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| All chapters conclude with "Summary," "Exploration Questions," "Activities for Applied Learning," "Suggested Reading," and "References." | |
| Preface | |
| Children: Our Most Important Resource | |
| A Brief History of Child Welfare | |
| Providing Services for Children Today | |
| The Changing Family | |
| The Responsibilities and Rights of the Family | |
| The Setting for Today's Family | ... MORE|
| Profile of Today's Family | |
| Types of Families | |
| The Emotional Climate of Families | |
| The Impact of Culture on Families | |
| The Family Life Cycle | |
| Stresses on Families | |
| When Families Need Help | |
| Trends | |
| Childhood Poverty in the United States | |
| Childhood Poverty: Characteristics of Poor Children | |
| Poverty Defined | |
| Why Children Live in Poverty | |
| Consequences of Growing Up in Poverty | |
| Recent Efforts to Fight Poverty | |
| The Economics of Poverty | |
| Reducing Child Poverty | |
| An Important Footnote | |
| Current Societal Problems and Their Impact on Children | |
| Violence, Addiction, and Homelessness | |
| Children and Violence | |
| Children and Substance Abuse | |
| Homeless Families | |
| Homeless and Runaway Youths | |
| Servicing the Developing Child: Day-Care and School-Based Services | |
| Day Care: Serving Infants and Pre-School Children | |
| School-Based Services | |
| Counseling for Families and Children | |
| What Is Counseling? | |
| When a Family Might Seek Counseling | |
| Attitudes About Receiving Counseling | |
| Changing Attitudes About Counseling | |
| Types of Counseling | |
| The Counseling Process | |
| The Experience of Counseling | |
| Trends in Counseling Services | |
| Ethical Consideration in Counseling | |
| Protecting Children When Families Cannot: Child Abuse and Neglect | |
| Historical View | |
| Maltreatment Defined | |
| Reporting Child Maltreatment | |
| Court Intervention in Protective Cases | |
| The Role of the Protective Services Worker | |
| Reflections of an Abused Child: Consumer Perspective | |
| Future Trends in Protective Services | |
| Family Preservation or Child Placement? Serving the Best Interests of the Child | |
| A Brief History of Family-Based Services | |
| Demonstrating Effectiveness in Family-Based Services | |
| Types of Family-Based Services | |
| Family Preservation Worker | |
| Preserve the Family or Place the Child? | |
| Shaping the future of Family-Based Services | |
| Court Services on Behalf of Children | |
| A Historical Perspective | |
| Situations Warranting Juvenile Court Intervention | |
| Factors Influencing Court Intervention | |
| The Rights of Juveniles | |
| Juvenile Court Process and Procedures | |
| The Role of the Social Worker and the Court | |
| Consumer Perspective | |
| Alternative Approaches to Court Intervention | |
| Treatment of Juvenile Offenders | |
| Trends | |
| Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting | |
| Introduction | |
| Historical Perspective | |
| Through the Eyes of Society: Myths Revisited | |
| Demographics | |
| Teens At-Risk | |
| How Teens Make Decisions About Fertility and Childbearing | |
| Fathers | |
| A Teen's View | |
| Services: Primary Prevention | |
| Services: Secondary Prevention | |
| Trends in Pregnancy Prevention | |
| Children in Family Foster Care | |
| History of Family Foster Care | |
| The Nature of Foster Care Today | |
| Foster Parents | |
| Birth Parents with Children in Foster Care | |
| Children in Foster Care | |
| The Role of the Foster Care Social Worker | |
| A Former Foster Child Recalls Life in Care | |
| The Future of Foster Care | |
| The Adoption of Children | |
| The History of Adoption | |
| Definitions and Assumptions | |
| Issues in Adoption Today | |
| Adoptive Participants | |
| The Adoptive Process | |
| The Role of the Adoption Worker | |
| The Search | |
| Trends | |
| Children in Residential Settings | |
| Historical Perspective | |
| Assumptions About Residential Care | |
| Types of Residential Settings | |
| Children in Residential Settings | |
| Life in a Residential Setting | |
| Working with Families of Children in Residential Care | |
| The Role of Staff in a Residential Setting | |
| Termination | |
| A Former Resident Remembers: Jennifer's Story | |
| Problems with Residential Settings | |
| Trends | |
| Our Children's Future | |
| What Is in Our Children's Future? | |
| Preparing Those Who Help Children | |
| Child Welfare in the Twenty-First Century | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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