Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective - Hardcover

Crosson-Tower, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205147437 ISBN 13: 9780205147434

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1997

Synopsis

The new edition of Exploring Child Welfare reflects the author's strong practice perspective and incorporates new developments in welfare reform and child welfare services. The text provides a practical and thorough introduction to child welfare and welfare services. The author's strength is her ability to connect the underlying theories and systems of child welfare with real-life practice experience, stemming from over thirty years' experience in working with children and families. This edition was revised in response to feedback from both students and instructors, and includes a new focus on attachment theory and its utilization in child welfare services. The chapter on child abuse and neglect is presented earlier in the text, since it is often the basis of the need for children's services. Material in all chapters has been revised and updated to reflect recent thought and research in the field.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: Written by a leading author with years of professional and academic experience in services to families and children, this book provides a practical, down-to-earth and reader-friendly discussion of services for children and family. Key Topics: This book covers a wide variety of topics, from poverty and family preservation to child protection, adoption, group and foster care, services to teen parents, and numerous other services used by families and children today. This reference is up-to-date and reflects a wide-variety of views in the field. Market: Social workers, family therapists, human service employees, educators and after-school program facilitators.

About the Author

Dr. Cynthia Crosson-Tower

Harvest Counseling and Consultation

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0205147437
• ISBN 13: 9780205147434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 474