Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically (Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series)
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The delivery of effective family support is a key global child welfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutes family support or what the best ways are to evaluate it.Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically offers a full review of the conceptual and operational problems involved in this complex and topical field.
Ilan Katz and John Pinkerton have brought together a team of experienced child care policy analysts and evaluators to present the current state of critical thinking alongside detailed international case studies. The chapters offer revealing glimpses into the nature of family support across the world, as well as an overview of the challenges facing both practitioners and researchers.
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The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) was founded in 1884 by the Reverend Benjamin Waugh and is today the leading charity in England specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. It is the only children's charity in the United Kingdom with statutory powers that enable it to take action to safeguard children at risk of abuse. Together with John Wiley the NSPCC have started a book series in child protection and policy with the aim of a practical application to research.Evaluating family support is the result of a review and discussion of support for families on a national basis and the evaluation of that support. Ilan Katz, the team leader of the British Children's Fund prevention team and John Pinkerton, the head of the School of Social Work at the Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, have together with 23 contributors looked at the need for international comparison in the evaluation of family support, the issues involved and studied the research available in countries like the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand, America, Australia and Sweden.
This book shows the international or global perspective of family support with service and policy subject to constant tension that oftentimes undermine finding solutions for the problems facing the modern family, like the promotion of day care in other to have parents on the workforce versus the need for parents to spend quality time with their children. There has been a trend to think about an open or complex systems approach, where biological and social systems are not driven by equilibrium but by complex and constant change. Developing family support systems should therefore be based on a model that uses an ecological approach, a transactional model of development, resilience perspective and social inclusion.
This book will be of value for policy makers and administrators responsible for servive and support of families.Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel, email: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment Comment
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