From Child Abuse to Foster Care - Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements

List of contents

I: Examining Child Abuse and Child Welfare Caseloads and Careers; 1: Understanding Pathways to Permanency; 2: Growth in Child Abuse Reports and Child Welfare Services Caseloads; 3: From Child Abuse Report to Child Welfare Services; II: Analyzing Foster Care Pathways; 4: Rethinking and Researching Length of Stay in Foster Care; 5: Reunification from Kinship and Nonkinship Foster Care; 6: Factors Associated with Entrance to Group Care; 7: Time to Adoption; III: Child and Placement Characteristics; 8: Specialized Foster Care: A Home for Children With Special Needs; 9: Kinship Care: Rights and Responsibilities, Services and Standards; 10: Group Care for Children; 11: Similarities and Differences in the Characteristics of Children in Out-of-Home Care; IV: Implications; 12: Trends and Recommendations for the Next Decade

About the author

Richard P. Barth, Mark E. Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick, Vicky N. Albert

Summary

Originally published: New York: Aldine de Gruyter, c1994, in series: Modern applications of social work.

Product details

• Authors: Vicky Albert, Vicky N. Albert, Barth, Richard P. Barth, Richard P. Courtney Barth, Jill Duerr Berrick, Berrick Jill Duerr, Mark Courtney, Mark E. Courtney, Courtney Mark E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138523920
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52392-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General