Approaches to Practice
Strengths based practice, culturally safe practice, trauma informed practice
What are the three approaches to practice?
This is the part of the CFSCA that provides a lost of curcumstances in which a child is in need of protection.
What is Section 13?
MCFD’s primary concern when physical punishment is used in a caregiving environment.
What is the safety and well-being of the child?
True or False: there are certain genes that make a child more sensitive to the effects of maltreatment.
What is true
This framework guides child welfare practice in BC to ensure services are culturally appropriate for Indigenous children, youth, and families.
What is the Aboriginal Policy and Practice Framework (APPF)?
An approach that recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma and how trauma affects all individuals involved.
What is a way to utilize trauma informed practice?
The code for when the parent is not protecting their child from serious harm or threatened harm.
What is Unwilling/Unable
This section of the CFCSA outlines when a child may need protection, including situations involving physical harm or risk.
What is Section 13?
There is always one (or more than one)______ that is key to providing the relationship that helps to build resilience.
What is an adult?
One of the APPF’s core principles is recognizing and respecting the cultural identity, traditions, and connections of Indigenous children.
What is cultural continuity?
An approach that identifies client strengths as resources and mobilizing those resources to address the issue.
What is a way to utilize strengths based practice?
SDM tools such as Safety Assessment, Risk Assessment, Family Strengths and needs Assessment and Reunification.
What tools do social workers use to assess maltreatment risk?
This approach helps social workers understand a child’s behavior as a response to trauma and promotes safety, trust, and empowerment.
What is trauma-informed practice?
What is the analogy used to explain resiliency?
What is a scale?
This APPF principle emphasizes working alongside Indigenous communities and respecting their knowledge, traditions, and decision-making.
What is collaboration with Indigenous communities?
An approach that begins with each of you in how you engage with others, navigate complexities and tensions and work to create safe environments.
What is a way to utilize culturally safe practice?
A safe/stable home, positive parenting skills, and strong family/community connection
What are protective factors that can reduce maltreatment?
These two indicators suggest that physical punishment may be crossing into reportable physical abuse under MCFD guidelines.
What are use of objects or force causing injury, and punishment that instills fear or emotional harm?
What is the title of the video we watched regarding resiliency?
What is the "Science of Resilience"?
The APPF was created to respond to the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in this provincial system.
What is the child welfare system?
The things we rely on to incorporate policy into our practice.
What are the SDM tools, Federal Act & CFCSA, Child Protection Response Policies?
Intimate Partner Violence often becomes a child protection concern when this occurs.
What is a family member getting injured, a child getting involved in the conflict, the use of weapons, and or threat to seriously harm/kill the children?
This balanced approach allows social workers to respect cultural practices while ensuring child safety is not compromised.
What is engaging in respectful dialogue, understanding cultural context, and following MCFD’s commitment to culturally safe practice?
Many authors define resilience as having two key parts. What are they?
(1) Exposure to adversity, and (2) a positive adaptation or adjustment
In alignment with the APPF, social workers must consider these three key factors when making decisions about Indigenous children’s care: their safety, their well-being, and this essential cultural connection.
What is connection to family, community, and culture?