3,700,000 children were under the investigation of Child Protection Services (CPS). Out of the 3,700,000, 758,289 children were the victim of maltreatment. Of these, 80 percent of the children were under four years of age who injured fatally. In the year 2008, around 1,700 fatalities of child abuse were reported nationwide (McClatchy and Vonk, 2009). Neglect is the reported most frequently and it includes many forms of child abuse and it is one of the most that reoccurs (Saxe and Ellis, 2005). The Child Protection Service agencies mostly focus on the children who have experienced more than one incidents of neglect or abuse and the impact of trauma on these children does not become apparent immediately. NCANDS reported approximately 40 percent of the authentic victims have received some or the other form of in-house preventive service (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, ACF, 2010).

The number of a few types of maltreatment in children has reduced from the year 1980 to the year 2006. The pace of the children fatalities has been increasing with the passage of time. Additionally, there has been an evidence of considerable negative effect in the long-run, on substantial areas that function in both adults and children (McClatchy and Vonk, 2009).

The Children Protective Services do not reap rewards with their programs for providing preventive services and they still are unable to produce the outcomes that have been anticipated in order to reduce child abuse (Kaplow and Dodge, ...