Towards positive systems of child and family welfare : international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems /

Towards positive systems of child and family welfare : international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems /

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Imprint:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 360 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Child welfare -- Cross-cultural studies.
Family services -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child welfare.
Family services.
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11195634
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Other authors / contributors:Cameron, Gary, editor.
Freymond, Nancy, 1962- editor.
ISBN:9781442682726
1442682728
1281991724
9781281991720
0802090281
080209371X
9780802093714
9780802090287
9786611991722
6611991727
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355).
English.
Print version record.
Summary:The need for services that respond to the 'maltreatment' of children and to the struggles of families is at the core of social service systems in all developed nations. While these child and family welfare systems confront similar problems and incorporate common elements, there are substantial differences in philosophy, organization, and operation across international settings and models.In this new collection of essays, Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron have brought together some of the finest international minds to provide an original and integrated discussion of child protection, family service, and community caring models of child and family welfare. The volume not only examines child protection and family service approaches within Western nations - including Canada, the United States, England, the Netherlands, France, and Sweden - it is also the first comparative study to give equal attention to Aboriginal community caring models in Canada and New Zealand.The comparisons made by the essays in this volume allow for a consideration of constructive and feasible innovations in child and family welfare and contribute to an enriched debate around each system. This book will be of great benefit to the field for many years to come.
Other form:Print version: Towards positive systems of child and family welfare. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2006
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems of child and family welfare / Gary Cameron and Nancy Freymond
  • Learning from difference : comparing child welfare systems / Rachael Hetherington
  • Promoting change from 'child protection' to 'child and family welfare' : the problems of the English system / Rachael Hetherington and Tracey Nurse
  • Forming and sustaining partnerships in child and family welfare : the American experience / Patricia Schene
  • Problems and potential of Canadian child welfare / Karen Swift and Marilyn Callahan
  • The plight of paternalism in French child welfare and protective policies and practices / Alain Grevot
  • Child and family welfare in Sweden / Gunvor Andersson
  • When one door shuts, another opens : turning disadvantages into opportunities in child and family welfare in the Netherlands / A.W.M. Veldkamp
  • From child welfare to child, family, and community welfare : the agenda of Canada's Aboriginal peoples / Deena Mandell, Cindy Blackstock, Joyce Clouston Carlson, and Marshall Fine
  • Maori perspectives on collaboration and colonization in contemporary Aotearoa / New Zealand child and family welfare policies and practices / Catherine Love
  • First Nations child and family serivces and Indigenous knowledge as a framework for research, policy, and practice / Marlyn Bennett and Cindy Blackstock
  • Learning from international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems of child and family welfare / Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron.

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