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Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma  Author: Deborah D. Gray Hardcover: 510 pages Company: Perspectives Press (IN) (2007-07-15) ISBN: 0944934331 List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $17.18 Used Price: $16.00 Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Identification, Assessment and Case Management  Paperback: 370 pages Company: Volcano Press (2003-05) ISBN: 1884244211 List Price: $60.00 Amazon Price: $52.10 Used Price: $60.00 Child Abuse and Neglect: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)  This volume may serve as a text in a survey course, a seminar, or a clinical program. The materials are in sufficient detail to aid students who are searching for research topics and who are writing papers. It may also prove valuable to students in other disciplines, such as social welfare, psychology, and public health. And this text may also serve practitioners as it contains the relevant canon of Supreme Court cases and certain lower court cases. Author: Robert D. Goldstein Hardcover: 1088 pages Company: West Group Publishing (1999-10) ISBN: 031421156X List Price: $130.00 Amazon Price: $130.00 Used Price: $39.00 Father Hunger  No matter what someone's father was like, chances are he or she longs for a better relationship with him. Robert McGee understands the impact of father hunger both from personal experience and from his extensive work as a Christian counselor. He offers practical insight into the types of fathers we have and our responses to them. He understands what happens when our trust is violated and we try various methods to escape the pain. The problem of father hunger affects not only our relationships with family and friends, it also deeply affects the way we think about God. With honesty and spiritual insight, McGee tackles this difficult issue in order to draw readers into a stronger and more confident relationship with their heavenly Father.Author: Robert S. McGee Paperback: 280 pages Company: Vine Books (1993-07) ISBN: 0892838183 List Price: $12.99 Amazon Price: $34.00 Used Price: $10.94 Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect: Foundations for a New National Strategy  Citing an estimated three million reports of suspected maltreatment, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect declared a national emergency in the field of child protection in 1990. The Board's efforts culminated in the landmark 1993 report\m-\«MDUL»Neighbors Helping Neighbor«MDNM»s\m-\a proposal for a new comprehensive, neighborhood-based child-centered, family-focused child protection system, which represents a significant shift in focus from "When is it justifiable to intervene coercively?" to "What can be done to prevent harm to children?" The editors of this comprehensive volume are the principal architects of the proposed prevention strategy. They have brought together leading experts on child maltreatment to address its social, cultural, and economic precursors, as well as effective prevention and treatment. Focusing on ways to strengthen neighborhoods, build connections among and within families, and bolster economic and social supports, contributors offer practical advice for the development and implementation of programs and policies to prevent harm to children. To create a society-wide safety net in which child protection becomes a part of everyday life, their work proposes an agenda for critical research and identifies concrete strategies for all those who come in contact with children. Such work served as the empirical foundation for the U.S. Advisory Board's new national strategy. Hardcover: 451 pages Company: The Guilford Press (1994-11-18) ISBN: 0898622654 List Price: $55.00 Amazon Price: $47.09 Used Price: $9.48 Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (7th Edition) (MyHelpingKit Series)  Author: Cynthia Crosson-Tower Paperback: 464 pages Company: Allyn & Bacon (2007-05-27) ISBN: 0205503268 List Price: $77.00 Amazon Price: $65.83 Used Price: $65.00 Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative  "An extraordinary book. Chilling, inspiring, and utterly convincing, it creates an ironclad case for the adoption solution." -Sylvia Ann Hewlett, coauthor of The War Against Parents "Bartholet sounds the alarm on the savage consequences the child welfare system has on so many children and challenges us to confront the reality that substance abuse . . . is the culprit in most cases of child abuse and neglect. Everyone who cares about our nation's most vulnerable children should read this book." -Joseph A. Califano, Jr., president, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University "Blood and race remain the over-riding factors in determining the future of suffering children. This should be required reading for those who look on adoption as the last resort." -Mary McGrory, Washington Post columnist "Bartholet is a passionate crusader on behalf of children, and brings to her subject vigorous, clear-headed prose and the moral authority of her professional dedication." -Ann-Janine Morey, Chicago Tribune "Bartholet issues a strong challenge to the child welfare system to facilitate adoption of children who have been abused and neglected.All people concerned about the healthy development of children should read Nobody's Children. I highly recommend it." -Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School "The way we treat abused and neglected children in this country remains a national scandal. Bartholet challenges the priority placed . . . on keeping battered or neglected children with their families or racial group, and makes a strong case for increased use of adoption." -Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (ret.), author of the Multiethnic Placement Act "A disturbing look at how the lives of 'America's modern-day orphans' are sacrificed for the often unrealistic goal of keeping troubled families together. . . . The author makes her case intelligently, fearlessly, and exhaustively." -Kirkus Reviews Elizabeth Bartholet is a professor at Harvard Law School. Her first book, Family Bonds: Adoption, Infertility, and the New World of Child Reproduction, was called "brilliant . . . an intelligent and passionate exploration of the legal, racial, and psychological issues" by The New York Times Book Review. The mother of three boys, two of them adopted from Peru, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Author: Elizabeth Bartholet Paperback: 324 pages Company: Beacon Press (2000-11-17) ISBN: 0807023191 List Price: $20.00 Amazon Price: $18.28 Used Price: $7.00 Rebuilding Attachments With Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect  Learn to build the trust you need to help children in crisis! Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect is a therapeutic guide to helping troubled children move beyond the traumatic experiences that haunt them. Author Dr. Richard Kagan, Director of Psychological Services for Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York, presents comprehensive information on how to understand—and surmount—the impact of loss, neglect, separation, and violence on children's development, how to discover and foster strengths in children and their families, and how to rebuild connections and hope for children who are at risk of harm to themselves and others. This unique book is designed to be used in tandem with Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children (Haworth), an innovative workbook that helps children develop the self-esteem they need to overcome the worries and fears of their past through a creative arts approach that fosters positive values and a sense of pride. Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children helps children move from negative or suppressed memories to a more positive perspective, not by denying hardships, but by drawing strength from the supportive people in their lives. Practitioners can use the book as a framework and detailed guide to assessment, engagement, development of service plans, and implementation of attachment and trauma therapy. The book is a comprehensive model for working to build the trust necessary before other trauma therapy approaches can be successfully initiated. Topics examined in Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children include: attachment theory and research Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children is a rich resource for practitioners, academics, parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, grandparents, and anyone working to show troubled children how to learn from the past, resolve problems in the present, and build a better future. Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention  This exciting new book offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. Using research evidence, this clear, compelling textbook answers the key questions any student or specialist in child welfare would ask. Author: David Howe Paperback: 320 pages Company: Palgrave Macmillan (2005-08-06) (2005-08-11) ISBN: 1403948267 List Price: $35.95 Amazon Price: $31.27 Used Price: $24.62 Child Abuse and Neglect: Multidisciplinary Approaches  This book offers a clear and concise summary of the current issues in the child abuse and neglect field. Examining the major theories used to explain child abuse and neglect, this book explores cultural diversity issues, definitions of abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. Also considered are the social and psychological factors related to abuse, treatment issues, describes prevention and policy issues, and explores various professional roles. For anyone interested in social work. Author: Mark A. Winton, Barbara A. Mara Paperback: 268 pages Company: Allyn & Bacon (2000-06-11) ISBN: 0205308775 List Price: $66.20 Amazon Price: $32.25 Used Price: $10.00 |