Child welfare revisited : an Africentric perspective / edited by Joyce E. Everett, Sandra P. Chipungu, and Bogart R. Leashore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Everett, Joyce.

Chipungu, Sandra S. (Sandra Stukes), 1950-

Leashore, Bogart R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work with African American children.

Social work with African Americans.

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction / Joyce E. Everett

The demography of African American families and children at the end of the twentieth century / Jacqueline Marie Smith

Institutional racism in child welfare / Robert B. Hill

The impact of child welfare policies on African American families / Sandra P. Chipungu

Informing the future of child welfare practices with African American families / Joyce O. Beckett and Nicole Lynn Lee

African American families in context / Melvin N. Wilson, LaKeesha N. Woods, and Gina R. Hijjawi

Child-rearing practices in African American families / Carmen P. Moten

Best practices in kinship care for African American mothers and their children / Marian S. Harris

Unwed African American fathers' participation in child welfare permanency planning / Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. and Vaughn D. Bryant

Substance abuse, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and African American children / Joshua N. Okundaye, Claudia Lawrence-Webb, and Pamela L. Thornton

An Africentric paradigm for child welfare practice / Crystal S. Mills and Debra Porchia Usher

Family preservation and neighborhood-based services / Alma J. Carten and James R. Dumpson

A culturally competent system of care for addressing mental health disparities in child welfare / Maxwell C. Manning

African American adoptions / Ruth G. McRoy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813534623

0813534631

OCLC:

54046970