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Helping in child protective services : a competency-based casework handbook / edited by Charmaine R. Brittain and Deborah Esquibel Hunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social case work with children--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Social case work with children.
- Child welfare--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Child welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (577 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This second edition of 'Helping in Child Protective Services' is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators. This invaluable resource provides CPS workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to assist vulnerable families, covering such key issues as assessment, decision making, intervention, child development, medical evaluation, accountability, and the legal framework of culturally responsive practice. This handbook equips CPS professionals and students to follow the casework process from intake through case closure with step-by-step instructions and examples.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; 1 The CPS Experience: Working with a Family from Beginning to End; 2 The History of Child Protective Services; 3 The Casework Process; 4 Key Partners in Protecting Children and Supporting Families; 5 Interviewing Children and Families; 6 Intake and Investigation: Initial Stages of the CPS Process; 7 Assessment; 8 Child Development; 9 The Medical Evaluation of Abuse and Neglect; 10 Intervention with Families; 11 The Legal Framework for Child Protective Services; 12 Accountability in Child Protective Services; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 22, 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028987-2
- 0-19-774235-1
- 0-19-803662-0
- 9786610503254
- 0-19-530378-4
- 1-280-50325-4
- 1-4237-3538-2
- 1-60256-860-X
- OCLC:
- 476106945
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