Travels in the Trench Between Child Welfare Theory and Practice: A Case Study of Failed Promises and Prospects for Renewal

by George Thomas and Jerome Beker

Travels in the Trench Between Child Welfare Theory and Practice examines how the child welfare field's rush to establish credibility and permanence through program growth during the post World War II era gave rise to a massive but fragile conglomerate unprepared to prove its merits when challenged by an increasingly dubious public. Author George Thomas proposes a broad-based shift from program growth to knowledge-based growth in policy, management,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138993840
• ISBN13: 9781138993846
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages