Full Description
During the last decade there have been major advances in research in child welfare, the largest specialty within social work. The focus of this research has been on improving current child welfare practices and programs that protect children from abuse and neglect. The major policy and program changes in the child welfare system have been guided by these research studies, spurred by federal and state emphasis on monitoring child welfare outcomes and identifying best practices. This landmark collection gathers those research developments- and how they have been translated into policies, programs, and practice- in a single volume for the first time. Duncan Lindsey, one of the nation's foremost child welfare scholars, and Aron Shlonsky have assembled a case of the giants in the field who analyze developments in adoption, foster care, risk assessment, CPS work, welfare reform, poverty, decision making, and epidemiological studies. The final section of the book details new approaches to programs designed to combat child maltreatment and child poverty. This volume, with its unparalled breadth, depth, and up-to-date content, will define the state of the field and serve as an invaluable reference for child welfare scholars and practitioners alike.
Contents
1. Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment ; 2. Informing Child Welfare: The Promise and Limits of Empirical Research ; 3. Providing More Effective, Ethical Services: The Philosophy and Process of Evidence-Based Practice ; 4. How Do We Know What Works?: The Quality of Published Reviews of Evidence-Based Practice ; 5. The Influence of an Adoption Experiment on Social Policy ; 6. New Permanency Strategies for Children in Foster Care ; 7. The Transition to Adulthood Among Youth "Aging Out" of Care: What Have We Learned? ; 8. Moving Restorative Justice Interventions into Domestic Violence Treatment ; 9. A Descriptive Study of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment: Implications for Child Welfare Policy ; 10. Decision Making in Child Welfare: Constraints and Potentials ; 11. Lessons from Research on Decision-Making ; 12. Assessing Risk Throughout the Life of a Child Welfare Case ; 13. Improving Social Work Through the Use of Technology and Advanced Research Methods ; 14. The Future of Child Protection Revisited ; 15. The Implementation of Market-Based Child Welfare Innovations ; 16. Self-Evaluation: Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice in Public Child Welfare Agencies ; 17. Comparing Welfare and Child Welfare Populations: An Argument for Rethinking the Safety Net ; 18. Promoting Child Well-Being through Early Intervention: Findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study ; 19. Heeding Horton: Transcending the Public Welfare Paradigm ; 20. Accounts at Birth: Creating a National System for Savings and Asset Building with Children's Savings Accounts ; 21. Beyond Child Welfare: International Perspectives on Child and Family Policies ; 22. The Effect of Children on the Income Status of Female-headed Households: An Intercountry Comparison
