A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make decisions about child protection issues. It provides detailed checklists for collecting and
Three contributors in social work and education examine issues confronting African-American youth and propose policy and programming recommendations for working with this population. They look at area
Become a more effective social worker with this outstanding volume on inner-city urban youth! African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community: Social Services Policy and Practice Interventions exa
Use this important intervention to improve your practice with substance-using youths and their families!This vital book gives you a detailed review of a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded, long-t
Empowering Methods for Effective ChildcareAs a professional childcare provider, you want to create an environment that is inviting and nurturing for children as well as encouraging for your adult staf
What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Domi
Written for students preparing for careers in child services, this concise text describes the life of a typical child welfare worker. By providing a first-person account, Crosson-Tower (a counselor) d
Child Care and Inequality provides an in-depth investigation of carework for children and youth of all ages. This outstanding collection of original essays encourages us to rethink carework and to exp
Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affect
Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs today and in the future.In response to an
Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and "excluded body" of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of "adoption," which too often is co
In late Victorian America few issues held the public's attention more closely than the allegedly unnatural family life of the urban poor. In Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children, Sherri Brode
Based on several studies of family-based practice, this book critiques the existing child welfare programs, analyzes the role of advocates and the discourses surrounding them, and argues for a new sys
Without signing the documents that would permit adoption, young Theresa Cameron's mother placed her little daughter under the aegis of Catholic Charities, and then the mother vanished forever. During
Bargach, who did her fieldwork in her native Morocco (for a doctorate in cultural anthropology at Rice U. in Houston; she now teaches social sciences at the National School of Architecture in Morocco)
