Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Current Issues and Future Directions
Herausgeber: Cameron, Gary; Adams, Gerald R; Coady, Nick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780889205185
• ISBN-10: 0889205183
• Artikelnr.: 23531640

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Current Issues
and Future Directions edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R.
Adams
Finding a Fit: Family Realities and Service Responses Gary Cameron
Positive Possibilities for Child and Family Welfare: Options for Expanding
the Anglo-American Child Protection Paradigm Gary Cameron, Nancy
Freymond, Denise Cornfield, and Sally Palmer
Mothers and Child Welfare Child Placements Nancy Freymond and Gary
Cameron
Canadian Child Welfare: System Design Dimensions and Possibilities for
Innovation Gary Cameron and Nancy Freymond
Using Intermediary Structures to Support Families: An International
Comparison of Practice in Child Protection Nancy Freymond
Aboriginal Child Welfare Deena Mandell, Joyce Clouston Carlson, Marshall
Fine, and Cindy Blackstock
Service Participant Voices in Child Welfare, Children's Mental Health and
Psychotherapy Marshall Fine, Sally Palmer, and Nick Coady
Placement Decisions and the Child Welfare Worker: Constructing Identities
for Survival Nancy Freymond
Professional Burnout in Social Service Organizations: A Review of Theory,
Research and Prevention Carol Stalker and Cheryl Harvey
Understanding and Preventing Employee Turnover Cheryl Harvey and Carol
Stalker
Treatment of Choice or a Last Resort? A Review of Residential Mental Health
Placements for Children and Adolescents Karen M. Frensch, Gary Cameron,
and Gerald R. Adams
Fundamental Considerations for Child and Family Welfare Nick Coady, Gary
Cameron, and Gerald Adams