Residential Care of Children

Comparative Perspectives
Herausgeber: Courtney, Mark E; Iwaniec, Dorota

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Residential Care of Children fills major gaps in knowledge about residential care of children, and is sure to inform ongoing debates within and between nations about the appropriate use of such institutions. This insight-filled book will be required reading for all child welfare scholars, particularly as international perspectives become increasingly emphasized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780195309188
• ISBN-10: 0195309189
• Artikelnr.: 25446356

Autorenporträt

Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D., is the Ballmer Chair for Child Well-Being in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is also Executive Director of Partners for Our Children, a child welfare research, development and training center at the university. Dr. Courtney previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, where he was Director of the Chapin Hall Center for Children from 2001 to 2006, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on child welfare services and policy. Dorota Iwaniec, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Social Work and former Director of the Institute of Child Care Research at Queen's University Belfast. Professor Iwaniec is well known for her extensive work in the areas of emotional abuse and neglect and failure to thrive in children, having authored nearly a hundred scientific and practice papers, many chapters in edited books, and several books on the subject of child care and child protection. Her writing is influenced by continuous practice and empirical evidence.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction by the Editors (Mark E. Courtney and Dorota Iwaniec)
* 1: "Residential Care in Ireland" by Robbie Gilligan
* 2: "Residential Care in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland"
(Roger Bullock and Dominic McSherry)
* 3: "Swedish Residential Care in the Landscape of Out-of- Home Care"
(Marie Sallnäs )
* 4: "Residential Care for Children in Romania: A model for child
protection reform in Central and Eastern Europe" (Ovidiu Gavrilovici)
* 5: "Residential Care for Children 'At Risk' in Israel - Current
Situation and Future Challenges" (Talal Dolev, Dalia Ben Rabi, and
Tamar Zemach Marom)
* 6: "Residential Care for Children in Botswana" (Tapologo Maundeni)
* 7: "Residential Care in South Africa" (Brian Stout)
* 8: "Residential Care in Korea: Past, Present and Future" (Bong Joo
Lee)
* 9: "Residential Programs for Young People in Australia: Their Current
Status and Use in Australia" (Frank Ainsworth and Patricia Hansen)
* 10: "Children and Youth in Institutional care in Brazil: Historical
Perspectives and Current Overview" (Irene Rizzini and Irma Rizzini)
* 11: "Residential Care in the United States of America: Past, Present
and Future" (Mark E. Courtney and Darcy Hughes-Heuring)
* 12: "Looking Backward To See Forward Clearly: A Cross-National
Perspective on Residential Care" (Mark E. Courtney, Talal Dolev, and
Robbie Gilligan)