Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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SW 4224 - Child Welfare II


The second in a series of two child welfare courses. Continues with a family-centered and strength-based approach to child welfare services that addresses the developmental and permanence needs of children in the child welfare system. The Caseworker Core Training content is divided into five core modules covering: assessment in family-centered child protective services; investigative processes in family-centered child protective services; case planning and family-centered casework; child development and implications for family-centered child protective services; and separation, placement, and reunification in family-centered child protective services. Explores the phenomenon of traumatic stress as a topic of increasing importance in child welfare/social work practice and how secondary traumatic stress is derived from the social worker-client relationship. Allow social workers to prevent and intervene in secondary traumatic stress in themselves, colleagues, clients, and organizations.

Requisites: SW 4223 and 12 hour Tier II Social Sciences and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Ability to complete thorough assessments that identify family needs, strengths, contributors to maltreatment, and resources to promote children’s safety.
  • Ability to design and implement safety plans to protect children at immediate danger of serious harm.
  • Ability to determine the level of immediate and future risk of abuse or neglect to children in their homes.
  • Ability to develop case plans that include objectives and service activities to address high priority needs and problems, and build on family resources and strengths.
  • Ability to identify indicators of age-appropriate development in all domains for children of varying ages.
  • Ability to initiate permanency planning activities, including supplemental case planning, to assure children’s safety and stability.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with the family, including extended family members and service providers, to plan and coordinate services.
  • Graduate students will demonstrate an ability to a range of social policy issues with emphasis on their effects on families and children from a child welfare perspective.



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