Child Welfare

Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
Herausgeber: Kufeldt, Kathleen; McKenzie, Brad

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25 Risk Assessment in Child Welfare: Use and Misuse Jan Christianson-Wood This chapter examines the context of risk assessment and discusses two alternative approaches. It then focuses on the purpose of risk assessment in child protection, including a discussion of the potential for misuse of risk assessment in practice.  Implications for research, policy and practice are identified in the concluding section.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781554583300
• ISBN-10: 1554583306
• Artikelnr.: 32968538

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Table of Contents for
Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, 2nd edition,
edited by Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
Foreword Evariste Thériault
Preface Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
Acknowledgements
Setting the Context: Child Welfare Law in Canada Nicholas Bala
I. Insights from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Abuse and Neglect
1. Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect: Changing
Patterns of Reported Maltreatment, 1998 and 2003 Nico Trocmé, Barbara
Fallon, and Bruce MacLaurin
2. The Response of the Ontario Child Welfare System to Neglect: 1993 to
2003 Kate Schumaker, Barbara Fallon, and Nico Trocmé
3. Factors Associated with the Decision to Provide Ongoing Services: Are
Worker Characteristics and Organizational Location Important? Barbara
Fallon and Nico Trocmé
4. Canadian Child Welfare Worker Qualifications: Examining a Changing
National Profile Barbara Fallon, Bruce MacLaurin, Nico Trocmé, Jordan
Gail, and Carolyn Golden
5. Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect: Themes and
Implications Brad McKenzie and Kathleen Kufeldt
II. The Continuum of Care
Early Intervention and Support
6. Differential Response in Child Welfare: A New Early Intervention Model?
Brad McKenzie
7. Doing the Work: Child Protection Jobs in Centralized and Accessible
Service Delivery Models Gary Cameron, Nancy Freymond, and Lirondel
Cheyne-Hazineh
8. Child Welfare Interventions That Make Sense to Mothers Nancy Freymond
and Gary Cameron
9. Projet Famille: A Family Therapy Project for Neglectful Families
Michèle Brousseau, Madeleine Beaudry, Marie Simard, and Cécile Charbonneau
Out-of-Home Care
10. Foster Care: An Essential Part of the Continuum of Care Kathleen
Kufeldt
11. Finding the Best Home: A Comparative Analysis of Kinship and Foster
Care Placements Katharine Dill
12. A Bicultural Response to Children in Need of Care and Protection in New
Zealand Jill Worrall
13. Experiences of Foster Carers' Children: An Overview of the Research
Tracy Swan and Robert Twigg
14. Making Group Home Care a Positive Alternative, Not the Last Resort
James Anglin
15. The Changing Face of Adoption Kathleen Kufeldt
Youth Transitions
16. Factors Associated with Family Reunification among Adolescents in
Residential Care: A Quebec Perspective Marie-Claude Simard and
Marie-Andrée Poirier
17. Aging Out of Care and the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for
Intervention Varda Mann-Feder
18. Knock, Knock, Who's There...for Youth? The Experience of Support When
Aging Out of Foster Care Deborah Rutman and Carol Hubberstey
19. Providing a Seamless Continuum of Care: Themes and Implications
Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
III. Indigenous Issues in Child Welfare
20. Disproportionate Representation of Indigenous Children in Child Welfare
Systems: International Comparisons Clare Tilbury and June Thoburn
21. Understanding the Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in
Canada's Child Welfare System Vandna Sinha, Nico Trocmé, Cindy
Blackstock, Bruce MacLaurin, and Barbara Fallon
22. From Child Protection to Community Caring in First Nations Child and
Family Services Brad McKenzie and Corbin Shangreaux
23. Wrap a Star Blanket around Each One: Learning from the Educational
Experiences of Indigenous Former Children in Care on Coast Salish Territory
Shelly Johnson (Mukwa Musayett)
24. Indigenous Issues in Child Welfare: Themes and Implications Brad
McKenzie and Kathleen Kufeldt
IV. Selected Practice Issues
25. Risk Assessment in Child Welfare: Use and Misuse Jan
Christianson-Wood
26. Engaging with Fathers in Child Welfare Christopher Walmsley, Leslie
Brown, Marilyn Callahan, Lena Dominelli, and Susan Strega
27. Critical Issues of Practice and Protection in Relation to Families and
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Dorothy Badry
28. Children with Disabilities in Care in Manitoba Don Fuchs
29. Child Welfare Challenges for Developing Nations Myrna McNitt
30. Selected Practice Issues: Themes and Implications Kathleen Kufeldt
and Brad McKenzie
V. The Search for Best Practice
31. Family-Centred Child Welfare Practice Alexandra Wright and Diane
Hiebert-Murphy
32. Using Looking After Children Data to Link Research to Policy and
Practice in Out-of-Home Care Sarah Wise and Ruth Champion
33. The Looking After Children Approach in Quebec: An Evaluation of the
Experiences of Youth, Caseworkers, and Foster Parents Marie-Andrée
Poirier, Marie-Claude Simard, Véronique Noel, and Béatrice Decaluwe
34. Guided Practice in Australia: Research, Implementation, and Child and
Family Perspectives on Looking After Children and the Assessment Framework
Deirdre Cheers, Elizabeth Fernandez, Jude Morwitzer, and Sue Tregeagle
35. Resiliency: Embracing a Strength-Based Model Evaluation and Care
Provision Tyrone Donnon and Wayne Hammond
36. The National Child Welfare utcomes Indicator Matrix (NOM) and Its
Application in a Child Welfare Agency Nico Trocmé, Tonino Esposito,
Meghan Mulcahy, Lorry Coughlin, Barbara Fallon, Bruce MacLaurin, and Aron
Shlonsky
37. Implementing the Integrated Children's System in the United Kingdom: A
Summary of the Main Findings Jane Scott
38. The Search for Best Practice: Themes and Implications Kathleen
Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
VI. The Future of Child Welfare
39. Critical Issues in Current Practice Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad
McKenzie
40. The Policy, Practice, and Research Connection: Are We There Yet?
Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
References
List of Contributors
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
James Anglin is a professor in the School of Child and Youth Care,
University of Victoria.
Dorothy Badry is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work,
University of Calgary, where her research focuses on child welfare and
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Nicholas Bala is a professor at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University, and
an expert in issues related to children, families, and the justice system.
Madeleine Beaudry is a professor, now retired, from the School of Social
Work, Laval University, in Quebec City.
Cindy Blackstock is Executive Director of the First Nations Child and
Family Caring Society of Canada.
Michèle Brousseau is an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work,
Laval University, in Quebec City, and former researcher at the Centre
Jeunesse de Québec-Institut universitaire, also in Quebec City.
Leslie Brown is the Associate Dean of Research of the Faculty of Human and
Social Development, University of Victoria.
Marilyn Callahan is Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Work,
University of Victoria.
Gary Cameron is a professor and Lyle S. Hallman Chair in Child and Family
Welfare in the Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Ruth Champion is Senior Policy and Program Advisor with the Children, Youth
and Families Division of the Department of Human Services in Melbourne,
Australia.
Cécile Charbonneau is a researcher from Quebec City.
Deirdre Cheers is Executive Director Centacare Broken Bay, a Catholic
agency providing a range of family services, including residential and
foster care, in New South Wales, Australia. In a previous role with
Barnardos Australia, she was responsible for the implementation of the
Looking After Children system within this agency.
Jan Christianson-Wood is a Senior Manager at the General Child and Family
Services Authority of Manitoba.
Lorry Coughlin is the manager of clinical information systems for the
Division of Professional Services at Batshaw Youth and Family Centres in
Montreal.
Béatrice Decaluwe is a doctoral candidate at the School of Psychology,
Laval University, in Quebec City.
Katharine Dill is Executive Director of Practice and Research Together
(PART) in Ontario.
Lena Dominelli is a professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences,
Durham University, Durham, England.
Tyrone Donnon is an associate professor in the Department of Community
Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Tonino Esposito is a doctoral candidate at McGill University, and the
researcher and data coordinator of the Royal Bank Children Services Data
Laboratory at McGill University's Centre for Research on Children and
Families.
Barbara Fallon is an assistant professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of
Social Work, University of Toronto.
Elizabeth Fernandez is an associate professor in the School of Social
Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, in
Sydney, Australia, and coordinator of the postgraduate research degree
program.
