As youth care workers, one has a duty to provide support and advocate for the minors that face different types of issues. One needs to be able to provide basic counseling, intervention and risk assessment; while addressing the youth’s issue using a plan and facilitating programs. The duties can be shaped and reformed to fit the needs of the patient. Sometimes youth care workers work with residential care facilities that have patients (often teenagers) that have been on supervision; the last step for most youth before being sentenced to a Juvenile Detention Center. There is no step-by-step way to approach the situation, one needs to be flexible to try different methods based on their client. Youth need a structured living environment to thrive, …show more content…
The youth care worker would need to ensure confidentiality for the patient. If the youth reports that they were abused and they were acting out, then youth care workers would break that confidentiality when it comes to abuse of a minor. Otherwise, and information shared with the youth care worker must remain private. If the youth reported that they have used drugs and was caught by law enforcement, the youth care worker has to keep their confidentiality with the youth and not reveal the information to their parents or the main authority figure in their life. Youth care workers also want to define what the problem behavior is, and discuss why the behavior is not the best choice. One does not want to sound as if they are scolding the youth, rather, one would want to provide advice and discuss why that behavior is not the best of choices. Children usually do not enjoy being scolded, and often will try to defy the authority figure if it sounds as if the youth is getting yelled at. Youth care workers provide necessities for the youth; making sure the youth’s residential environment can maintain safe as well as promote growth development. There is a chance the youth stole food because they did not have food in their household. The youth care worker would find a way to provide adequate nutrition to the youth. Another …show more content…
The youth care worker needs to show empathy while counseling the youth. If one of the youth were to express how angry they feel about a situation, one cannot tell them to just calm down. The youth care worker would express empathy with their choice of word such as, “I understand that this situation makes you upset.” By expressing empathy, the youth will build a trust with the youth care worker. The youth care worker needs to able to identify personal issues with the patient. The youth might not be able to identify why their anger persisted to level; but if the youth care worker continues to work with the youth, they might be able to identify that the reason the youth acts out is because he never had a father figure in his life to be a positive role model. Finally, the youth care worker needs to understand both verbal and non-verbal communications when it comes to counseling. If the youth does not feel comfortable about sharing their family history of violence, they may not respond and demonstrate silence. The youth care worker will step back in order for the youth to not feel pressured. If the youth shares personal history, the youth care worker needs to demonstrate active listening skills. The youth care worker needs to remain
The job of a child welfare worker appears to be a demanding profession that promotes the child’s safety, but also strengthens the family organization around them in order to successfully raise the children. This child welfare workers work in the system known as the Child Protective Services whose initiative is to protect the overall welfare of the child. The short novel From the Eye of the Storm: the Experiences of a Child Welfare Worker by Cynthia Crosson-Tower demonstrates the skills necessary to deal with the practice of social work along with both its challenges and its happy moments. The novel consists of some of the cases involving Tower’s actual career in social work. In reading the book, I was able to experience some of the actual cases in which children dealt with physical and mental abuse from their families that caused them to end up within the system. Also, some of these children had issues in adapting to foster and adoptive families based on the issues they faced earlier in life. As we have learned earlier in the course, the violence that a child experiences early in life has an overall affect on the person they become as they grow into adulthood. When children deal with adverse childhood experiences, they are at a higher risk for abusing drugs and/or alcohol, increased likelihood of abusing their own child or spouse, higher rates of violent and nonviolent criminal behavior, along with several other issues throughout their lifespan.
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They assist with planning recreational activities, getting meals together, or doing laundry and along the way, assist the family to clearly understand young people and how to support them toward the goals they have (A child and youth care approach, Garfat and Shaw, 2003, pg. 1). 39-53).” Reaching the goals that a CYC sets for their clients can become the most important element of their lives. Additionally, their parent may require assistance and by reaching out to both the client and the parent, they are able to feed off each other’s progress.
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“The California Youth Authority is responsible for the protection of society form the criminal and delinquent behavior of young people(Hill, Legislative Analyst).” This is reached mainly through custodial control of these juveniles and the implementation of vocational, education, health, and mental health treatment services.
The use of the Children Act 2004 in day-to-day work with children and young people allows multi-disciplinary teams to shared information, which is used to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people known to one or more agencies. The interests of the child are paramount. In the setting, a specifically trained member of staff will be appointed to supervise safeguarding and child protection.
