Question

• What kind of training and experience does a person/ social worker need before exploring issues of abuse with a child?

Answer 1

Any injury, mental torture, physical, emotional, sexual maltreatment by the parents or other people to the child comes under abusing the child. To explore whether the child is abused or not one has to look into the physical as well as the behavioral aspect of the child. Early identification of child abuse and treatment is important to save the child from further occurrence of the event.

The work of a social worker is to help people when they are in crisis it includes children, men, elderly people, and families.

The work of a social worker is difficult as they have to face different types of clients, in different situations. Sometimes they have to work extended hours or in shifts.

The social worker who works with the children her duty includes protecting the child from neglect, abuse, and different kind of maltreatment.

The social worker training should include 1. Assessing, learning, and understanding the needs of the child.

2. She should be able to communicate effectively with the children who are abused.

3. She should be well aware of the government policies and legal aspects to provide child protection against the abuse.

4. The social worker should be trained to effectively act in cases of crisis.

5. She should be able to demonstrate professional competence.

6. She should be accountable for her action.

7. The social worker should be able to provide a feeling of safety in the child.

It is important that social workers should understand the ethical and theoretical issues. Once the social worker is well trained in communicating with the children she can explore the cases of child abuse. To understand what the child wants to converse the social worker should be able to understand it from child action and facial expression besides physical check-up. A child will be frightened when he comes with the person who had abused him. It is the social worker's ability to recognize from the behavior of the child that the person accompanying him is his abuser because the child would be frightened if the abuser is with him, or he will look at the abuser before disclosing anything, The experience social worker is able to understand it.