The Family at Risk offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the family preservation movement, a relatively new and highly controversial form of service delivery to families at imminent risk of child removal. Mandated by federal legislation and hotly debated by politicians, practitioners, and public citizens, family preservation programs provide flexible, labor-intensive, home-based services that allow families to remain intact while addressing issues that threaten their safety and survival. Marianne Berry examines such programs, which have proliferated throughout the United States, and speculates on the future of this emotionally charged aspect of social work policy and practice. Berry measures the overall effectiveness of several family preservation models currently in use throughout the United States; defines many commonly misused terms, including "imminent risk" and "reasonable efforts;" and illustrates how principles of family preservation programs are often at odds with the philosophy and constraints of larger public child welfare and child protective services systems.
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The often wrenching question of whether children should remain with families even when conditions are considerably less than optimal informs this well-researched book by Berry (social work and director of the Ctr. of Child Welfare, Univ. of Texas at Arlington). Mandated by recent federal legislation, family preservation is of concern to policymakers, practitioners, and public citizens. Berry provides a comprehensive examination of family preservation in four major sections that consider its philosophical, practical, programmatic, and political aspects. Although her goal is to keep the family together, she does not prettify the picture as she details the labor-intensive work involved. This is an important contribution to the growing literature on family preservation and is appropriate to academic, law, agency, and larger public libraries.?Ellen Gilbert, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This book is an excellent resource for understanding intensive family preservation, and in planning IFP services. It is so easy to get sidetracked when working with a very complex family, and this book helps keep me on a straight path in order to better assist the family and to more effectively track their progress.
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New York, Aldine de Gruyter, Charlotte Booth, Newbury Park, Social Service Review, Behavioral Sciences Institute, Columbia University Press, Jill Kinney, Prevention Report, University of Chicago, Family First, National Resource Center, United States, African American, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Children Today, Children's Bureau, David Haapala, Hennepin County, Alameda Project, American Public Welfare Association, Children's Defense Fund, Northern California, State of Oregon Children's Services Division, Charity Organization Societies New!
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Family preservation services are being heralded by many as the latest force to ensure the well-being of children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
family preservation work, intensive family preservation services, family preservation practice, family preservation programs, intensive services project, intensive family services, placement prevention services, family preservation model, softer services, preservation workers, scientific philanthropists, public child welfare system, family based services, child removal, permanency planning, soft services, child care skills, child welfare services, placement outcomes, low caseloads, concrete services, child placement, adoption assistance, enabling services, child welfare policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Aldine de Gruyter, Charlotte Booth, Newbury Park, Social Service Review, Behavioral Sciences Institute, Columbia University Press, Jill Kinney, Prevention Report, University of Chicago, Family First, National Resource Center, United States, African American, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Children Today, Children's Bureau, David Haapala, Hennepin County, Alameda Project, American Public Welfare Association, Children's Defense Fund, Northern California, State of Oregon Children's Services Division, Charity Organization Societies New!
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- Child Welfare by Nick Frost on 5 pages
- Child Abuse (Understanding Social Issues) by Angela Park on page 70, and page 139
- Families in Society by Family Service America on page 65, and page 69
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta on page 68, and page 85
- Child Abuse by Peggy Murray on page 139, and page 194
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- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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