Child Welfare Practice with Immigrant Children and Families (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dettlaff, Alan; Fong, Rowena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text addresses critical practice, policy, and workforce issues necessary for culturally competent practice with Latino, Asian, and African immigrant children and families who come to the attention of child welfare systems.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317979036
• Artikelnr.: 57081610

Autorenporträt

Alan Dettlaff is Assistant Professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Dettlaff practised for several years in public child welfare as a practitioner and administrator, where he specialized in investigations of child maltreatment. Dr. Dettlaff's research interests focus on improving outcomes for children of colour in the child welfare system through the elimination of racial disparities. Dr. Dettlaff is also Principal Investigator of the Jane Addams Child Welfare Training Project, which provides advanced training and financial assistance to students pursuing careers in child welfare. Rowena Fong is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked with immigrants in the communities of Boston, San Francisco, Honolulu, and Austin. Her current research is focused on the needs and services available to international and domestic victims of human trafficking. She has over 100 publications and is the author of six books, of which three are about culturally competent practice.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Immigrant Children and Families and Child Welfare Alan Dettlaff 2.
Culturally Competent Practice in Public Child Welfare Rowena Fong 3.
Promoting Family Integrity: The Child Citizen Protection Act and its
Implications for Public Child Welfare Sunny Harris Rome 4. Learning How to
Dance with the Public Child Welfare System: Mexican Parents' Efforts to
Exercise Their Voice Cecilia Ayón, Eugene Aisenberg, and Pauline Erera 5. A
Review of Family-Based Mental Health Treatments That May Be Suitable for
Children in Immigrant Families Involved in the Child Welfare System Kya
Fawley-King 6. Child Welfare and Immigration in New Mexico: Challenges,
Achievements, and the Future Megan Finno and Maryellen Bearzi 7. Using
Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice
Robin Leake, Kathleen Holt, Cathryn Potter, and Debora M. Ortega 8.
Translating Knowledge for Child Welfare Practice Cross-Nationally Julie
Cooper Altman, GemJoy Barrett, Jenise Brown, Luvella Clark-Idusogie,
Yaminah McClendon, Tanya Ruiz, Chenelle Skepple, and Latarsha Thomas 9. An
Empirically Based Field-Education Model: Preparing Students for Culturally
Competent Practice with New Immigrants Alma J. Carten and Jeanne Bertrand
Finch