Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era
This book explores the experiences of Aboriginal mothers of Stolen Generations children, providing new insights into our understanding of this era. It reflects critically on human rights processes based on truth-telling, raising important issues about who gets to speak at such processes and whose voices are heard and validated.
Theory, Application, and the Best Interests of the Child
Helps social workers and mental health practitioners gain a broader understanding of a child's unique needs when in the midst of family crisis. This book presents guidelines for addressing the changing developmental needs of children who have experienced crises such as abuse, neglect, relocation, divorce, and more.
Offers an assessment of how children's rights take shape and are realized at various stages of child development and, in turn, can and should inform law and policy Children's rights and child development frameworks are critical to understanding children's lived experiences, advancing child wellbeing, and implementing children's rights. However, ......
Walks readers step by step through the process of conducting the evaluation, including how to work with children and parents; when to consider and how to incorporate psychological testing; and how to write up the report, including the importance of providing a thorough analysis explaining the link between the data and your conclusions.
A handbook for protecting children and vulnerable adults
Any practitioner who begins work in the difficult and unique professional arena of public protection feels that they are entering a different world, made up of its own unique processes and guidelines and which, on many occasions, appears to have a language of its own.
Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era
The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report.
By utilizing socio-legal principles as the theoretical underpinnings to each chapter, the contributors offer novel perspectives on how diverse societies across the globe shape family law and ways in which norms within family law may be changed over time.
Controlling, surveilling, and punishing poor families through the child welfare system In a typical year, one in five US children have some interaction with the child welfare system. Countless other families, particularly those who struggle to care for their children due to poverty or economic insecurity, fear child welfare system involvement. ......
