Child Welfare

Name: Child Welfare
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138218826
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Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field

By Kathryn Krase and Tobi Delong-Hamilton

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Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field offers a comprehensive guide tailored for social work students entering child welfare. The book combines history, theory, and practice, integrating multiple perspectives to support engagement with children and families across micro, mezzo, and macro levels. It addresses broad issues like child maltreatment and welfare responses, alongside current topics such as mandated reporting and evidence-based policy, making it essential for undergraduate and graduate social work courses.
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Designed for undergraduate and graduate social work students, as well as professionals preparing to enter the child welfare field.

Child Welfare is comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. It provides a single source for all material necessary to providing a contextual child welfare course. The material is designed to meet the needs of social work students entering the child welfare workforce.

Description

Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field is a comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. This textbook provides a single source for all material necessary for a contextual child welfare course.

As well as combining history, theory, and practice, the authors integrate different practice perspectives to teach social workers how to engage children and families at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Covering both broad issues, such as child welfare, child maltreatment, and responses to child maltreatment, and current issues in social care, including mandated reporting and evidence-based policy prevention and preservation, the material is designed to meet the needs of social work students entering the child welfare workforce.

Child Welfare provides students in social work courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with a single source for all material necessary to successfully navigate their studies and careers.

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Praised for its comprehensive and practical approach, this book effectively blends theory, practice, and policy in child welfare. Reviewers highlight its use of case examples, discussions on vital practices like mandated reporting, and support for understanding challenges faced by social workers, especially youth transitioning out of foster care. The authors' work is seen as an enlightening and provocative resource that brings critical social work tasks to life, making it compelling and valuable for students.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138218826

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 November 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 200

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About the Author

Kathryn Krase, Associate Professor of Social Work in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, is an expert in the Mandated Reporting of Suspected Child Maltreatment, with many significant publications and presentations on the topic. As a lawyer, Dr. Krase represented children in Family Court for the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Tobi DeLong Hamilton, Assistant Professor and MSW Program Director in the Department of Social Work at Brandman University, has worked in the social work field for 20 years and has experience in child welfare, adoptions, medical, and psychiatric social work. She worked in private practice as a psychotherapist specializing in family and childhood problems prior to moving into higher education full time. While in private practice, she maintained a connection to public child welfare by evaluating, writing reports, and testifying as an expert witness for children in foster care.