Title

American Social Work Student Attitudes Towards Foster Youth Empowerment

Keywords

Empowerment; Foster youth; Social work education

Abstract

This study was conducted to provide child welfare researchers and social work educators with a better understanding of social work student attitudes towards foster youth empowerment, a practice whereby the adolescent and workers in the foster care system share power with one another. In order to identify correlates of support for foster youth empowerment, American students across all levels of the undergraduate and graduate programmes within one school of social work were surveyed. Results indicated that support for foster youth empowerment was stronger among students who received specialised training in child abuse and neglect. In conclusion, support for foster youth empowerment may be more strongly cultivated by population-specific material as opposed to the general social work curriculum.

Publication Date

11-1-2014

Publication Title

Child Abuse Review

Volume

23

Issue

6

Number of Pages

440-449

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2311

Socpus ID

84919841649 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84919841649

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