Social Policy for Children and Families
Title | Social Policy for Children and Families PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey M. Jenson |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | 500 |
Release | 2015-02-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1483344541 |
The Third Edition of Jeffrey M. Jenson and Mark W. Fraser’s award-winning text, Social Policy for Children and Families, offers new evidence that a public health framework based on ecological theory and principles of risk, protection, and resilience is essential for the successful design and implementation of social policy. Written in a conversational, reader-friendly style and incorporating cutting-edge research, this carefully crafted book maps a pathway for developing resilience-based social policies. In every chapter, experts in their respective fields apply the editors’ conceptual model across the substantive domains of child and family poverty, child welfare, education, mental health, health, developmental disabilities, substance use, and juvenile justice. Recipient of the Best Edited Book Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence in 2008, the book is an ideal core text for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses and a vital resource for elected officials, policy makers, and others interested in the evolution of policies aimed at preventing problem behaviors and supporting children and families.
Social Policy for Children and Families
Title | Social Policy for Children and Families PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Hall |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2021-07-23 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1544371470 |
Conversational and applied, Social Policy for Children and Families is an award-winning collection of cutting-edge research from from across policy sectors in the human services.
Social Policy for Children and Families
Title | Social Policy for Children and Families PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey M. Jenson |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1412981395 |
Rev. ed. of: Social policy for children & families: a risk and resilience perspective. 2006.
Social Policy for Child and Family Development
Title | Social Policy for Child and Family Development PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas W. Roberts |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2017-12-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781516521166 |
Social Policy for Child and Family Development: A Systems/Dialectical Perspective is designed to help students think critically and dialectically about social policies that affect children and families. Based on the belief that no single policymaking position has all the answers, the book offers a model that reduces the tendency to present only one viewpoint. As they move through the text, readers use this model to evaluate the effectiveness of specific policies. The book addresses issues such as alcohol, nicotine, and drug use during pregnancy, social policy and poverty, education, family development, and technology. The material also discusses child abuse and neglect, social media and ethnicity, and the future of social policy on child and family development. Each chapter includes learning objectives, key terms, study questions, a debate activity, additional reading resources, and a list of references. Social Policy for Child and Family Development is well suited to courses in child and family studies or consumer sciences. Thomas W. Roberts is a professor in the Department of Child and Family Development at San Diego State University. He teaches courses in family studies and public policy. His research interests include attachment in long-term marriages, parenting, applying neuroscience to marital therapy, and the role of religion and ethical values on family development. He has numerous publications and is the author of the book A Systems Perspective of Parenting: the Child, the Family and the Social Network. He is the founder and President of Improving Developmental Experiences Across the Lifespan (IDEALS), a 501(c)3 non-profit. Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1984.
Children and Families in the Social Environment
Title | Children and Families in the Social Environment PDF eBook |
Author | James Garbarino |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351528963 |
The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior, Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society, Garbarino has once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition, he has incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic, cultural, and racial issues.
The Child Welfare Challenge
Title | The Child Welfare Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Pecora |
Publisher | AldineTransaction |
Total Pages | 461 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0202363864 |
Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. In addition to describing the major problems facing the field, the book highlights service innovations that have been developed in recent years. The resulting picture is encouraging, especially if certain major program reforms I are implemented and agencies are able to concentrate resources in a focused manner. The volume emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies. The book considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services—where social work has an important role. Authors address the many fields of practice in which child and family services are provided or that involve substantial numbers of social work programs, such as services to adolescent parents, child mental health, education, and juvenile justice agencies. This new edition will continue to serve as a fundamental introduction for new practitioners, as well as summary of recent developments for experienced practitioners.
Children, Families, and States
Title | Children, Families, and States PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Allemann-Ghionda |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857450972 |
Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue. Comparing the development of different “time policies” of half-day and all-day provisions in a variety of Eastern and Western European countries since the end of World War II, this innovative volume brings together internationally known experts from the fields of comparative education, history, and the social and political sciences, and makes a significant contribution to this new interdisciplinary field of comparative study.