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Critical Issues In Child Welfare
Hardback Edition: 2
Reconfigured for easier classroom use, this text begins with the issues facing at-risk children and families and then describes the intricacies of the child-welfare system and the role of protective services, family preservation, out-of-home care, foster care, adoption, and services for adolescents. New material addresses
mental health and early childhood education in detail; the critical challenge of poverty and substance abuse; the importance of the community in shaping child welfare services; racial disproportionality; LGBT issues; family advocacy; emancipation; independent living; and changes to families' legal and civil rights.
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Featured in the Spring 2015 Social Work newsletter.
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Pages : 368
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Publication date : 2015-07-28
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Social Services & Welfare, Criminology, Child Welfare