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The Handbook on Child Welfare Practice

The Handbook on Child Welfare Practice

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The Handbook on Child Welfare Practice is a comprehensive resource that combines cutting-edge research and best practices in child welfare to teach and refine advanced skills for aspiring professionals. It covers policies, assessment, prevention, foster care, collaboration, and professional development, aiming to improve the well-being of children and families.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 335 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG


This comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource seamlessly integrates cutting-edge research and best practices in child welfare into a text designed to impart and enhance advanced child welfare skills for aspiring professionals in the field. With real-life examples and anecdotes from the field, the handbook delves into existing methods and challenges in child welfare practice. Chapters also include valuable materials for instructors to utilize in classrooms or training settings.

Among the topics covered:

An overview of child welfare policies and how the child welfare system operates.

Assessment tools and strategies employed to identify diverse forms of child abuse and neglect.

Individual, family, and community-level approaches to preventing child maltreatment and preserving families.

Promoting stability after foster care placement.

Effective collaboration while working with special populations.

Clinical supervision in child welfare practice.

Strategies for healthy professional development of child welfare practitioners.

The Handbook on Child Welfare Practice serves as a valuable resource, serving as both a textbook in child welfare practice courses and a practical reference for child welfare professionals. By fostering knowledge and skill development in this critical field, this book contributes to the formation of a more knowledgeable and skilled child welfare workforce, well-equipped to address the significant public health concern of child maltreatment.

Weight: 548g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030739140
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021

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