Child Welfare Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field

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 providesstudents 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.

Part I. A Social Work Introduction to Child Welfare 1. What Is Child Welfare? 2. History of Child Welfare 3. Child Welfare Policy: 1960 to Present 4. Using Theory to Understand Child Maltreatment Part II. Defining Child Maltreatment 5. Neglect 6. Physical Abuse 7. Psychological Abuse 8. Sexual Abuse Part III. Response to Child Maltreatment 9. The Child Protection Process 10. Professional Considerations 11. Mandated Reporting 12. Prevention and Preservation 13. Substitute Care 14. Adoption 15. Aging Out 16. Ecological Perspective of Child Welfare

Kathryn Krase, Associate Professor of Social Work in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, is an expert in the Mandated Reporting of Suspected Child Maltreatment, with many significant publications and presentations on the topic. As a lawyer, Dr. Krase represented children in Family Court for the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Tobi DeLong Hamilton, Assistant Professor and MSW Program Director in the Department of Social Work at Brandman University, has worked in the social work field for 20 years and has experience in child welfare, adoptions, medical, and psychiatric social work. She worked in private practice as a psychotherapist specializing in family and childhood problems prior to moving into higher education full time. While in private practice, she maintained a connection to public child welfare by evaluating, writing reports, and testifying as an expert witness for children in foster care.