WU Social Services For Childhood Traumas Discussion

Preventing the need for social services as well as improving social services is a major goal of social workers. Social workers are on the front lines in a variety of social service entities, and many social workers choose the field of child welfare. Childhood trauma can affect an individual’s health across their lifespan.

For this Discussion, you will consider a discovery about the effect of childhood trauma and dialogue with your colleagues about how this knowledge of childhood trauma might affect the provision of social services.

LEARNING RESOURCES

DiNitto, D. M., & Johnson, D. H. (2016). Social welfare: Politics and public policy (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Chapter 10, “Providing Social Services: Help for Children, Older Americans, and Individuals With Mental and Substance Use Disorders” (pp. 369–426)

Required Media

• Harris, N. B. (2014, September). Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetimeLinks to an external site. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_… 

TO PREPARE
Watch the Nadine Burke Harris: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime.

Post 

• Explain how the repeated stress described in the video affects how you view policies related to one of the following social services:

Financial services

Hunger services

Employment services

• Describe one social service that might improve early intervention to counter or mitigate repeated stress at an early age.

Explain why the social service you recommend might make a difference.