In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
More so than in any other form of forensic evaluation, mental health professionals who conduct parenting plan evaluations must have an understanding of the most current evidence in the areas of child development, optimal parenting plans across various populations, behavioral psychology, family violence, and legal issues to inform their opinions.
In dem Band werden die Herausforderungen und Chancen, die das Zulassen und Gestalten von Intimität in unterschiedlichen pädagogischen Kontexten bieten, diskutiert.
Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.
The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.
The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood.
This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South.
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.
Adolescent neglect is a significant problem within child protection, but focus on child neglect and other forms of maltreatment means that it can often be overlooked.
This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment.
The delivery of effective family support is a key global childwelfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutesfamily support or what the best ways are to evaluate it.
This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions.
Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally.
Die soziale Teilhabe von Menschen nach einem erlittenen Schlaganfall und ihren familiären Unterstützungspersonen hat wissenschaftlich bislang wenig Beachtung gefunden, v.
"e;I'd die without my Blackberry"e; - one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet.
Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs.
This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for our society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers.
There has been significant societal and global change in recent years with accompanying shifts in how older people are perceived by societies across the world.
How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their children away.
Informed by a wealth of research, this accessible book focuses on a strengths-based approach to promoting children's wellbeing and giving them the best opportunities to succeed.
Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century.
Mit Musik gemeinsam gegen das Trauma: Rhythmisches Musizieren in der Gruppe zielt als nonverbale traumapädagogische Intervention auf die Förderung und Steigerung der (Selbst-)Heilungsressourcen gewalterfahrener und traumatisierter Jugendlicher in der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe.
Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets.
Children and young people with autism have the capacity to be independent and resilient which can help them live independently or be supported to live a fulfilling life and reach their full potential.
A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation bringstogether key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts acrossthe globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theoryand practice around children's participation.
This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.
In Helping Families with Troubled Children Carole Sutton stresses the importance of attempting to work with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention, preferably at or before the age of 2 years.
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change.
A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make informed decisions about child protection issues.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initiatives to improve education for poor children.