Child welfare research : advances for practice and policy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lindsey, Duncan, 1947-, Shlonsky, Aron
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology of child maltreatment / Nico Trocmé
  • Informing child welfare : the promise and limits of empirical research / Leroy H. Pelton
  • Providing more effective, ethical services : the philosophy and process of evidence-based (-informed) practice / Eileen Gambrill
  • How do we know what works? : the quality of published reviews of evidence-based practices / Julia H. Littell
  • The influence of an adoption experiment on social policy / Trudy Festinger
  • New permanency strategies for children in foster care / Mark Testa
  • The transition to adulthood among youth "aging out" of care : what have we learned? / Amy Dworsky
  • Moving restorative justice interventions into domestic violence treatment / Colleen Friend
  • A descriptive study of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment : implications for child welfare policy / Lynette M. Renner, Kristen Shook Slack, Lawrence M. Berger
  • Decision making in child welfare : constraints and potentials / Eileen Gambrill
  • Lessons from research on decision-making / Eileen Munro
  • Assessing risk throughout the life of a child welfare case / Judith S. Rycus, Ronald C. Hughes
  • Improving social work through the use of technology and advanced research methods / Ira M. Schwartz ... [et al.]
  • The future of child protection revisited / Jane Waldfogel
  • The implementation of market-based child welfare innovations / William Meezan, Bowen McBeath
  • Self-evaluation : using data to guide policy and practice in public child welfare agencies / Daniel Webster ... [et al.]
  • Comparing welfare and child welfare populations : an argument for rethinking the safety net / Mark E. Courtney ... [et al.]
  • Promoting child well-being through early intervention : findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study / Arthur J. Reynolds, Joshua Mersky
  • Heeding Horton : transcending the public welfare paradigm / David Stoesz
  • Accounts at birth : a proposal to improve life chances through a national system of children's savings accounts / Reid Cramer
  • Beyond child welfare : international perspectives on child and family policies / Sheila. B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn
  • The effect of children on the income status of female-headed households : an intercountry comparison / Martha N. Ozawa, Yongwoo Lee.