The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research
The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research
This handbook provides an accessible resource for all social work students, educators, practitioners and policy makers to increase their knowledge and understanding of how research into the diversity and impact of child and family social work interventions might underpin and drive policy and practice.
Divided into six sections
The Context of Child and Family Social Work Research
Preventive and Reparative Responses to Children and Families
Child Maltreatment: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
Alternate Care as an Approach to Safeguarding Children and Young People
Intervention: Therapeutic Responses to Vulnerable Children, Youth, and Families
Child and Family Social Work in the Global Context
and comprised of 52 newly written chapters by experts in the field, it provides a foundational overview of the field of child and family social work, including defining concepts, sentinel historical milestones, and the scope of practice. It also identifies developments in auxiliary fields such as neuroscience, psychology, education, health, poverty, and media
By illustrating diverse research endeavours in parenting, maltreatment, prevention, child protection, substitutive interventions including foster care, residential care, adoption, juvenile corrections; elaborates child welfare research methods, measures, and impacts on practice, it analyses evidence-based interventions and policies in early intervention, child protection, child placement, adoption, and advocacy. It will be required reading for anyone working in social work and child protection.
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