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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

'Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare'. Studies the consequences, good and bad, for children, of being processed through the child welfare system as a consequence of family violence and substance abuse.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas P. Gullotta, Robert L. Hampton, Vincent Senatore
• Con la collaborazione di: Thomas Gullotta (Editore), Thomas P. Gullotta (Editore), Robert L. Hampton (Editore), Vincent Senatore (Editore)
• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.02.1998
• EAN: 9780761914587
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1458-7
• Pagine: 302
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 383 g
• Serie: 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 and
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali