Child welfare research
Subtitle: advances for practice and policy
By: edited by Duncan Lindsey and Aron Shlonsky.
Contributors: Lindsey, Duncan.; Shlonsky, Aron.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195304961
Subjects: Child welfare -- Research -- United States; Children -- Institutional care -- United States; Children -- Institutional care -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology of child maltreatment / Nico Trocma; title: Informing child welfare : the promise and limits of empirical research / Leroy H. Pelton; title: Providing more effective, ethical services : the philosophy and process of evidence-based (informed) practice / Eileen Gambrill; title: How do we know what works? : the quality of published reviews of evidence-based practices / Julia H. Littell; title: The influence of an adoption experiment on social policy / Trudy Festinger; title: New permanency strategies for children in foster care / Mark Testa; title: The transition to adulthood among youth "aging out" of care : what have we learned? / Amy Dworsky; title: Moving restorative justice interventions into domestic violence treatment / Coleen Friend; title: A descriptive study of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment : implications for child welfare policy / Lynette M. Renner, Kristen Shook Slack, Lawrence M. Berger; title: Decision making in child welfare : constraints and potentials / Eileen Gambrill; title: Lessons from research on decision-making / Eileen Munro; title: Assessing risk throughout the life of a child welfare case / Judith Rycus, Ron Hughes; title: Improving social work through the use of technology and advanced research methods / Ira M. Schwartz, Peter R. Jones, David Schwartz, Zoran Obradovic; title: The future of child protection revisited / Jane Waldfogel; title: The implementation of market-based child welfare innovations / William Meezan, Bowen McBeath; title: Self-evaluation : using data to guide policy and practice in public child welfare agencies / Daniel Webster, Lynn Usher, Barbara Needell, Judith Wildfire; title: Comparing welfare and child welfare populations : an argument for rethinking the safety net / Mark E. Courtney and Amy Dworsky; title: Promoting child well-being through early intervention : findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study / Arthur J. Reynolds, Joshua Mersky; title: Heeding Horton : transcending the public welfare paradigm / David Stoesz; title: Accounts at birth : creating a national system for savings and asset building with children's savings accounts / Reid Cramer; title: Beyond child welfare : international perspectives on child and family policies / Sheila. B. Kamerman; title: Alfred . J. Kahn; title: The effect of children on the income status of female-headed households : an intercountry comparison / Martha N. Ozawa, Yongwoo Lee.