Black Single Mothers and the Child Welfare System: A Guide by Brandynicole Brooks

By Brandynicole Brooks

Black unmarried moms and the kid Welfare approach examines the pressures, hardships, and oppression ladies of colour face within the baby welfare process, and the way this impacts social employees who examine adolescence abuse and overlook. writer Brandynicole Brooks addresses intersectionality and ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized oppression and the way it impacts the protection, permanence, and future health of youngsters. via learn and real-life examples, the reader could be immersed in a old standpoint of oppression confronted through black unmarried moms concerned with social carrier structures, comprehend the definition of oppression and its 4 interrelated aspects, study methods oppression performs out in baby welfare helps and providers, and notice new built-in equipment of addressing oppression. The final bankruptcy discusses conception, generalist social paintings perform, and transformational management kinds, that are utilized by social employees to suggest on behalf in their consumers and encourage self-advocacy, therefore reworking baby welfare.

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495). Honoring and respecting this dual socialization is the first key for social workers to address the negative ideas that continue the experience of oppression. Practitioners f o u r l ay e r s o f o p p r e s s i o n 47 must understand that the makeup of the Black family began with women as the head of the household prior to slaves being brought to the United States and being introduced to the family structure of slave owners. Additionally, social workers must work to identify their own biases and how those biases impact their work with Black single mothers.

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