Child Protection and the Care Continuum (eBook, ePUB)

Theoretical, Empirical and Practice Insights
Redaktion: Fernandez, Elizabeth; Delfabbro, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This important new book critically examines the complex policy and practice issues surrounding child protection, including the impact of theoretical orientations, contemporary debates, policy initiatives and research findings, and maintains an emphasis on the ethics and values underpinning child welfare interventions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000281415
• Artikelnr.: 60489505

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Fernandez is Professor of Social Work, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. She teaches courses in Life Span Development, Child and Family Welfare Practice and Research. Her research focuses on child and family poverty, early intervention and family support, pathways and outcomes for children in care, including reunification of separated children and outcomes of care leavers. She has led several Australian Research Council funded research studies focusing on these themes and has published widely. She is Associate Editor for Children and Youth Services Review and The Journal of Child and Family Studies. She is recipient of the 2019 International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) Award in honour of Alfred J. Khan and Sheila Kamerman in recognition of outstanding contribution to the field of child indicators research from an international perspective. Paul Delfabbro completed his PhD in Psychology in 1998 and has been employed by the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, Australia, since 2001 in a combined teaching and research position. He was appointed to Professor in 2014. His principal research areas are behavioural addictions, applied cognition and child protection. He has published over 250 refereed journal articles and another 100 government reports, book chapters and conference papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The context of child and family welfare. 1. Policy and Trends in
Child Welfare in Australia and the Global Context. 2. Theoretical and Value
Frameworks Underpinning Work with Children and Families. 3. Children's
Rights and the Protective Care Continuum. Part 2: Child abuse and neglect.
4. Working with Cases of Neglect and Emotional Abuse. 5. Child Sexual
Abuse. 6. Assessment in Child Protection. 7. Child Protection and the Role
of the Children's Court. 8. Therapeutic Approaches to Children and Families
in Child Protection Contexts. Part 3: The protective care continuum. 9.
Prevention and Early Intervention with Children, Young People, and
Families. 10. Foster Family Care as a Response to Child Maltreatment. 11.
Kinship Care in Australia and the United Kingdom 12. Therapeutic
Residential Care 13. Educational Interventions that Improve the Attainment
and Progress of Children in Out-of-home Care. 14. Reunification in
Out-of-home Care 15. Creating a Family Life for a Child through Adoption.
16. Beyond Care: Identities, transitions and outcomes. Part 4: Children,
parents and carers as stakeholders. 17. Child Protection and Child
Participation. 18. The Right of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Children and Families to Effective Child Protection Services 19. Engaging
First Mothers, Fathers and Grandparents in the Care Continuum. 20.
Responding to Carers' Needs.