The child welfare challenge : policy, practice, and research /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Transaction Publishers,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. rev. and expanded. |
| Series: | Modern applications of social work.
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Table of Contents:
- Purpose and goals of child welfare
- Key child welfare legislation and other policies
- A conceptual framework for child and family-centered services
- Economic security for families with children
- Child maltreatment types, rates, and reporting procedures
- Child protective services
- Family-based services
- Family foster care
- Family reunification and kinship care
- Transition and independent living services
- Adoption and adoption services
- Residential group care and intensive treatment alternatives
- Organizational requisites and challenges to effective child welfare services.