Moving toward positive systems of child and family welfare : current issues and future directions

Adams, Gerald R., 1946- (Added Author). Cameron, Gary. (Added Author). Coady, Nick, 1951- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780889205185
ISBN: 0889205183
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 384 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : finding a fit : family realities and service responses / Gary Cameron, Nick Coady and Gerald R. Adams -- 1. Positive possibilities for child and family welfare : expanding the Anglo-American child protection paradigm / Gary Cameron, Nancy Freymond, Denise Cornfield and Sally Palmer -- 2. Mothers and child welfare child placements / Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron -- 3. Aboriginal child welfare / Deena Mandell, Joyce Clouston Carlson, Marshall Fine and Cindy Blackstock -- 4. Using intermediary structures to support families : an international comparison of practice in child protection / Nancy Freymond -- 5. Service participant voices in child welfare, children's mental health, and psychotherapy / Marshall Fine, Sally Palmer and Nick Coady -- 6. Placement decisions and the child welfare worker : constructing identities for survival / Nancy Freymond -- 7. Understanding and preventing burnout and employee turnover / Cheryl Harvey and Carol A. Stalker -- 8. Pathways to residential children's mental health services : parents' perceptions of service availability and treatment outcomes / Karen M. Frensch, Gary Cameron, Gerald R. Adams and Catherine de Boer -- 9. Fundamental considerations for child and family welfare / Nick Coady, Gary Cameron and Gerald R. Adams.