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. |The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research Knowledge-Building Application and Impact | Health & Social Care
