Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention (6 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course addresses the most common type of child maltreatment: neglect. It examines the complexity of child neglect along with its causes, effects, assessment and treatment.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Author: Diane DePanfilis
Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Children and Families; Administration on Children, Youth, and Families; Children’s Bureau; Office on Child Abuse and Neglect
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/neglect.pdf
Program Objectives: Describe the impact of neglect. Identify risk and protective factors for neglect. Describe the assessment and intervention process for childhood neglect.
Learning Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to child neglect.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Read more:
Acts of Omission An Overview of Child Neglect
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/acts.pdf
What is Child Abuse and Neglect? Recognizing Signs and Symptoms
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubpdfs/whatiscan.pdf
Parenting A Child Who Has Experienced Abuse or Neglect
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/parenting_CAN.pdf