Child welfare : connecting research, policy, and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kufeldt, Kathleen, McKenzie, Brad
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2011]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Evariste Thériault
  • Preface / Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
  • Setting the context : child welfare law in Canada / Nicholas Bala
  • Canadian incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect : changing patters of reported maltreatment, 1998 and 2003 / Nico Trocmé, Barbara Fallon, and Bruce MacLaurin
  • The response of the Ontario child welfare system to neglect : 1993 to 2003 / Kate Schumaker, Barbara Fallon, and Nico Trocmé
  • Factors associated with the decision to provide ongoing services : are worker characteristics and organizational location important? / Barbara Fallon and Nico Trocmé
  • Canadian child welfare worker qualifications : examining a changing national profile / Barbara Fallon ... [et al.]
  • Canadian incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect : themes and implications / Brad McKenzie and Kathleen Kufeldt
  • Differential response in child welfare : a new early intervention model? / Brad McKenzie
  • Doing the work : child protection jobs in centralized and accessible service delivery models / Gary Cameron, Nancy Freymond, and Lirondel Cheyne-Hazineh
  • Child welfare interventions that make sense to mothers / Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron
  • Projet famille : a family therapy project for neglectful families / Michèle Brousseau ... [et al.]
  • Foster care : an essential part of the continuum of care / Kathleen Kufeldt
  • Finding the best home : a comparative analysis of kinship and foster care placements / Katharine Dill
  • A bicultural response to children in need of care and protection in New Zealand / Jill Worrall
  • Experiences of foster carers' children : an overview of the research / Tracy Swan and Robert Twigg
  • Making group home care a positive alternative, not the last resort / James Anglin
  • The changing face of adoption / Kathleen Kufeldt
  • Factors associated with family reunification among adolescents in residential care : a Quebec perspective / Marie-Claude Simard and Marie-Andrée Poirier
  • Aging out of care and the transition to adulthood : implications for intervention / Varda Mann-Feder
  • Knock, knock, who's there--for youth? The experience of support when aging out of foster care / Deborah Rutman and Carol Hubberstey
  • Providing a seamless continuum of care : themes and implications / Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
  • Disproportionate representation of indigenous children in child welfare systems : international comparisons / Clare Tilbury and June Thoburn
  • Understanding the overrepresentation of First Nations children in Canada's child welfare system / Vandna Sinha ... [et al.]
  • From child protection to community caring in First Nations child and family services / Brad McKenzie and Corbin Shangreaux
  • Wrap a star blanket around each one : learning from the educational experiences of indigenous former children in care on Coast Salish Territory / Shelly Johnson (Mukwa Musayett)
  • Indigenous issues in child welfare : themes and implications / Brad McKenzie and Kathleen Kufeldt
  • Risk assessment in child welfare : use and misuse / Jan Christianson-Wood
  • Engaging with fathers in child welfare / Christopher Walmsley ... [et al.]
  • Critical issues of practice and protection in relation to families and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder / Dorothy Badry
  • Children with disabilities in care in Manitoba / Don Fuchs
  • Child welfare challenges for developing nations / Myrna McNitt
  • Selected practice issues : themes and implications / Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
  • Family-centred child welfare practice / Alexandra Wright and Diane Hiebert-Murphy
  • Using Looking after children data to link research to policy and practice in out-of-home care / Sarah Wise and Ruth Champion
  • The Looking after childre approach in Quebec : an evaluation of experiences of youth, caseworkers, and foster parents / Marie-Andrée ... [et al.]
  • Guided practice in Australia : research, implementation, and child and family perspectives on Looking after children and the assessment framework / Deirdre Cheers ... [et al.]
  • Resiliency : embracing a strength-based model of evaluation and care provision / Tyrone Donnon and Wayne Hammond
  • The National Child Welfare Outcomes Indicator Matrix (NOM) and its application in a child welfare agency / Nico Trocmé ... [et al.]
  • Implementing the integrated children's system in the United Kingdom : a summary of main findings / Jane Scott
  • The search for best practice : themes and implications / Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
  • Critical issues in current practice / Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
  • The policy, practice, research connection : are we there yet? / Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie.