Towards positive systems of child and family welfare : international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems /

The need for services that respond to the 'maltreatment' of children and to the struggles of families is at the core of social service systems in all developed nations. While these child and family welfare systems confront similar problems and incorporate common elements, there are substan...

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Other Authors: Cameron, Gary (Editor), Freymond, Nancy, 1962- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems of child and family welfare / Gary Cameron and Nancy Freymond
  • Learning from difference : comparing child welfare systems / Rachael Hetherington
  • Promoting change from 'child protection' to 'child and family welfare' : the problems of the English system / Rachael Hetherington and Tracey Nurse
  • Forming and sustaining partnerships in child and family welfare : the American experience / Patricia Schene
  • Problems and potential of Canadian child welfare / Karen Swift and Marilyn Callahan
  • The plight of paternalism in French child welfare and protective policies and practices / Alain Grevot
  • Child and family welfare in Sweden / Gunvor Andersson
  • When one door shuts, another opens : turning disadvantages into opportunities in child and family welfare in the Netherlands / A.W.M. Veldkamp
  • 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
  • Maori perspectives on collaboration and colonization in contemporary Aotearoa / New Zealand child and family welfare policies and practices / Catherine Love
  • First Nations child and family serivces and Indigenous knowledge as a framework for research, policy, and practice / Marlyn Bennett and Cindy Blackstock
  • Learning from international comparisons of child protection, family service, and community caring systems of child and family welfare / Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron.