1st Edition
Community Approaches to Child Welfare International Perspectives
Edited By Lena Dominelli
Copyright 1999
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
223 Pages
by
Routledge
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Published in 1999, Community Approaches to Child Welfare is written by both practitioners and academics to explore ways in which community-based, preventative approaches to child welfare can be used to support families experiencing behavioural problems with children or undergoing difficulties in raising them. Specific practice examples developed in Britain, Canada and Sweden provide an... Read more
1. Introducing International Perspectives in Child Welfare, Lena Dominelli 2. Critical Issues in Child Welfare: Perspectives from the Field, Joan Gilroy 3. Creating Second-Class Citizens in Child Welfare, Marilyn Callahan 4. A Community Approach to Urban Child Welfare in Canada, Bill Lee 5. The Children Act, 1989: A New Partnership with Parents?, Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha 6. Family Group Conferences: A Challenge to the Old Order?, Shirley Jackson and Paul Nixon 7. Family Group Conferences: A Co-Ordinator’s Perspective, Marilyn Taylor 8. Crossing Reality - Building Networks around Families in Crisis, Nicoline Isacson and Greger Helin 9. Empowering Children: The End-Point for Community Approaches to Child Welfare, Lena Dominelli.
Biography
Lena Dominelli is President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and Director of the Centre for International Social and Community Development. The University of Southampton, UK
’The book has opened up an area for debate that has long been a thorn in the side of practitioners; it has started the process of separating media myth from reality and for that reason alone should be read with enthusiasm.’ British Journal of Social Work
