SOWK 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sixties Scoop, Restorative Justice, Stepfamily
19 Jan 2017
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Sowk chapter 7: social work practice with children. Best interest of the child: refers to the principle that the best interests of the child must be the primary consideration in all actions concerning the child. Child savers: middle-class philanthropists who saw the state, society"s moral decline, deficient parenting, and the hazards of urban life as evils from which children required saving. Battered child syndrome: a term coined by c. henry kempe that refers to injuries sustained by a child as a result of physical abuse, usually inflicted by an adult caregiver. Sixties scoop: refers to the practice that occurred from the 1960s-1980s of apprehending unusually high numbers of indigenous children and fostering or adopting them, largely to non-indigenous families. This removal led to further loss of cultural identity, contact with their families, and communities or origin, and in some cases, loss of their status under the indian act.
