When a child welfare client dies: an agency-centered perspective.
When working with vulnerable children and their families, the specter of client death for child welfare workers and agencies is recognized as a rare but unsparingly real event. This article uses an agency-centered perspective to explore the multilayered steps agencies may implement at the supervisory through administrative levels to build agency-wide support for workers to cope and perform well during such crises.
Gustavsson
Nora
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School of Social Work, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1802, USA.
MacEachron
Ann E
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D000328:Adult; D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000523:psychology*; D003643:Death; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D012944:Social Support; D012947:Social Work; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*