The Role of Adoption Social Workers

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This paper discusses the issues surrounding the role that the adoption social worker plays in finding good families to adopt children. The paper also explains the qualities needed for this job and the challenges it involves.

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Social problem or human need focused upon and clients
Setting or types of agencies/organizations where practice takes place
Functions of adoptive social work: duties, responsibilities or specific assignments
Functions of adoptive social work: knowledge and skills necessary for the social worker to effectively perform her/his duties
Challenges

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"As couples wait longer and longer to have children, the reality prospective parents often face is that their fertility has declined over the years. The increase in the number and range of options for adoptive parents, including interracial adoption and international adoption, has caused a corresponding increase in the need for and demand for adoption social workers. The primary goal of the adoption social worker is to find good families for children and to protect the rights of the children being adopted, along with the rights of the adoptive and birth parents as well. The clients of adoptive social workers may include birth and adoptive parents and extended families, private and public agencies, and also older children undergoing the adoptive process as adoptees. The social workers may have contact with international organizations in cases of international adoption ("Social workers," 2008, Encyclopedia of Adoption)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• New York Homestudy. (2008). Domestic and International Adoptive Home Study Service. Retrieved 7 Apr 2008 at http://nyhomestudy.com/index.htm
• "Social workers." (2008). Encyclopedia of Adoption. Adoption Media. Retrieved 7 Apr 2008 at http://encyclopedia.adoption.com/entry/social-workers/336/1.html
• "Social workers." (2008). U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 7 Apr 2008 at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm#training
• Vieni, Miriam. (2008). "Some good reasons to take courses on adoption." New York Home Study Retrieved 7 Apr 2008 at http://www.nyhomestudy.net/category/original-articles/
• Wolfgram, Susan M. (2008, Apr). "Openness in adoption: What we know so far--A critical review of the literature." Social Work. 53. 2:133-142

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