Event Title
Poster: Crisis or Crossroads? Child Welfare Professionals and Child Maltreatment Fatalities
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
9-5-2012 3:45 PM
End Time
9-5-2012 5:00 PM
Description
Annually, about 2,000 U.S. children die from maltreatment. Roughly 12% of the child welfare workforce will be directly faced with a maltreatment-related death each year. This poster will address child maltreatment fatalities and the child welfare profession by reporting on a multi-state study of child welfare workers (n=453) concerning maltreatment fatalities. Topics include: worker knowledge of risk factors, characteristics of workers who experience a maltreatment fatality, and the impact of a fatality on worker’s trauma symptomatology.
Poster: Crisis or Crossroads? Child Welfare Professionals and Child Maltreatment Fatalities
Moakley Atrium
Annually, about 2,000 U.S. children die from maltreatment. Roughly 12% of the child welfare workforce will be directly faced with a maltreatment-related death each year. This poster will address child maltreatment fatalities and the child welfare profession by reporting on a multi-state study of child welfare workers (n=453) concerning maltreatment fatalities. Topics include: worker knowledge of risk factors, characteristics of workers who experience a maltreatment fatality, and the impact of a fatality on worker’s trauma symptomatology.