This Handbook provides an accessible resource for all social work students, educators, practitioners, and policymakers to increase their knowledge and understanding of how research into the diversity and impact of child and family social work interventions might underpin and drive policy and practice.
Divided into six sections
* The Context of Child and Family Social Work Research
* Preventive and Reparative Responses to Children and Families
* Child Maltreatment: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
* Alternate Care as an Approach to Safeguarding Children and Young People
* Intervention: Therapeutic Responses to Vulnerable Children, Youth, and Families
* Child and Family Social Work in the Global Context
and comprising 52 newly written chapters by experts in the field, it provides a foundational overview of the field of child and family social work, including defining concepts, sentinel historical milestones, and the scope of practice. It also identifies developments in auxiliary fields such as neuroscience, psychology, education, health, poverty, and media
By illustrating diverse research endeavours in parenting, maltreatment, prevention, child protection, and substitutive interventions including foster care, residential care, adoption, and juvenile corrections and elaborating child welfare research methods, measures, and impacts on practice, it analyses evidence-based interventions and policies in early intervention, child protection, child placement, adoption, and advocacy.
It will be required reading for anyone working in social work and child protection.
Industry Reviews
The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research is an extraordinary venture led by superb scholars with impeccable timing. These more than 50 chapters exude child welfare research's growing breadth and depth. These globe-spanning authors probe underlying value propositions of child welfare research, conceptual contributions, program evaluation, surveys, case studies, and causal models. Often drawing on cross-national data and descriptions the handbook confidently points the way to future opportunities.
Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW
Professor and Past-President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
This comprehensive collection drawing on research from more than 10 countries provides a rich, research-informed, reference for researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Aspects covered include child maltreatment, prevention, child and family interventions and global issues. A huge contribution to the field.
Emeritus Professor Judy Sebba, Rees Centre, University of Oxford
This handbook is an excellent resource for researchers, practitioners, and students of child welfare. It tackles key barriers to child well-being and presents approaches to child welfare research, and evidence informed interventions from different country and cultural perspectives. The handbook fills a gap in the literature.
Professor Emeritus Margarita Frederico AM; DSci, La Trobe University, Australia
