| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 520 pages : illustrations, map, charts ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Modern applications of social work |
|
Modern applications of social work.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 -- Purpose, goals, objectives, and key policies of child and family social services, with a special focus on child welfare -- 2 -- Child maltreatment: nature, prevalence, and the implications for social policy -- 3 -- Protecting children from child abuse and neglect by strengthening families and communities -- 4 -- Strengthening families through anti-poverty efforts -- 5 -- Family foster care and kinship care -- 6 -- Achieving permanency through family reunification, adoption, and guardianship -- 7 -- Juvenile justice and crossover youth in child welfare -- 8 -- Specialized treatment services for children and families -- 9 -- Leadership, staffing, and other organizational requisites for effective child and family services -- 10 -- International innovation in child and family services. |
| Summary |
"Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service-foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential treatment services-where social work has an important role. This fourth edition features new content on child maltreatment and prevention that is informed by key conceptual frameworks informed by brain science, public health, and other research. This edition uses cross-sector data and more sophisticated predictive and other analytical processes to enhance planning and practice design. The authors have streamlined content on child protective services (CPS) to allow for new chapters on juvenile justice/cross-over youth, and international innovations, as well as more content on biology and brain science. The fourth edition includes a glossary of terms as well as instructor and student resource papers available online"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- United States.
|
|
Child welfare. (OCoLC)fst00854709
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
|
Kinderfürsorge. (DE-588)4163817-7
|
|
Soziale Wohlfahrt. (DE-588)4128493-8
|
|
Kindesmisshandlung. (DE-588)4030650-1
|
|
Familienpolitik. (DE-588)4016418-4
|
|
Kinderschutz. (DE-588)4132262-9
|
|
United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
|
| Added Author |
Whittaker, James K., author.
|
|
Barth, Richard P., 1952- author.
|
|
Borja, Sharon, author.
|
|
Vesneski, William M., author.
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Pecora, Peter J. Child welfare challenge. 4th edition. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 9781351141161 (DLC) 2018008037 |
| ISBN |
9780815351658 hardcover |
|
0815351658 hardcover |
|
9780815351665 paperback |
|
0815351666 paperback |
|
