Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective

by Cynthia Crosson-Tower

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An engaging, comprehensive overview of services for children and their families.
This practical, engaging, and informative book provides a comprehensive look at child welfare services and what can be done to best help children and families in today’s society. The new 7th Edition looks through the lens of trauma-informed care, stressing the importance of ensuring that children experience no further trauma while services are being explored. The text emphasizes the practice perspective and features numerous case examples that allow students to get a real-life look at the population they will be serving. References to applicable social work competencies appear throughout the book to help guide readers in learning how the competencies apply to practice situations. The new edition also features a new chapter on trauma-sensitive education and a new chapter on juvenile court services. In the new Enhanced Pearson eText version of the title, links to embedded videos further enhance students’ understanding of pertinent points and services, quiz questions at the end of each section help students gauge what they have learned, and essay questions at the end of each chapter challenge students to apply their learning. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText*
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Genres: Social Work

448 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 1997

Reviews

[Aimee J Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my textbook required read for my Child Welfare Class. For a textbook, this was probably one of the most engaging I have read for reasons that I cannot even begin to get into. Extremely graphic and very emotion evoking, for a textbook. Extremely sad.

Anyone involved in CPS, DCFS, or DSCC would understand what I meant.

The book also offers many interactive study tools, media assets that help the reader to apply the concepts to real-life, links to videos, interactive skill modules, social work in the news (very up to date).

[Kiera · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a textbook so it's expected data will be outdated, but oh my god? It was written in 2014 with language that should've been offensive then too. Also a lot of stereotyping of cultures, classes, genders, and sexual orientations. Idk if I can say I even learned much from this book other than I'm glad it's done.

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trying to reach my Goodreads goal. 3 stars because this is a literal textbook, but overall informative. Read 7th edition