This is the new, fully updated, first paperback edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book that explores how the AIDs crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, and shows how families, charitie
Learn what children living in group homes need most! Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth presents the results of a 14-month study o
Real Answers to Everyday ChallengesSolutions for Early Childhood Directors provides real-world answers for directors who work in the challenging yet rewarding field of early childhood education. Kathy
Conduct targeted and focused evaluations of child abuse and neglect! Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide is a professional practice manual designed to assist clinicians in conduct
Conduct targeted and focused evaluations of child abuse and neglect! Child Maltreatment Risk Assessments: An Evaluation Guide is a professional practice manual designed to assist clinicians in conduct
In the United States, long considered the land of opportunity, children born into different types of families begin life with very unequal prospects. A growing group of children is being raised in fam
The delivery of effective family support is a key global child welfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutes family support or what the best ways are to evaluate it. Evaluating
Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodriguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his exp
Help a child meet the challenges of the ?real? world! Our children spend a significant amount of time in school, working to develop the skills they need to succeed in the ?real? world. But more and mo
Children are sometimes upset to discover that they have been adopted. This book helps them understand how lucky they are to have to have loving, adoptive parentsand how lucky their parents are
Whilst the Romans had developed the idea of guardianship and the Christian chuch the concept of charity, it was not until the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity around the 4th century that
This timely report considers how childcare services are meeting the needs of parents working atypical hours. Using information from a survey of Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships in En
Using a risk and resilience orientation, "Intervention with Children and Adolescents" distills evidence-based studies into practice guidelines for designing and implementing interventions across a wid
The New York Times Book Review said that Peter Edelman adheres "to a high-minded worldview" -- and he does not hesitate to emphasize that in the Preface to this new paperback edition of Searching for
Nearly one third of British children lived in poverty in 2000 and 2001. Ridge (U. of Bath, UK) conducted interviews with 40 children in order to explore how the children themselves experience their li
Offering an alternative to the mental health/family dysfunction model in the public child welfare field, Samantrai (Smith College School for Social Work) presents a model which integrates behavior the
Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities
