Title: The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research (Modern Applications of Social Work)
Publisher: Aldine De Gruyter
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0202363147
ISBN 13: 9780202363141
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.5 pounds

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Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. In addition to describing the major problems facing the field, the book highlights service innovations that have been developed in recent years. The resulting picture is encouraging, especially if certain major program reforms I are implemented and agencies are able to concentrate resources in a focused manner.

The volume emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies. The book considers historical areas of service―foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services―where social work has an important role. Authors address the many fields of practice in which child and family services are provided or that involve substantial numbers of social work programs, such as services to adolescent parents, child mental health, education, and juvenile justice agencies.

This new edition will continue to serve as a fundamen-tal introduction for new practitioners, as well as summary of recent developments for experienced practitioners.

About the Author

Peter J. Pecora is senior director of research services for the Casey Family Programs and professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous professional articles and books. James K. Whittaker is Charles O. Cressey endowed professor in the School of Social Work, University of Washington. He is a frequent consultant on child care training. He is the series editor of Modern Applications of Social Work for Transaction Publishers.

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