Critical Issues in Child Welfare
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-16078-0 (ISBN)
Reorganized for more effective classroom use, the second edition of Critical Issues in Child Welfare begins with an updated, thorough overview of the challenges currently facing at-risk children and families. A description of the child welfare system highlights issues that are discussed in more detail throughout the book. The text explores protective services, family preservation, foster care and residential care, adoption, services for adolescents, and training and retention of staff. New material highlights the recent discoveries of the impact of early trauma and stress on children's development, and the modifications currently taking place in the child welfare system in response to this new information. The book also examines the critical challenges of poverty and substance abuse, the importance of the community in shaping child welfare services, racial disproportionality in the system, the changing response of the system to LGBT issues, and services to ameliorate the difficulties of youth leaving the system.
Joan Foster Shireman is emerita professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University and coauthor of Adoption: Theory, Policy, and Practice and Care and Commitment: Foster Parent Adoption Decisions. An established expert on child welfare policy and practice, she also writes on single parent and transracial adoption, foster care, and the experiences of workers and families in protective services.
Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction: Social Work and Child Welfare 1. The Context of Child Welfare Services 2. The Child Welfare Services System, with Katharine Cahn 3. Child Protective Services 4. Family Support and Child Well-being, with Karen Tvedt 5. Crisis Intervention: Preservation of Families for Children 6. Investment in Foster Care 7. Out-of-Home Care for Children with Special Needs 8. Adoption 9. Youth in Transition, with Miranda Cunningham 10. Concluding Thoughts Appendix: Internet Resources About the Contributors Index
Reihe/Serie | Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-231-16078-X / 023116078X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-16078-0 / 9780231160780 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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