1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research Knowledge-Building, Application, and Impact
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.
Introduction
Elizabeth Fernandez, Penelope Welbourne, Bethany Lee and Joyce L. C. Ma
Section One – The Context of Child and Family Social Work Research
Chapter One – Theoretical and value base of research in child and family social work: Three epistemological approaches
Karen Healy
Chapter Two – Children’s rights and critical children’s rights studies in the context of child and family policy, practice and research
Wouter Vandenhole and Didier Reynaert
Chapter Three – Child wellbeing: Children’s perceptions and experiences
Ferran Casas, Shazly Savahl, Mònica González-Carrasco and Sabirah Adams
Chapter Four – The Changing and Challenging Nature of Child and Family Social Work and its Research
Nigel Parton
Chapter Five – Emerging Models, Research Designs, and Outcome Analyses in Child and Family Social Work
Fred Wulczyn and John Halloran
Chapter Six – “Evidence-Based Practice” in Child and Family Social Work – Progress and Controversies
Sigrid James and Lisa Holmes
Chapter Seven – Research Evidence and Research Evidence Use: Conceptualization and Application to Child Protection
Fred Wulczyn, Lily Alpert, Scott Huhr and Molly Van Drunen
Section Two - Preventive and Reparative Responses to Children and Families
Chapter Eight – A critical analysis of Early Intervention in the Irish Child Protection and Welfare system
Carmel Devaney, John Canavan and Caroline Mc Grego
Chapter Nine – Multidimensional child poverty in Chile: dimensions that matter for child development
Amanda Telias and Alejandra Abufhele
Chapter Ten – Helping Parents with Substance Abuse Concerns: A Case Study on a Holistic Intervention and Support Programme for Parents Involved in Substance Misuse in Hong Kong
Siu-ming To, Yuk-yan So, Kit-ying Wan Katy and Xiaoyu Liu
Chapter Eleven – Responding to families and children where there is domestic violence and coercive control
Margaret Kertesz, Cathy Humphreys and Susan Heward-Belle
Chapter Twelve – Implementing a quasi-experimental research design to explore the effectiveness of family work in youth justice
Phillipa Evans and Chris Trotter
Chapter Thirteen – Enhancing Outcomes for Vulnerable Parents, Children, and Communities Using the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program System: Innovations and Future Directions
Matthew R. Sanders, Tianyi Ma, Nam-Phuong T. Hoang and Karen M. T. Turner
Chapter Fourteen – Working with Fathers: A Scoping Review
Lauren Anderson and Elizabeth Fernandez
Section Three – Child Maltreatment: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
Chapter Fifteen – Poverty, Inequality and Child Maltreatment: What Does Research Tell Us?
Guy Skinner and Paul Bywaters
Chapter Sixteen – Developing a global typology of child protection systems
Jill Duerr Berrick, Marit Skivenes and Neil Gilbert
Chapter Seventeen – Protecting children under the law: Impact on children, young people and families
Rosemary Sheehan
Chapter Eighteen – Cultural Encounters in Intervention: Complicating Social Work
Thomas Meysen, Carol Hagemann-White and Liz Kelly
Chapter Nineteen – Child welfare: Re-examining the risk threshold to investigate
Jill K. Stoddart, Kate Schumaker and Leyco Wilson
Chapter Twenty – Using Strengths-based Research and Data in Child Welfare Assessment to Address the Overrepresentation of Black Families in U.S. Child Welfare Programs
Chrishana M. Lloyd and Sara Shaw
Chapter Twenty-one – What has COVID-19 taught us about safeguarding children from maltreatment? Lessons learned from an international study
Carmit Katz, Ilan Katz, Afnan Attrash-Najjar, Ma’ayan Jacobson, Olivia D. Chang, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Ansie Fouché, David Kaawa-Mafigiri, Jill E. Korbin, Diane Thembekile Levine, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Nadia Massarweh Akhtar Munir, Pablo Muñoz, Irja Nieminen, Eija Paavilainen, Sidnei Priolo-Filho, Miia Ståhlberg, Ashwini Tiwari, Elmien Truter, Natalia Varela, Hayley Walker-Williams and Christine Wekerle
Chapter Twenty-two – Child sexual abuse (CSA): Dynamics, effects and responses
Sabine Andresen
Section Four - Alternate Care as an Approach to Safeguarding Children and Young People
Chapter Twenty-three – Children in family foster care: Challenges and pitfalls through an analysis of placement disruptions
Carme Montserrat, Rosa Sitjes-Figueras and Nuria Fuentes-Peláez
Chapter Twenty-four – Uncovering the relational complexity of kinship care – the power of qualitative research
Robbie Gilligan
Chapter Twenty-five – Therapeutic residential care: Practice components and barriers
Kenny Kor
Chapter Twenty-six – Understanding educational outcomes for children in care: Well-being, engagement and attainment in school
Nikki Luke, Neil Harrison, Mim Cartwright, Eleanor Staples and Andrew Brown
Chapter Twenty-seven – Developmental Assets and Tutoring: Keys to Improving Educational Outcomes in the Ontario Looking After Children Project
Robert J. Flynn, Elena Gallitto and Meagan Miller
Chapter Twenty-eight – Nurturing family and social relationships while in care: Researching family contact and visitation
Isabel M. Bernedo and Lucia González-Pasarín
Chapter Twenty-nine – First Families in context: the challenges of parent-carer partnership in out-of-home care
Leon Ankersmit, Elizabeth Fernandez and Jung-Sook Lee
Chapter Thirty – Reunification in out-of-home care: Patterns and Predictors
Paul Delfabbro and Elizabeth Fernandez
Chapter Thirty-one – The Family Reunification Process in Child Welfare: The Challenge of Providing the Right Services at the Right Time
Doris Chateauneuf, Sylvie Drapeau, Julie Noël and Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques
Chapter Thirty-two – Researching Transitions from Care: Lessons from a Longitudinal Study of Experiences and Outcomes of Young People
Mark E. Courtney
Chapter Thirty-three – Resilience of adult care leavers in Australia
Elizabeth Fernandez, Jung-Sook Lee and Patricia McNamara
Chapter Thirty-four – Coming Out in the Care System: Participatory Research with Care Experienced LGBTQ+ young people in England
Jeanette Cossar, Pippa Belderson, Birgit Larsson, Julia Keenan and Emma Ward
Chapter Thirty-five – Adoption from care: Evolving directions in policy and practice from a comparative perspective
Tarja Pösö, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn
Chapter Thirty-six – Facilitating permanence and promoting the wellbeing of abused and neglected children through open adoption from care
Harriet Ward, Lynne Moggach, Susan Tregeagle and Helen Trivedi
Chapter Thirty-seven – Forty years of research Adoption and Birth Fathers
Paul-Auguste Cornefert and Gary Clapton
Section Five - Intervention: Therapeutic Responses to Vulnerable Children, Youth, and Families
Chapter Thirty-eight – The effectiveness of mental health and relational interventions for children in foster and kinship care
Michael Tarren-Sweeney
Chapter Thirty-nine – Young Carers in the UK
Carly Ellicott and Amy Woodworth
Chapter Forty – Investigating the Effectiveness of Resilience Interventions in Australian Youth and Its Variability Across Refugee and Non-Refugee Samples
Lyn Worsley
Chapter Forty-one – The Development of an Indigenous Connectedness Framework for Child Wellbeing
Jessica Saniguq Ullrich and Yvonne Chase
Chapter Forty-two – Parent and family peer advocacy in child welfare: Transforming research, policy, and practice
Jessica Cocks, Lou Johnston, Jeanette Vega and Ros Thorpe
Chapter Forty-three – Integrated, Victim-Centred Family Therapy Following Parental Sexual Assault
Lesley Laing, Dale Tolliday and Joanne Spangaro
Section Six – Child and Family Social Work in the Global Context
Chapter Forty-four – Working with children from refugee and forcibly displaced backgrounds: Throw the “rule book” out!
Eileen Pittaway, Linda Bartolomei, Emma Pittaway and Jung-Sook Lee
Chapter Forty-five – Child trafficking and exploitation: Social work practice and children’s rights
Alinka Gearon
Chapter Forty-six – Breaking Barriers or Building Walls? Strategies to overcome the barriers to help-seeking among Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) survivors from refugee backgrounds
Amani Kasherwa, Caroline Lenette and Elizabeth Fernandez
Chapter Forty-seven – Responding to the long term and changing needs of Unaccompanied and Separated Syrian children in Jordan: Learnings and implications for their transition to adulthood
Rawan W. Ibrahim, Sahar AlMakhamreh and Aisha Jane Hutchinson
Chapter Forty-eight – The Development of Child Protection Systems in Southeast Asia
Nigel Spence, Win May Htway, Thi Thai Lan Nguyen and Ty Sovannary
Chapter Forty-nine – Child Labour in rural and urban Ghana: Stakeholders and Parental Perceptions of Working Children and Culture-appropriate Assessment
Obed Adonteng-Kissi
Chapter Fifty – Child Neglect and Inadequate Supervision in Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Anthony Shuko Musiwa and Mónica Ruiz-Casares
Chapter Fifty-one – Understanding social media in adoptee digital diasporas: Korean Australian intercountry adoption experiences
HeeRa Ko and Ryan Gustafsson
Chapter Fifty-two – Building resilience following major trauma: Learnings from children of the Shoah
Marco Ius
Biography
Elizabeth Fernandez, AM PhD MA, is Professor of Social Work, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Penelope Welbourne is Associate Professor of Social Work at Plymouth University.
Bethany Lee, PhD MSW, is the Richard P. Barth Professor of Children’s Services at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
Joyce L. C. Ma is Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research is an extraordinary venture led by superb scholars with impeccable timing. These more than 50 chapters exude child welfare research’s growing breadth and depth. These globe-spanning authors probe underlying value propositions of child welfare research, conceptual contributions, program evaluation, surveys, case studies, and causal models. Often drawing on cross-national data and descriptions the handbook confidently points the way to future opportunities.
Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW
Professor and Past-President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
This comprehensive collection drawing on research from more than 10 countries provides a rich, research-informed, reference for researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Aspects covered include child maltreatment, prevention, child and family interventions and global issues. A huge contribution to the field.
Emeritus Professor Judy Sebba, Rees Centre, University of Oxford
This handbook is an excellent resource for researchers, practitioners, and students of child welfare. It tackles key barriers to child well-being and presents approaches to child welfare research, and evidence informed interventions from different country and cultural perspectives. The handbook fills a gap in the literature.
Professor Emeritus Margarita Frederico AM; DSci, La Trobe University, Australia
