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Child welfare : current issues, practices and challenges / Alex Powell and Jenna Gray-Peterson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Children's issues, laws and programs series.
- Social issues, justice and status series.
- Children's issues, laws and programs
- Social issues, justice and status
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare.
- Children--Services for.
- Children.
- Child health services.
- Mental health services.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Publishers, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the current issues, practices and challenges related to child welfare today. Topics include mental health oversight for children and adolescents in child welfare custody; children in foster care and excessive medications; youth sexuality and health conditions; secondary traumatic stress in child welfare professionals; transforming mental health practices in child-serving systems; educational vulnerability of children and youth in foster care; developing a child welfare and child protection system in China; and mindfulness training for addressing the needs of child welfare system children and families.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62257-827-9
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