The family at risk : issues and trends in family preservation services /

"The Family at Risk offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the family preservation movement, a relatively new and highly controversial effort to deliver services to families at imminent risk of child removal. Mandated by federal law and hotly debated by politicians, practitioners, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berry, Marianne, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©1997.
Colección:Social problems and social issues (Columbia, S.C.)
Temas:
Family social work > United States.
Home-based family services > United States.
Dysfunctional families > United States.
Child welfare > United States.
Service social familial > États-Unis.
Services à domicile aux familles > États-Unis.
Familles inadaptées > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Child welfare
Dysfunctional families
Family social work
Home-based family services
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Welfare & Social Work - General.
Social Sciences.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The call to preserve families
  • The policy framework of permanency planning and family preservation
  • The empirical base for family preservation principles
  • Intensive family preservation service models
  • Family preservation programs and their effectiveness
  • Administrative and organizational issues
  • Determining "risk" and targeting appropriate cases
  • The relative efficacy of hard and soft services
  • Combining research and practice tools
  • Future directions for family preservation.

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