Family Social Work

According to Lewis, C., Stenfert-Kroese, B. & O’Brien, A. (2015) the article titled, “Child and family social workers’ experiences of working with parents with intellectual disabilities are having children. The article's purpose is to establish design, methodology, approach findings of research limitations and implications, that originally value social workers that work with a child who has a learning disability and may offer the best form of treatment. There has been plenty of evidence shown throughout the years that “parents with intellectual disabilities are estimated to represent 1 percent of the population, a review of the court records in Leeds and Sheffield in 2000 found a percentage of 15.1 of carrying applicants whose main concern …show more content…
(Lewis, C., Stenfert-Kroese, B., & O’Brien, A. 2015, p.2). According to Lewis’ discussion about the “five super-ordinate themes”, they are each presented as an account that social workers experience when working with parents with intellectual disabilities, though the author does claim them completely separate from one another a social worker whose expertise is in helping families are not entirely and utterly uncommon than one may think. Social workers work with parents that have intellectual disabilities so they do not harm their children due to illness that they do not have complete and total control over. Evidence from Lewis, Stenfert-Kroese, and O’Brien’s article shows parents who work with social workers can reduce their risk of endangering their children. This process has been beneficial to parents and children so the family does not get separated due to the mental