In granting a mother decision-making authority regarding her children getting vaccinated against COVID-19, a Hamilton judge erred in relying heavily on the anti-vaccine posts the woman submitted to the court - "nothing but something someone wrote and published on the internet," Ontario's top co...
This chapter proposes a model of parenting capacity based on literature to date, and describes application of the model to practice. An assessment instrument is described based on the proposed model of parenting capacity, together with preliminary data. The model and the assessment instrument are ...
A Profile of Child Welfare Workers in Ontario: Workforce Change between 1993 and 2013Kristen Lwin, MSW
the judge may ask the older or more mature children to choose the parent they would prefer to live with. Whenever there is a change in circumstances, the courts may alter the terms of child custody upon application by a parent.
Child welfare in Ontario has been the object of much scrutiny over the last two decades. The field has experienced a great deal of change as the focus of child welfare shifts to meet the latest political agenda. The mandated role of Children's Aid Societies has remained constant with child ...
Dr. Warshak’s paper describes how some parents manipulate names to change the way children relate to and identify with their other parent. These practices include using pejorative labels to refer to the target of alienation, encouraging children to refer to a parent by first name, and referring...
Patient- and family-centered care (FCC) has been considered an important aspect of medical care over the last 20 years. FCC is focused on the mutually beneficial partnership and relationship between medical provider, patients, and families with an emphasis on collaboration [1]. This change in pe...
This study explored the potential for parents to create social change in Ontario's current system of child protection. Concepts of social justice and participatory action research (PAR) were used to focus the inquiry and provided boundaries for data collection, analysis and dissemination (Morse, ...
Child welfare in Ontario has been the object of much scrutiny over the last two decades. The field has experienced a great deal of change as the focus of child welfare shifts to meet the latest political agenda. The mandated role of Children's Aid Societies has remained constant with child ...