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Author : Burt Galaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foster care
ISBN : 0808751530
Author : M. J. Colton,Margaret Williams
Publisher : Russell House Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Child care services
ISBN : 1903855888
"Information is provided on the following: jurisdiction, politics, welfare ideaology, history and origins of foster care, legal framework, service provision, major issues, messages from research, and future trends. These matters are considered from the perspectives of the rights of the child, the role of the family, the impacts of religion and the economy, globalisation and cultural diversity."--Book jacket.
Author : James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134385256
Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.
Author : Lauren Matthew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 1536128988
In the first chapter of Foster Care: Global Issues, Challenges and Perspectives of the 21st Century, the authors explore modern research regarding children of foster parents around the world, including an overview of literature and the use of an online virtual platform to connect the fostering community. Experts from Canada, the United States, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom offered up their knowledge on children of foster parents as well as recommendations for the well-being of said children. Next, a study exploring the implementation of a kinship search program in a child welfare agency is presented in order to determine its benefits. The authors conclude that Kinship Researchers are generally perceived as respectful, helpful, beneficial, and valuable. Additionally, child welfare policy is examined. Later, the essential practice of traditional kinship foster care in Ghana is explored, including current legal provisions, public perception, potential challenges, and future recommendations. The authors also discuss the phenomenon of runaway youth in the foster care system. Due to the fact that children in the foster care system are twice as likely to display runaway indicators than those in the general population, this is a significant issue that warrants understanding. A description of running away in the foster care system is rendered, along with the ramifications that may occur for on-the-run youth. The next chapter deliberates on a study regarding children in out-of-home care in South Korea, comparing the service status of different placement types in terms of developmental outcomes of the children. The results indicate that children in foster care thought of their caregivers and environments more positively than those in institutional care over a period of two years. The following chapter discusses a variety of federal and state laws that address children who were abused and consequently served by the child welfare system. The authors use case studies of foster youth to demonstrate how the law has been used to secure the services, support, and resources needed to place foster youth on a pathway to a more positive future. The final chapter outlines an approach known as, Watch me Play! which encourages supported child-led play in acknowledgement of extensive training needs in the social care workforce. The authors also discuss the potential impact of exploratory and symbolic play to child development, attachment, and communication.
Author : Pösö, Tarja,Skivenes, Marit
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447351054
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care. From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child’s best-interest principle and human rights when children are adopted from care. Taking an international comparative approach to these issues, this book provides detailed information on adoption processes and shares learning from best practice and research across country boundaries to help improve outcomes for all children in care for whom adoption may be the placement of choice.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fundacion Emmanuel
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789872260002
Author : Malcolm Hill,Jane Aldgate
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853023167
The contributors to this book provide a comprehensive review of child care policy and practice. They present evaluations and critiques of new or impending legislation and policies, and describe innovative services for children and young people who are deemed to be in need of protection, care or control as a result of abandonment, neglect, ill-treatment, offending or other difficulties. They also examine changes in adoption law, where such issues as placement policies in relation to children from ethnic minorities, intercountry adoption and the trend towards greater openness have become prominent and controversial in recent years.
Author : Nick Axford,Vashti Berry,Michael Little,Louise Morpeth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470014752
Founded in 1963, Dartington Social Research Unit conducts scientific research into child development within the context of children?s services with a view to informing interventions for children in need. Originating from a festschrift to celebrate the work of Roger Bullock, one of Dartington?s first researchers and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, this book from a prestigious author team examines developments in children?s services over the past forty years, providing a context for future policy making. Ten key areas are covered including foster care and family support, while two overview chapters explore ?40 years of Social Research? and ?Gaps in the Knowledge and Future Challenges?.
Author : Kathleen Kufeldt
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889207394
In 1994 a group of researchers and decision makers met to discuss the state of child welfare. Also present were a few practitioners and two youth in care. Six years later, when they met again, the number of practitioners and youth had grown considerably and were joined by a strong contingent of foster parents. Thus the findings and insights presented were affirmed or challenged by those most affected -- those on the front line. It was an exciting event, worth capturing in book form. Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie have gathered the papers presented at the 2000 Symposium and have organised them under four themes: incidence and characteristics of child maltreatment; the continuum of care; policy and practice; and future directions. An analysis and synthesis of the work informs each of these themes, while an eight-point research agenda developed in an earlier symposium is used to assess developments to date and provide guidance for the future.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Crime
ISBN : MSU:31293012825596
Author : Elizabeth Fernandez,Richard Barth
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857003895
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. Each chapter offers new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. This book is important reading for anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students.
Author : Roger Greeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429839658
First published in 1999, this work draws together a multi-national collection of papers, and aims to stimulate the development of policy and practice in this often neglected area. It aims to offer examples of good social work practice, informed by relevant theoretical insights; to give a voice to kinship foster carers and young people so that practice can be informed by an understanding of their experience; to share the results of current research; to highlight issues for policy makers; and to place the issues in the wider international context of developing social policy, ideology and social change. There are contributions from the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, the US and New Zealand.
Author : Joe Hudson,Burt Galaway
Publisher : Thompson Educational Pub.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UIUC:30112000270436
Child welfare systems are being strained and stretched under the major social and economic changes taking place here and around the globe. Decision makers are struggling to develop policies and programs that better meet the needs of children and families while budgets are shrinking and deficits loom. Research based, policy-relevant information is crucial as they strive to make the decision. Child Welfare in Canada is a thorough summation of the current state of research on the broad area of child welfare in Canada. The text consists of 31 chapters, supplemented with over 50 statistical tables and graphs. The text concludes with a comprehensive agenda for the entire field of Canadian child welfare research. The themes of empowering and strengthening families, communities and social support networks, and providing family and cultural continuity for children are stressed throughout.
Author : Elaine Farmer,Sue Moyers,Jo Lipscombe
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781846420146
Adolescents are the hardest group to foster and have high rates of placement breakdown. Elaine Farmer and her colleagues examine what helps to make their placements work. Key issues for this age group are explored, including peer relationships, sexual health and relationships, the impact of the adolescent on the foster family and balancing their need for safety and autonomy. Based on government-commissioned research and part of the Supporting Parents initiative, this book addresses each stage of the care process, from placement selection to leaving foster care. The authors consider which kinds of professional support at which stages make a difference, the foster carer parenting skills that are crucial and how foster carers can draw on professional support to manage adolescents' behaviour, maintain their educational attainments and negotiate ongoing contact with their birth parents. They draw out recommendations for policy and practice in the areas of: how strain on carers can be reduced the role foster carers' own children play in placement success or breakdown single foster carers how to contain the young people who are hardest to foster key training requirements for foster carers managing contact how foster carers and social workers respond to gender differences in teenagers. A rich source of recommendations for social workers, policy makers and carers, this book will be invaluable to anyone involved in the fields of child welfare and child protection.
Author : M. J. Colton,Margaret Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041062749
An international reference book which describes the role and structure of foster family care systems in 30 countries. Endorsed by the International Foster Care Organization (IFCO), an easily accessible, compact, comprehensive description of foster family care as it operates in different countries