Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective

by Cynthia Crosson-Tower

Exploring Child Welfare provides an overall look at all aspects of the provision of services for children and their families, from services that enhance and support family life to those that substitute for the child's own home. The Fifth Edition of this accessible and engaging text continues to reflect the author's strong practice perspective and incorporates new developments in welfare reform and child welfare services.

Genres: Social Work, School

480 pages, Hardcover

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It's a textbook so it's expected data will be outdated, but oh my god?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