Rick Barth and colleagues published an article in the Journal of Public Child Welfare on Poverty-responsive Child Welfare Services.
Professor Rick Barth, and colleagues, have published an article in the Journal of Teaching and Social Work about the concern that child welfare services (CWS) are oppressive. The article addresses forms of parental oppression and child oppression and helps clarifies what elements of oppression of both types might be mitigated with CWS reform and the primacy of reducing children's oppression in the delivery of child welfare services.
Berrick, J. D., Barth, R. P., Drake, B., Jonson-Reid, M., Garcia, A., Greeson, J. K. P., & Gyourko, J. (2025). Is Child Welfare Oppressive? Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 45(2), 362–383. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2025.2469544