Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems
Herausgeber: Freymond, Nancy; Cameron, Gary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780802093714
• ISBN-10: 080209371X
• Artikelnr.: 21860233

Autorenporträt

Edited by Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: OVERVIEW
1. Understanding International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family
Service, and Community Caring Systems of Child and Family Welfare
GARY CAMERON and NANCY FREYMOND
2. Learning from Difference: Comparing Child Welfare Systems
RACHAEL HETHERINGTON
PART TWO: CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEMS
1. Promoting Change from ‘Child Protection’ to ‘Child and Family Welfare’: The
Problems of the English System
RACHAEL HETHERINGTON and TRACEY NURSE
2. Forming and Sustaining Partnerships in Child and Family Welfare: The
American Experience
PATRICIA SCHENE
3. Problems and Potential of Canadian Child Welfare
KAREN SWIFT and MARILYN CALLAHAN
PART THREE: FAMILY SERVICE SYSTEMS
4. The Plight of Paternalism in French Child Welfare and Protective Policies
and Practices
ALAIN GREVOT
5. Child and Family Welfare in Sweden
GUNVOR ANDERSSON
6. When One Door Shuts, Another Opens: Turning Disadvantages into
Opportunities in Child and Family Welfare in the Netherlands
A.W.M. VELDKAMP
PART FOUR: COMMUNITY CARING SYSTEMS
7. 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
8. Maori Perspectives on Collaboration and Colonization in Contemporary
Aotearoa / New Zealand Child and Family Welfare Policies and Practices
CATHERINE LOVE
9. First Nations Child and Family Services and Indigenous Knowledge as a
Framework for Research, Policy, and Practice
MARLYN BENNETT and CINDY BLACKSTOCK
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
10. Learning from International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family
Service, and Community Caring Systems of Child and Family Welfare
NANCY FREYMOND and GARY CAMERON
Appendix A: Partners in Child Protection and Well-Being
Appendix B: Guiding Principles for Building Partnerships
Appendix C: Timeline of the Evolution of the French Child Protection System
Glossary
References
List of Contributors