Child and Family Social Work

From Distress to Hope: Therapeutic Intervention with Poor Unorganized Families provides social workers, physicians, psychologists, counselors, and family therapists with tested interventions to help disadvantaged families deal with the problems they encounter. You will learn new techniques for inter..

Parental child sexual assault is the most hidden and complex forms of child abuse and one of the most difficult to guard against. This is the first book to provide an evidence-based approach to working with parental child sexual assault which includes intervention with the offender, child victim, mo..

Parental child sexual assault is the most hidden and complex forms of child abuse and one of the most difficult to guard against. This is the first book to provide an evidence-based approach to working with parental child sexual assault which includes intervention with the offender, child victim, mo..

Kinship care is part tradition and part social welfare policy. Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care examines the balance of the two perspectives and presents current practice challenges of formal and informal kinship care. This important resource focuses on both the needs of the caregiv..

Adult attachment style is a key framework for understanding problems in human relationships. This practical book introduces and explains an easily accessible assessment tool for adult attachment style, the Attachment Style Interview (ASI). It then discusses appropriate interventions that can be made..

Addressing contemporary questions about the definitions and prevention of child sexual exploitation (CSE), this book looks at how, where and why disclosure and recognition of this form of abuse takes place. It brings together a range of perspectives and theoretical frameworks to help us understand C..

Addressing contemporary questions about the definitions and prevention of child sexual exploitation (CSE), this book looks at how, where and why disclosure and recognition of this form of abuse takes place. It brings together a range of perspectives and theoretical frameworks to help us understand C..

Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential guide to the process, pros, and cons of adopting children from outside the United States, with special needs, and/or from a different racial/cultural background. The book documents every aspect of the adoption procedur..

Opens up the boundaries between professional and personal expertise on parenting to discuss definitions of parenthood and responsibilities. Essential reading for professionals working in this area and parents themselves...

Exploring the issues surrounding child protection interventions, this book offers a process-oriented approach to ethical practice and decision-making in child protection and family welfare practice. It is designed to prepare students and early-career professionals for roles in the complex and challe..

Exploring the issues surrounding child protection interventions, this book offers a process-oriented approach to ethical practice and decision-making in child protection and family welfare practice. It is designed to prepare students and early-career professionals for roles in the complex and challe..

How can teachers and social workers reach the endangered kids who seldom come to school? By going to the streets, where the children live, work, fight, steal, get sick, sell their bodies, and all too often die. This impressive book offers a detailed history of the development of street social educa..