Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field, 1st Edition

Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field is a comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. This textbook provides a single source for all material necessary for a contextual child welfare course. As well as combining history, theory, and practice, the authors integrate different practice perspectives to teach social workers how to engage children and families at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Covering both broad issues, such as child welfare, child maltreatment, and responses to child maltreatment, and current issues in social care, including mandated reporting and evidence-based policy prevention and preservation, the material is designed to meet the needs of social work students entering the child welfare workforce. Child Welfare provides students in social work courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with a single source for all material necessary to successfully navigate their studies and careers.Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field 1st Edition is written by Kathryn Krase; Tobi Delong-Hamilton and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Child Welfare are 9781315436999, 131543699X and the print ISBNs are 9781138218833, 1138218839. Additional ISBNs include 9781138218826, 9781315437019, 9781315436982, 9781315437002.