reaction paper to the assigned book, Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, (by Marc Parent).

1)    Marc Parent entered his tenure with NY City CPS holding high hopes that he would change the course of children’s lives by rescuing them from their circumstances and opening them up to a better life.  The book is set in a period in which CPS in New York City was full of issues.  Discuss the journey he made in his practice. Offer comparisons or distinctions that describe the similarities or differences in how you have approached your professional work so far.  How well do the accounts in this book resonate with your ideas about CPS work?  To what extent and how have these accounts altered your perceptions of CPS work?

•    If you have not had any volunteer, or intern or experience in working with children or in welfare, think about the semester and what you have imagined things to be, or how you would handle things.  Do you agree or disagree with the way Marc went about things.  Would you have done them differently?  What about the things that happened caused you to stop and think, or wonder what you would have done.  The instructions say ”
1.    Offer comparisons or distinctions that describe the similarities or differences in how you have approached your professional work so far.  How well do the accounts in this book resonate with your ideas about CPS work?  To what extent and how have these accounts altered your perceptions of CPS work?
If you have not had any work, you still had preconceived  ideas about how CPS work would be.  Discuss how the issues Marc deals with affects that and has it changed your thoughts about CPS.
This does lead into the second part somewhat, however the second part asks you to identify issues that could be ethical dilemmas for you.  Then you are to discuss an ethical dilemma you have had to deal with that has caused you to think seriously about your life path.  This may be in CPS or any other area of life you have been dealing with.  Therefore if you haven’t had experience with CPS, you still will have come into contact with some ethical dilemma.

2)    What are the most striking dilemmas and/or ambiguities related to CPS work that you identified in the book?  How might you have dealt with these issues similarly or differently?
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Have you encountered an ethical dilemma in your practice that shook your    equilibrium regarding what your response “should” be?  If so, what was the dilemma and how did you resolve or attempt to resolve the issue?

3)    Choose two case examples from the book and describe the CPS systemic factors or barriers that affected these investigations.  How might the investigation process have been changed in the absence of these systematic influences?

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