The Tender Years: Toward Developmentally Sensitive Child Welfare Services for Very Young Children (Child Welfare: A Series in Child Welfare Practice, Policy & Research) - Hardcover

Berrick, Jill Duerr

9780195114522: The Tender Years: Toward Developmentally Sensitive Child Welfare Services for Very Young Children (Child Welfare: A Series in Child Welfare Practice, Policy & Research)

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ISBN 10: 0195114523 ISBN 13: 9780195114522

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

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The first few years of life are a time of unparalleled physical, intellectual, and emotional development. They can also be a time of neglect and abuse for this is the period when children are most likely to suffer mistreatment by their parents, and most likely to be placed in foster care. Today most children entering the child welfare system are very young and in most large states, infants are the largest group of children entering foster care each year. Social service systems are typically not designed for very young children, and as a result fail to serve their special needs. This shortcoming is significant because protecting very young children from physical harm is not enough; they must also be protected from developmental harm. This work offers an overview of child welfare systems. It examines child abuse reporting patterns and discusses placement in foster care, reunification, and adoption. It also looks at public child welfare practice, and features examples of the children and families served by this system.

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Extremely insightful to policy-makers and judicial officers who promulgate laws and make decisions daily. Will be helpful in training new lawyers and judges on the child welfare system. Great intro. for paralegal students. (Penny Willrich, Phoenix College)

Needed research, great supplemental resource, not too long, well illustrated, attractively done. (Elizabeth Watson, Andrews University)

Does a remarkable job of bringing together the cold reality of statistics and the heart of compassion for small children. Its justification for developmentally sensitive child welfare policy and practice is compelling; must reading for those preparing to work in child services. (Jim Kreider, Kansas University)

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