How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children : For Better or for Worse?

ISBN-13: 9780789024626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 242 str.

Catherine Dulmus; Catherine N. Dulmus

Opis

Experts in the fields of social work and child welfare explore the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being.

Spis treści

• Introduction (Catherine N. Dulmus and Karen M. Sowers)
  
• Emphasizing Caregiver Strengths to Avoid Out-of-Home Placement of Children with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances (John H. Pierpont)
  
• Benevolent Intervention or Oppression Perpetuated: Minority Overrepresentation in Children’s Services (Kimberly D. Crane and Rodney A. Ellis)
  
• Development Outcomes of Vulnerable Youth in the Child Welfare System (Sunny Hyucksun Shin)
  
• Permanency Planning for HIV/AIDS Affected Children: Options for Care (Jenny Jones)
  
• The Relationship of Child Protection Service Caseworker Discipline-Specific Education and Definition of Sibling Abuse: An Institutional Hiring Impact Study (Frances Bernard Kominkiewicz)
  
• Institutions of Youth Development: The Significance of Supportive Staff-Youth Relationships (Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Scottye J. Cash, Susan Saltzburg, Theresa Midle, and Debra Pace)
  
• Navigating the Concrete Jungle: African American Children and Adolescents in Urban Public Housing Developments (Stan L. Bowie)
  
• A Community-Based Multiple Family Group Intervention for Sheltered Families: Impact of the Weekend Retreat (Timothy L. Davey and Melissa L. Abell)
  
• Using Family-Oriented Treatment to Improve Placement Outcomes for Children and Youth in Residential Treatment (John H. Pierpont and Kaye McGinty)
  
• How School Environments Contribute to Violent Behavior in Youth (Carolyn Hilarski)
  
• Student-Teacher Relationships: An Overlooked Factor in School Dropout (Kathryn S. Davis and David R. Dupper)
  
• Life Plans: A Critical Component in the Rehabilitation of Post-Institutionalized Romanian Youth (Debra Schell-Frank, Tiberius Rotaru, Sandra L. Iverson, and Kathryn N. Dole)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Catherine Dulmus, Karen Sowers