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  • How Does Foster Care Work?

    International Evidence on Outcomes

    de Nancy Sampson, Robert Flynn, Robbie Gilligan, Elaine Farmer, Eva Franzen, Lee Ann Murdock, Mónica López, Fred Wulczyn, Harriet Ward, Frank Lindblad, Anders Hjern, Robyn Marquis, Ronald Kessler, Lijun Chen, Tine Egelund, Piet Strijker, Peter Pecora, June Thoburn, Marie-Pierre Paquet, Irving Hwang, Lajla Knudsen, Kirk O'Brien, Ian Sinclair, Fiona Daly, Anne-Dorthe Hestbaeck, Bo VINNERLJUNG, E. Christopher Lloyd, Paul Delfabbro, CATHERINE ROLLER ROLLER WHITE, Jorge Fernandez del del Valle ...
    Series series Child Welfare Outcomes
    How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice.This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Improving Outcomes for Children and Families

    Finding and Using International Evidence

    de Robyn Munford, Anat Zeira, Robin Spath, Patricia McNamara, Barbara Pine, Hans Grietens, Kirk O'Brien, Colleen Reed, Kate Holmes, Jackie Sanders, Nina Biehal, Anne Nicoll, Marion Brandon, Arron Fain, Chris Warren-Adamson, Bruce Maden, Peter Pecora, Mark Ezell, June Thoburn, Marianne Berry, CATHERINE ROLLER ROLLER WHITE ...
    Series series Child Welfare Outcomes
    Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. With contributions from leading international experts ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • Child Well-Being

    Understanding Children's Lives

    de Sylda Langford, Peter Pecora, Markell Harrison-Jackson, Asher Ben-Arieh, John Rowlands, Johnathan Bradshaw, Anne-Marie Brooks, J Aldgate, Roger Morgan, Pat Dolan, Jonathan Bradshaw1, John Rowland2, Pamela Munn3, Sinead Hanafin4, Professor Colette McAuley5 ...
    Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally. However, a lack of clarity remains about what the idea really means and how it can help children.This book brings together contributions from international experts in order to define child well-being and to ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Child Welfare Challenge

    Policy, Practice, and Research

    de Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Richard P. Barth, Sharon Borja, William Vesneski ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families through Effective Interventions

    International Evidence for Practice

    de Jim Wade, Arnon Bentovim, Danielle Turney, David Quinton, Kate Wilson, Karen Tanner, Ian Sinclair ...
    Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well.This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research evidence from the UK and USA on the effectiveness of selected child welfare interventions. It addresses the challenges of measuring effectiveness in child welfare and ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Evaluating Family-Based Services

    Edición de Peter J. Pecora ...
    Family-based service (FBS) programs have been developing rapidly across the country at a time of increasingly scarce human resources and in a politically volatile climate. Such a context has made evaluation of such programs imperative. The present volume reviews basic elements of evaluation in the light of current knowledge and then highlights the most useful research instruments for measuring ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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  • A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties

    de Chris Taylor ...
    This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties.It explains what attachment is, what different patterns of attachment look like in children and young people, how early attachment experiences affect their lives, and how this understanding can help childcare workers to develop therapeutic ways of caring. ... Leer más

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  • Fragmented Democracy

    Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics

    de Jamila Michener ...
    Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, ... Leer más

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  • Investing in Children

    Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries

    Edición de Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, Jenny Chesters ...
    Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development.The volume is organized around three major issues: parental employment, early ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis

    Statistical Methods and Applications

    de Prabuddha Sanyal, Suresh Babu ...
    Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Analysis provides essential insights into the evaluative techniques necessary for creating appropriate and effective policies and programs to address these worldwide issues. Food scientists and nutritionists will use this important information, presented in a conceptual framework and through case studies for exploring representative problems, identifying and ... Leer más

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  • Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty

    Anticipating Surprise and Responding to the Inevitable

    de Jonathan A. Morell, PhD ...
    Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in costs of evaluation surprises. The result is evaluation that is better from a methodological point of view, and more responsive to stakeholders. Jonathan A. Morell identifies the types of surprises ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Research Methods in Africana Studies | Revised Edition

    de Serie McDougal III ...
    Series Libro 97 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    The revised edition of Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. The first edition was the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. The ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD