The Child Welfare System: Perspectives, Challenges and Future Directions

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Boyd Wolfe (Editor)

Series: Social Issues, Justice and Status, Social Welfare Policies and Programs – Patterns, Implications and Prospects
BISAC: POL029000

The Child Welfare System: Perspectives, Challenges and Future Directions opens with a description of the empirical results of a study on bird’s nest parenting as a form of shared parenting. Bird’s nest parenting ensures that children have both a stable home with the continuity of their prior lifestyle and the chance to live everyday life with both parents.

Next, the authors report the findings of child protection workers’ experiences with and perspectives on child engagement in the context of child protection assessment in Estonia. Child protective workers make difficult decisions that affect the everyday lives of children and their families, including removing children and dismantling families, and therefore careful and comprehensive assessment is one of the most significant challenges in the field.

The closing chapter considers the connection between agency practices and environments on child outcomes such as length of time spent in foster care, placement changes, and child mental health.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Bird’s Nest Parenting as a Child-Centered Solution in the Context of Shared Parenting
(Rafaela Lehtme and Karmen Toros, PhD, School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, and others)

Chapter 2. Child Protection Workers’ Reflections of Child Engagement within Child Protection Practice Assessment Contexts
(Karmen Toros, PhD, School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia)

Chapter 3. Organizational and Environmental Influences of Staff and Client Outcomes in Child Welfare: The Impact of Macro Level Factors on Practice
(Elizabeth Bowman, Social Work Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, District of Columbia)

Index

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