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Paper Presentation

Child Welfare

Session: Impact of trauma on parenting: professional and personal perspectives

Centering the Relationship: Child Welfare Workers’ Experiences of Role Tensions With Teen Parents

Saturday, October 26, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 1501C
Foster care social workers must meet case management expectations with teen parents while surveilling for maltreatment. This qualitative study uses a relational perspective to examine the workers’ experiences with teen parent clients. Findings suggest meaningful connection-driven approaches often conflict with system values and role expectations, leading to moral injury.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Differentiate a foster care worker’s competing roles of connection and surveillance when working with teen parent clients.
  2. Describe the value of fit between the Relational Cultural Theory perspective and the case management responsibilities when working with teen parent clients.
  3. Critique gaps in relationally focused support offered to foster care workers who are assigned to teen parent cases.