TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1981//
TI  - Residential weekends for client families as an aid to case management
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Berger, V.
SP  - 309
EP  - 315
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper is a descriptive study of three weekends organised for a small group of client families of a Child Protection Unit of a State Welfare Department. Clients of the Child Life Protection Unit are those families with children up to the age of 6 years, i.e., the pie-school child where abuse has occurred or where a child is at severe risk of abuse. The purpose of the weekends was to assist in case management. Families were encouraged to participate in formal and informal activities as a group. Evaluation of the weekend was by way of a questionnaire answered by client families together with their informal responses and whether goals set down by the workers had been achieved after a period of time. It was found that comments made by the clients did have some co-relation with several goals which were nominated by the social workers. From the results obtained, the weekend was considered as a success in respect of most families who attended. It was particularly encouraging because the agency is a statutory agency where barriers in view of the workers' authority role are not easily overcome.<p />
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SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -