The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research

By Peter J. Pecora, Anthony N. Maluccio, Richard P. Barth, et al.

Book Overview

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service-foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services-where social work has an important role.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815351666
• ISBN13: 9780815351665
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great information! Used it for several papers and thesis!

Great book with good information about the child welfare system. Speifically, I was looking for information about older youth adoptions.

Review

This is a quite comprehensive book. The authors cover a wide variety of insightful information and research in the child welfare field. Very good for anybody who will be working in a public child welfare setting or conducting research in this area. As with most academic reading, it tends to be a little dry. And, because there is so much information, sometimes it doesn't flow very well.