| Other author/creator | Fernandez, Elizabeth, 1942- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBt73FPQ4C6xHmq7ff3pK |
| Other author/creator | Welbourne, Penelope, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjK9qgtJCXrMYC9vpcPxXd |
| Other author/creator | Lee, Bethany (Bethany R.), editor. |
| Other author/creator | Ma, Joyce Lai-chong, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqTYGGKDv4MjPy3cbv6Td |
| Portion of title |
Handbook of child and family social work research |
| Portion of title |
Child and family social work research |
| Physical medium | illustrations. |
| Series | Routledge international handbooks
Routledge international handbooks. |
| Contents |
Section One: The Context of Child and Family Social Work Research -- Section Two: Preventive and Reparative Responses to Children and Families -- Section Three: Child Maltreatment: Causes, Consequences, and Responses -- Section Four: Alternate Care as an Approach to Safeguarding Children and Young People -- Section Five: Intervention: Therapeutic Responses to Vulnerable Children, Youth, and Families -- Section Six: Child and Family Social Work in the Global Context. |
| Abstract |
"This handbook provides an accessible resource for all social work students, educators, practitioners and policy makers to increase their knowledge and understanding of how research into the diversity and impact of child and family social work interventions might underpin and drive policy and practice. Divided into six sections -The Context of Child and Family Social Work Research -Preventive and Reparative Responses to Children and Families -Child Maltreatment: Causes, Consequences, and Responses -Alternate Care as an Approach to Safeguarding Children and Young People -Intervention: Therapeutic Responses to Vulnerable Children, Youth, and Families -Child and Family Social Work in the Global Context and comprised of 52 newly written chapters by experts in the field, it provides a foundational overview of the field of child and family social work, including defining concepts, sentinel historical milestones, and the scope of practice. It also identifies developments in auxiliary fields such as neuroscience, psychology, education, health, poverty, and media By illustrating diverse research endeavours in parenting, maltreatment, prevention, child protection, substitutive interventions including foster care, residential care, adoption, juvenile corrections; elaborates child welfare research methods, measures, and impacts on practice, it analyses evidence-based interventions and policies in early intervention, child protection, child placement, adoption, and advocacy. It will be required reading for anyone working in social work and child protection"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Routledge handbook of child and family social work research New York : Routledge, 2024 9781003241492 |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion The Routledge handbook of child and family social work research London; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025 9781040098110 9781003241492 |
| LCCN | 2024006751 |
| ISBN | 9781032148649 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 1032148640 |
| ISBN | 9781032148700 (pbk) |
| ISBN | 1032148705 |
| ISBN | (ebk) |
