Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare - Bridging Perspectives

To foster more discussion between practitioners and scholars, this book explores unified approaches for prevention of, and treatment for, children in abusive situations and their parents.The contributors probe: the history of abusive behavior and intoxication; the research literature on drug-exposed children in the welfare system and the interventions that facilitate their optimum development; the legislative and policy contexts in which potential collaborations between the fields of substance abuse and child welfare are being deployed or abandoned; the damaging effects that parental and family substance abuse add to a host of child welfare problems; the need for clinicians to develop a sound therapeutic foundation to enhance their effe

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Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT.

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To foster more discussion between practitioners and scholars, this book explores unified approaches for prevention of, and treatment for, children in abusive situations and their parents. The contributors probe: the history of abusive behavior and intoxication; the research literature on drug-exposed children in the welfare system and the interventions that facilitate their optimum development; the legislative and policy contexts in which potential collaborations between the fields of substance abuse and child welfare are being deployed or abandoned; the damaging effects that parental and family substance abuse add to a host of child welfare problems; the need for clinicians to develop a sound therapeutic foundation to enhance their effe

Product details

• Authors: Thomas P. Gullotta, Robert L. Hampton, Vincent Senatore
• Assisted by: Thomas Gullotta (Editor), Thomas P. Gullotta (Editor), Robert L. Hampton (Editor), Vincent Senatore (Editor)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.1998
• EAN: 9780761914570
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1457-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 514 g
• Series: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives; Issues in Children's & Familie; Issues in Children's & Families' Lives S.; Issues in Children's and Families' Lives; Issues in Children's and Famil; Issues in Children's & Familie; Issues in Children′s and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research