Child Protective Services Interview (CPS)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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00:00 Introducing "Rachel" and working for CPS
08:01 What ties CPS' hands?
16:32 What motivates Rachel?
21:14 CPS' jurisdiction
33:01 Power & autonomy in social work
40:09 How would Rachel change the system?
48:47 What does Rachel want to tell the world about CPS?
49:55 What has Rachel disagreed with Dr. Kirk on?
57:31 CPS and the short end of the stick
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January 1, 2014
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Desirant listeners, we have a very special guest with us today. |
| 0:04.1 | She is going to remain anonymous because we want to get into talking about her experiences at work in which she works for the government and we're not |
| 0:18.3 | identifying which government it could be anywhere in the world but what she does is she works with child safety for the government. |
| 0:28.6 | These positions have different titles around the world like child protective services |
| 0:35.8 | this kind of thing. We're also not identifying that because we want to I want to learn about anonymous is what what what name should we |
| 0:47.8 | refer to you as I know I was thinking about that I was like oh wait but let's go with Rachel. Rachel, okay, Rachel. |
| 0:56.0 | Rachel, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. It's pleasure for having me. Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | And I will at times as you know talk about child protective services or other sorts of workers for the government and |
| 1:17.1 | there's a lot of nuances to it but one of the things that I'm often ranting about is the public tends to look down or blame CPS, child protective |
| 1:27.9 | services whenever there's a problem. And certainly there are social workers and governmental agency employees who are at fault and there are some famous cases of that. |
| 1:40.0 | But generally speaking, these are bleeding heart, compassionate, overworked, underpaid, underappreciated people who are lying awake at night staring into the darkness worrying about all the |
| 1:56.0 | kids that are being harmed you know and and and you just describe my Friday night |
| 2:01.7 | that's yeah. |
| 2:03.0 | So tell me more. |
| 2:04.0 | Tell me more about your experience please. |
| 2:05.8 | Rachel. |
| 2:06.8 | Well, so you know what it's it's funny. |
| 2:10.7 | I for a really long time. I'm just to refer to it as CPS I think that's |
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