Given the multiple fields in which case management occurs and the relatively early stage of its research-based literature, the bibliography does not target a particular area or topic, but presents a wide array of information that reflects the diversity of publications concerning case management. Entries include materials that review case management practices and case manager functions, evaluations that consider both the process and outcomes of case management, and descriptions of case management operations. From several hundred articles, books, and monographs, we selected those that address issues of current concern and interest, focus on practices that cross organizational boundaries, and generally include young children in the population served. An index on page 35 categorizes the topics discussed. To narrow the many published candidates appropriate for this bibliography, we selected items published within the past ten years that are currently in print and available through a library or for purchase.
Entries deal directly with case management.
This bibliography also excludes most of the extensive body of work on case management in the fields of geriatrics and the mentally ill, neither of which focuses on young children. A few studies from these fields appear because their content has direct application to case management for vulnerable families with young children. The abstracts present the intentions and conclusions of the primary source authors, without our critique or analysis. The Kaiser Family Foundation also contributed to the bibliography through its support to NCCP for research on Medicaid-funded case management. We are grateful to the many people who helped develop and produce the bibliography.