Delivering Foster Care

Delivering Foster Care
Author: John Triseliotis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Delivering Foster Care gives an informed picture of who fosters children, why and for how long, and the rewards and difficulties experienced. It also looks at the issues involved in developing a fostering policy and the problems faced by local authorities.

Fostering Now

Fostering Now
Author: Ian Sinclair
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005-05-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1846421373

* What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? * What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? * What are the most important elements of a successful placement? * Can foster care offer a permanent alternative to care at home? Fostering Now brings together authoritative research on foster care in the UK. It provides a succinct overview of a wide range of research projects and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process. Drawing on the varied experiences and views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, this book looks at how placement outcomes are influenced by factors such as foster carers' parenting styles, contact with the child's own parents, and the child's gender, ethnicity, age and physical and emotional health. Other important areas examined include care given by relatives, the effects of foster care on education, and what happens to foster children when they return home. Fostering Now identifies the most significant challenges currently faced by foster care and draws out the key messages for policy and practice. It offers important insights into the state of foster care today, and suggests how it can be improved in future. This book is essential reading for social workers, policy makers, academics and foster carers.

Delivering Health Care in America

Delivering Health Care in America
Author: Leiyu Shi
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780763731991

Delivering Health Care in America, Third Edition provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the basic structures and operations of one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy. With the most current data, legislation, and overall system changes addressed, the third edition covers the conceptual basis for the system, its historical origins, the structures of ambulatory care, inpatient care, and other important services structures, the translation of these structures into health services themselves, and the manifestations of their impact on costs and quality. The text includes learning objectives, review questions, and key terminology.

Delivering Home-based Services

Delivering Home-based Services
Author: Susan F. Allen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231141475

Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services require models that ensure positive outcomes and address the ethical dilemmas that might arise in such sensitive contexts. The contributors to this volume are national experts in diverse fields of social work practice, policy, and research. Treating the home as an ecological setting that guides human development and family interaction, they present rationales for and overviews of evidence-based models across an array of populations and fields of practice. Part 1 provides historical background and contemporary applications for home-based services, highlighting ethical, administrative, and supervision issues and summarizing the social policies that shape service delivery. Part 2 addresses home-based practice in such fields as child and adult mental health, school social work, and hospice care, detailing the particular population being treated, the policy and agency context, theories and empirical data, and practice guidelines. Part 3, the editors present a unifying framework and suggest future directions for home-based social work.

Foster Care

Foster Care
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1993
Genre: Child welfare
ISBN:

Developing, Delivering, and Sustaining School Counseling Practices Through a Culturally Affirming Lens

Developing, Delivering, and Sustaining School Counseling Practices Through a Culturally Affirming Lens
Author: Brant-Rajahn, Sarah N.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2022-05-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799895165

Systemic oppression continues to disenfranchise students at the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigrant status, religion, ableism, and economic status. Because of this, school counselors are called to function as advocates and change agents, but often find themselves underprepared to address these oppressive systems in schools. It is vital that school counselors are provided resources that enable them to increase their preparedness and allow them to address oppressive practices within schools as well as work with diverse populations using culturally affirming and antiracist practices. Developing, Delivering, and Sustaining School Counseling Practices Through a Culturally Affirming Lens informs culturally affirming and antiracist professional practice and advocacy work by school counselors. It serves as a learning tool that better prepares school counselors to address the needs of marginalized students and work as effective change agents to disrupt systemic oppression in school settings. Covering topics such as professional identity, racial trauma, and social justice, this book serves as a dynamic resource for school counselor educators, school counselors-in-training, school counselors, directors, supervisors, district leaders and administration, researchers, and academicians as they implement antiracist, social justice, and culturally affirming practices in school settings and academia.

Child-Centred Foster Care

Child-Centred Foster Care
Author: Annabel Goodyer
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857004026

Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the agenda and their voices are not heard. This book sets out a child-centred approach to foster care which argues against thinking about children purely from a psychological perspective and instead places children's views, rights and needs at the centre of care. It sets out the theory behind working in partnership with children who are fostered, and discusses children's views about fostering systems and living with foster carers. The book then outlines how to put the theory into practice, offering models, processes and best practice examples. Practical advice is given on establishing effective communication and good working relationships between practitioners, carers and foster children. This insightful book aims to promote better services and outcomes for fostered children, and will be essential reading for social work practitioners and students.

Foster Care, Problems and Issues

Foster Care, Problems and Issues
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1976
Genre: Child development
ISBN:

The Lives of Foster Carers

The Lives of Foster Carers
Author: Linda Nutt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134246021

The Lives of Foster Carers analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family life. Topics covered include: social policy pertinent to childcare the history of foster care service available literature on the experience of foster carers public versus private domains in foster care motivations and roles of foster carers how foster carers perceive themselves and their foster children. Based on a wide range of literature and in-depth interviews with forty-six foster carers, this book provides a valuable insight into the concerns, processes and experiences of foster carers in the UK. Jargon free and accessible, it will appeal to foster carers, practitioners, students and academics in social care, youth work and childcare as well as policy makers in children’s services.