Child Welfare Services: Developments in Law, Policy, Practice and Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853023167 ISBN 13: 9781853023163

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

The contributors to this book provide a comprehensive review of child care policy and practice. They present evaluations and critiques of new or impending legislation and policies, and describe innovative services for children and young people who are deemed to be in need of protection, care or control as a result of abandonment, neglect, ill-treatment, offending or other difficulties. They also examine changes in adoption law, where such issues as placement policies in relation to children from ethnic minorities, intercountry adoption and the trend towards greater openness have become prominent and controversial in recent years.

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Review:

If readers take the time to look at less familiar areas they will not be disappointed. If this occurs the volume can truly be said to have been effective in deepening the readers' knowledge of and respect for other practitioners and their clients. Author: International Social Work

In recent years, social work with children and families has become so dominated by investigations and monitoring that therapeutic work has been pushed aside. The Department of Health (1995) has put the case for redressing the balance and this book provides a welcome overview of how we can, effectively, help parents and children. The editor makes the case for an evidence based approach to practice. Each chapter presents a different therapeutic approach, giving a summary of the key elements and the underlying theory, a discussion on the available evidence on effectiveness, and an indication of when and how it can be used in practice. The range of methods covered include community, family and individual work. They also range from early years interventions designed to prevent problems, to services for children who have been the victims of abuse. This well-written book gives an excellent overview of current evidence on ways of helping families and is a valuable resource for social workers, whether as purchasers or providers of services. Author: Professional Social Work

From the Author:

Malcolm Hill is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study if the Child and Society at the University of Glasgow. Jane Aldgate OBE is Professor Emerita at the Open University and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853023167
• ISBN 13: 9781853023163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Malcolm Hill And Jane Aldgate