Nancy Freymond is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work,
Wilfrid Laurier University.
Don Fuchs is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of
Manitoba, and a founding member of the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium.
Jordan Gail is a social worker in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Carolyn Golden is a family services worker at the Catholic Children's Aid
Society of Toronto.
Wayne Hammond is the Executive Director, Resiliency Canada, and an adjunct
assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences,
University of Calgary.
Lirondel Cheyne-Hazineh is currently Research Coordinator at Pathways to
Education in Kitchener, Ontario, and a past researcher with the
Partnerships for Children and Families Project at Wilfrid Laurier
University.
Diane Hiebert-Murphy is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the
University of Manitoba.
Carol Hubberstey is a principal of Nota Bene Consulting Group, based in
Victoria, British Columbia.
Shelly Johnson (Mukwa Musayett) is an assistant professor in the School of
Social Work and Human Service, Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops,
British Columbia. She is Saulteaux from Keeseekoose First Nation.
Kathleen Kufeldt is an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick
and former Chair in Child Protection at Memorial University of
Newfoundland.
Bruce MacLaurin is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work,
University of Calgary.
Varda Mann-Feder is an associate professor of Applied Human Sciences at
Concordia University in Montreal.
Brad McKenzie is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the
University of Manitoba.
Myrna McNitt is a lecturer in social work at Dominican University Graduate
School of Social Work in River Forest, Illinois, with research and practice
interests in child welfare and juvenile justice.
Jude Morwitzer is Senior Manager of the Practice Development Centre with
Barnardos Australia, a major Australian non-governmental provider of family
support and child placement services, including foster care, adolescent
community placement, and adoption.
Meghan Mulcahy is a mental health social worker in Nova Scotia.
Véronique Noel is a researcher with the Commission des droits de la
personne et des droits de la jeunesse in Quebec.
Marie-Andrée Poirier is a professor at the School of Social Work,
Université de Montréal, and co-director of the Groupe de recherche et
d'action sur la victimisation des enfants (GRAVE).
Deborah Rutman is an adjunct associate professor and senior research
associate with the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, and a
principal of Nota Bene Consulting Group, based in Victoria, B.C.
Kate Schumaker is a doctoral student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of
Social Work, University of Toronto.
Jane Scott is a consultant who has managed many complex research and
development projects in the United Kingdom.
Corbin Shangreaux is the administrator of Southeast Child and Family
Services, and has held a number of senior administrative and consulting
positionsin First Nations child and family services.
Aron Shlonsky is an associate professor of social work at the University of
Toronto, where he holds the Factor-Inwentash Chair in Child Welfare and
directs the Bell Canada Child Welfare Research Unit and the Ontario Child
Abuse and Neglect Data System.
Marie Simard is Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Work, Laval
University, in Quebec City.
Marie-Claude Simard is a social worker and researcher at the Centre
jeunesse de Québec-Institut universitaire and an associate professor at the
School of Social Work, Laval University, in Quebec City.
Vandna Sinha is an associate professor at the Centre for Research on
Children and Families at McGill University.
Susan Strega is an associate professor in the School of Social Work,
University of Victoria.
Tracy Swan is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work, Memorial
University of Newfoundland/Labrador.
June Thoburn is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of East
Anglia, Norwich, England.
Clare Tilbury is an associate professor at the School of Human Services and
Social Work, Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia.
Sue Tregeagle is Senior Manager, Program Services and Research, with
Barnardos Australia, a major non-government provider of family support and
child placement services, including foster care, adolescent community
placement, and adoption.
Nico Trocmé is a professor of social work at McGill University, where he
holds the Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work and directs the Centre for
Research on Children and Families.
Robert Twigg recently retired from the Faculty of Social Work, University
of Regina.
Christopher Walmsley is an associate professor, School of Social Work and
Human Service, Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Sarah Wise is the General Manager Policy, Research and Innovation at
Anglicare Victoria, based in Melbourne, Australia.
Jill Worrall has retired from the position of Senior Lecturer in Social
Work and is now an Honorary Research Associate at Massey University in New
Zealand.
Alexandra Wright is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work at
the University of Manitoba.