The juvenile justice system faces a significant challenge in identifying and responding to the psychiatric disorders of detained youth because research has shown that it is difficult to define the best means to use and enhance the scarce mental health resources (Kessler & Kraus, 2007). According to Cocozza and Skowyra (2000) “Children’s and adolescents’ mental health needs have historically been addressed inadequately in policy, practice, and research and have only the number of youth with mental illness and their level of unmet needs recognized” (p 4). Furthermore, that the juvenile justice system has gone from treatment and rehabilitation to retribution and punishment, that the prevalence is higher for youths who are involved with the system have mental health disorders when compared to the general population. In this paper I will be discussing pathways of juvenile detentions, types of mentally ill juvenile offenders, working alliance, treatment/intervention options available, challenges of untreated mental illness, and research findings.
Parents should be more involved with their children’s lives, and try to discipline and set rules at an early age. It is better for a juvenile to be confined rather than him/her influencing average teenagers to follow in his footsteps. It is a sad day when a teenager has to spend his/her days in a juvenile facility rather than outside enjoying his freedom and childhood. Children, who attend these programs and cannot cope with the challenges, can be easily abused. The risk in enrolling these teenagers into such disciplinary programs may either break them or make them improve their behaviors and quality of life. Teenagers who come out of these camps are stronger, disciplined, educated and even become role models to other teens can someday help other delinquents. In order to change someone’s life, one must first change his/her actions and
The quagmire of placing juveniles in adult facilities is the risk factors juveniles may experience while incarcerated. Being that juveniles are young and smaller to the adult offenders, they may be seen as a prey or easy target for rape, assault, mental issues which eventually leads to suicide. We must keep in mind that juveniles are youth meaning they are still a child, not an adult and should not be exposed to adult incarceration environment. Although it is cost saving to place juveniles and adults under one facility, it is unethical because they are not built and yet mentally ready and prepared to experience adult facilities. Alternative strategies are available to assist juvenile detainees such as healthcare, education, recreation, and work experience. The Juvenile Court Act of 1899 gave leniency to youth under the age of 16. Placing youth detainees with adult offenders will result in the reduction of rehabilitation services for youth, while increasing the rate of being a victim as a potential prey o...
A Child Protective Service worker is a career that can be mentally and physically exhausting with emotional upheaval and wonderfully rewarding all at the same time. This paper discusses several “best practices’, their descriptions, and how they are put in use to assist the children who need help and the parents who unwillingly become a part of the Child Welfare system; even though they count on the system to help them better themselves and the lives of their children. Child Protective Service workers require extensive training, vast knowledge, multiple values, and strong ethics to effectively assist this
A large burden is placed on families when youth are incarcerated. There is not only the pain of being separated, but it also prevents families from being involved in the juvenile’s life, which is a barrier to the child’s recovery, future, and
Unlike adult criminal proceedings, juvenile court hearings are often closed to members of the public and records are often confidential, protecting children from carrying the burdens of their delinquent activity into adulthood. I have very strong hopes in the government that they will end the students going into to prison. Educational and therapeutic programming may be provided in the child’s community or the child may be placed out of the home in a residential program. Since 1975, Juvenile Law Center has worked to the best of their ability to ensure that youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system have robust and meaningful rights, access to education and developmentally appropriate treatment, and opportunities to become healthy and productive adults. Juvenile Law Center have also sought to improve conditions of youth in the juvenile or criminal justice systems, and has worked to ensure that youth are treated fairly, and have access to counsel, at every stage of court processing.
When a teen becomes violent, it can be hard for parents, especially those with younger children also in the house, to know how to exactly handle the situation. The most important thing is that you keep yourself and the other children safe from harm. It can be hard for a parent to accept that they are being victimized by their children, but recognition is the first step towards resolution.
Juvenile detention centers are secured (for major offense) and non-secure (for minor offense) facilities where troubled youths who have committed crimes are sentenced to for a short period of time or while they are awaiting their court date. This essay is about juvenile detention centers meeting the needs of the children as far as education, mental illness, and what we can try to do to make things better. The number of youths that are incarcerated is increasing and will continue to increase if we don't help our kids grow to become productive by showing them the different ways and outcomes of life. I know that it is hard to shadow your child and keep them in a bubble especially when your living in a bad area and can't afford to move. We as parents