Here is the first systematic attempt to explore a rapidly growing child welfare service--specialist foster family care--as a viable and vital form of community care for children and youth experiencing a range of problems and needs. The authors explore and clarify the therapeutic potential of the foster family, the resources necessary to implement and maintain successful programs, the diversity of program models and strategies, the establishment of specialized foster care services in public child welfare agencies, and the application to a range of clients, including autistic, handicapped, and sexually abused children. Organized into three sections, this major new volume identifies program perspectives and principles, addresses program issues, and describes practical approaches for delivering services. Contributors highlight a number of issues that will require further attention as specialist foster family care develops.An indispensable guide for a broad range of professionals, including practitioners and managers employed in child welfare agencies and social work educators interested in child welfare policy and practice, Specialist Foster Family Care will also be valuable for undergraduate and graduate social work students and other persons interested in noninstitutional methods of dealing with troubled children and youth.
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Foster care programming in North America dates back to the mid-nineteenth century and the work of Charles Loring Brace, but only in the past two decades have we seen significant developments in treatment, therapeutic or specialized foster care programming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Northern Ireland, The Haworth Press, United States, Emily Jean, Human Service Associates, Nancy Hazel, New Brunswick, Kansas City, United Kingdom, West Virginia, Burt Galaway, Joe Hudson, People Places, Data Source, Pamela Meadowcroft, Brad Bryant, Normalizing Experience, Peter Forsythe, Peter Smith, Michael Peterson, Susan Whitelaw Downs, Church Street, Edmonton Division, Faculty of Social Welfare, Jane Rowe New!
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Foster care programming in North America dates back to the mid-nineteenth century and the work of Charles Loring Brace, but only in the past two decades have we seen significant developments in treatment, therapeutic or specialized foster care programming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foster family treatment, specialist foster parents, foster family care programs, specialist foster care programs, specialist foster family care, special foster care, personal progress plan, treatment foster parents, youth advocate program, treatment foster care programs, therapeutic parents, treatment foster homes, regular foster care, traditional foster care, agency foster parents, experienced foster parents, professional fostering, specialist fostering, specialized foster care, fostering schemes, former foster children, therapeutic homes, fostering programs, specialist schemes, family treatment program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, The Haworth Press, United States, Emily Jean, Human Service Associates, Nancy Hazel, New Brunswick, Kansas City, United Kingdom, West Virginia, Burt Galaway, Joe Hudson, People Places, Data Source, Pamela Meadowcroft, Brad Bryant, Normalizing Experience, Peter Forsythe, Peter Smith, Michael Peterson, Susan Whitelaw Downs, Church Street, Edmonton Division, Faculty of Social Welfare, Jane Rowe New!
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- Cottage Six: Social System of Delinquent Boys in Residential Treatment by Howard W. Polsky on page 48, and Back Matter
- Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 48, and Back Matter
- Child Welfare by Nick Frost in Back Matter
- Specialist Fostering (Child Care Policy and Practice) by Martin Shaw in Back Matter
- Social Work Processes (with InfoTrac) by Beulah R. Compton in Front Matter
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- Travels in the Trench Between Child Welfare Theory and Practice: A Case Study of Failed Promises and Prospects for Renewal (Child & Youth Services) by Jerome Beker in Front Matter
- The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work (Child & Youth Services Series) by Jerome Beker in Front Matter
- The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Worker: Caring and Its Discontents (Monograph Published Simultaneously As Child & Youth Services , Vol 18, No 2) by Jerome Beker in Front Matter
- Working With Children on the Streets of Brazil: Politics and Practice by Walter De Oliveira in Front Matter
- Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters (Child and Youth Services, Vol 14, No 1) by Jerome Beker in Front Matter
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