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Informationen zum Autor Duncan Lindsey is a Professor in the UCLA School of Public Affairs. The recipient of the 2003 ProHumanitate award, he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Children and Youth Services Review and is the author of The Welfare of Children, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2003). Aron Shlonsky is an associate professor on the University of Torontos Faculty of Social Work and is the director of the Bell Canada Child Welfare Research Unit. Klappentext During the last decade there have been major advances in research in child welfare, the largest specialty within social work. The focus of this research has been on improving current child welfare practices and programs that protect children from abuse and neglect. The major policy and program changes in the child welfare system have been guided by these research studies, spurred by federal and state emphasis on monitoring child welfare outcomes and identifying best practices. This landmark collection gathers those research developments- and how they have been translated into policies, programs, and practice- in a single volume for the first time. Duncan Lindsey, one of the nation's foremost child welfare scholars, and Aron Shlonsky have assembled a case of the giants in the field who analyze developments in adoption, foster care, risk assessment, CPS work, welfare reform, poverty, decision making, and epidemiological studies. The final section of the book details new approaches to programs designed to combat child maltreatment and child poverty. This volume, with its unparalled breadth, depth, and up-to-date content, will define the state of the field and serve as an invaluable reference for child welfare scholars and practitioners alike. Zusammenfassung In the incisive, up-to-date chapters gathered in this volume, some of the field's top investigators present their work and assess its effect on the full spectrum of child welfare services. Future generations of researchers, as well as students, practitioners, and service providers, will find the resulting text indispensable. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment 2: Informing Child Welfare: The Promise and Limits of Empirical Research 3: Providing More Effective, Ethical Services: The Philosophy and Process of Evidence-Based Practice 4: How Do We Know What Works?: The Quality of Published Reviews of Evidence-Based Practice 5: The Influence of an Adoption Experiment on Social Policy 6: New Permanency Strategies for Children in Foster Care 7: The Transition to Adulthood Among Youth "Aging Out" of Care: What Have We Learned? 8: Moving Restorative Justice Interventions into Domestic Violence Treatment 9: A Descriptive Study of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment: Implications for Child Welfare Policy 10: Decision Making in Child Welfare: Constraints and Potentials 11: Lessons from Research on Decision-Making 12: Assessing Risk Throughout the Life of a Child Welfare Case 13: Improving Social Work Through the Use of Technology and Advanced Research Methods 14: The Future of Child Protection Revisited 15: The Implementation of Market-Based Child Welfare Innovations 16: Self-Evaluation: Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice in Public Child Welfare Agencies 17: Comparing Welfare and Child Welfare Populations: An Argument for Rethinking the Safety Net 18: Promoting Child Well-Being through Early Intervention: Findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study 19: Heeding Horton: Transcending the Public Welfare Paradigm 20: Accounts at Birth: Creating a National System for Savings and Asset Building with Children's Savings Accounts 21: Beyond Child Welfare: International Perspectives on Child and Family Policies 22: The Effect of Children on the Income Status of Female-headed Households: An Intercountry Comparison ...
