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Childhood, youth, and social work in transformation : implications for policy and practice / Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook, and Janet L. Finn, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with children--United States.
- Social work with children.
- Social work with teenagers--United States.
- Social work with teenagers.
- Child welfare--Government policy--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (479 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare and education grows scarce. They are asked to save ""children at risk,"" while, at the same time, they are urged to protect communities from ""risky children""; and they are encouraged to ""leave no child behind,"" while also implementing ""zero tolerance"" policies to keep educational envi
- Contents:
- Introduction and conceptual framework / Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook, and Janet L. Finn
- Making trouble : representations of social work, youth, and pathology / Janet L. Finn
- Missing children : representing young people away from placement / Lynn M. Nybell
- It ain't as simple as it seems : risky youths, morality, and service markets in schools / Linwood H. Cousins
- "Stop the super jail for kids" : youth activism to reclaim childhood in the juvenile justice system / Jennifer Tilton
- Good mothers/teen mothers : claiming rights and responsibilities / Deborah Freedman Lustig
- The well-being of children and the question of attachment / Kerrie Ghenie and Charlie Wellenstein
- Childhood by geography : toward a framework of rights, responsibilities, and entitlements / Jeffrey J. Shook
- From "youth home" to "juvenile detention" : constructing disciplined children in Detroit / Luke Bergmann
- Educating all our children / Ruth Zweifler
- Constructing ability and disability among preschoolers in the Crestview head start program / Patricia A. Jessup
- Children and youth in a medicalized world : young people's agency in mental health treatment / Ben Stride-Darnley
- Accounting for risk : children and youth in community-based reform / Lynn M. Nybell
- "At risk" for becoming neoliberal subjects : rethinking the "normal" middle-class family / Rachel Heiman
- Child's eye view / Janet L. Finn
- On project SpeakOUT / Derrick Jackson
- The Marshall-Brennan constitutional literacy project : a case study in law and social justice / Maryam Ahranjani
- "You may even be president of the United States one day"? Challenging commercialized feminism in programming for girls in juvenile justice / Sara Goodkind
- Youth uprising : gritty youth leadership development and communal transformation / Jennifer Tilton
- Young people as leaders in conflict resolution / Charles D. Garvin
- Y.O.U.T.H. training project: foster youth as teachers to transform social work / Lori Fryzel and Jamie Lee Evans.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613629265
- 9781280599422
- 1280599421
- 9780231518529
- 0231518528
- OCLC:
- 826476344
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