Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare
eBook - PDF

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Current Issues and Future Directions

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Current Issues and Future Directions

About this book

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international child welfare paradigms—child protection, family service, and community healing/caring (First Nations)—to look at how specific practices in other countries, as well as alternative experiments in Canada, might foster positive innovations in the Canadian child welfare approach.

Foundational values and purposes, systems design and policy, and organization and management are discussed, as are front-line service delivery, service provider work environments, and the realities of daily living for families. Informed by recent research, the contributors provide clear directions for policy, administration, and service-delivery reforms. Informing policy debates addressing child maltreatment and family welfare, this book will serve as a vital resource for managers, service providers, professionals, and students in the fields of social work, child and youth care, family studies, psychology, and special education.

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Yes, you can access Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, Gerald R. Adams, Gary Cameron,Nick Coady,Gerald R. Adams in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: Finding a Fit: Family Realities and Service Responses
  3. 1 Positive Possibilities for Child and Family Welfare: Expanding the Anglo-American Child Protection Paradigm
  4. 2 Mothers and Child Welfare Child Placements
  5. 3 Aboriginal Child Welfare
  6. 4 Using Intermediary Structures to Support Families: An International Comparison of Practice in Child Protection
  7. 5 Service Participant Voices in Child Welfare, Children's Mental Health, and Psychotherapy
  8. 6 Placement Decisions and the Child Welfare Worker: Constructing Identities for Survival
  9. 7 Understanding and Preventing Burnout and Employee Turnover
  10. 8 Pathways to Residential Children's Mental Health Services: Parents' Perceptions of Service Availability and Treatment Outcomes
  11. 9 Fundamental Considerations for Child and Family Welfare
  12. Index