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Amazon.com: Child Protective Services in Amazon.com Child Protective Services Specialist (Career Examination Series)  Author: Jack Rudman Plastic Comb: 220 pages Company: National Learning Corp (2005-01-01) ISBN: 0837332958 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $19.52 Used Price: $22.89 Treating Families and Children in the Child Protective System: Strategies for Systemic Advocacy and Family Healing (Family Therapy and Counseling, 4)  Treating Families and Children in the Child Protective System is a journey through the praxis and culture of CPS, mapped by therapists working with the clients it is intended to serve. Using theory, strategies and compelling case studies, the author argues that child abuse and neglect are ultimate forms of family injustice and that no intervention can succeed if it does not restore justice to the relationship between victims and offenders. Instead, CPS often supplants the natural family with foster care, thus avoiding these issues and in many cases creating an entirely new level of injustice for child and family. While at times helpful, family preservation strategies typically focus on case management or solution focused cures, failing to address the deeply engrained family injustice expressed in the abuse of children. The author offers neither a simple critique of the system and exoneration of families, nor a disparaging attack on those who mistreat their young. Instead he proposes that critically optimistic therapists, evaluators, court officers and caseworkers approach each case as family-friends with powerful tools to make real and lasting change thereby directing the overwhelming power of the system into a force for the restoration of family justice.Author: Wes Crenshaw Hardcover: 304 pages Company: Routledge (2004-03-25) ISBN: 0415948703 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $36.82 Used Price: $35.99 Protecting Children From Child Protective Services  Author: Alan L. Schwartz Paperback: 138 pages Company: Authorhouse (2004-04-30) ISBN: 1418437034 List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: Building Solutions in Child Protective Services  An empowering approach to protecting children. How does one change the attitudes and practices of a statewide bureaucracy notorious for inefficiency, staff turnover, and a culture of despair? First, take an outsider to the system, Insoo Berg, with a vision and a solution-focused model. Add an insider, Susan Kelly, who understands the system. Spend many hours with CPS workers in the field, helping them make the shift to a partnership model that emphasizes strengths and solutions. Envision systemwide change. Celebrate small successes on the way to building family self-sufficiency and integrity. This recipe, described here in detail, can be replicated wholly or partially by any CPS agency. Author: Insoo Kim Berg, Susan Kelly Hardcover: 313 pages Company: W. W. Norton & Company (2000-09) ISBN: 039370310X List Price: $32.00 Amazon Price: $25.59 Used Price: $18.95 Somebody Hear Me Crying: Youth in Protective Services (Youth With Special Needs)  Author: Joyce Libal Library Binding: 128 pages Company: Mason Crest Publishers (2004-04) ISBN: 1590847393 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $22.99 Used Price: $10.60 Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know  For everyone responsible for the well being of children, this book explains one of the hardest to detect threats to their safety. Female sex offenders have victimized an estimated two to three million people in the United States. As a society we find it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse. The result is that, each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are not protected, not believed, and not treated for the trauma associated with the abuse. Through her detailed analysis of the currently available literature and her own research, Dr. Hislop describes what is known about female sex offenders: identification of abusers, estimates of the number of abusers and victims, the methods of abuse, the types of trauma seen among their victims, and what is known about the developmental histories of female sex offenders. She also provides therapists with directions for treatment and prioritized treatment goals, including exploring the victimization and patterns of offending, the relationship between the offender's own victimization and her offending, precursors to offending, and methods to stop offending. Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook  This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators. This invaluable resource provides CPS workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to assist vulnerable families, covering such key issues as assessment, decision making, intervention, child development, medical evaluation, accountability, and the legal framework of culturally responsive practice. This handbook equips CPS professionals and students to follow the casework process from intake through case closure with step-by-step instructions and examples. Chapters cover child development, key developmental milestones, and the importance of intervention; medical evaluation of child abuse and neglect; how to structure interviews and phrase questions to obtain information from families and guide the casework process; and the importance of accountable practice to families, their agencies, and the public. This latest edition of Helping in Child Protective Services compiles the most up-to-date research and practice information to help professionals provide the highest quality and most innovative services to children and families. Author: American Humane Association Paperback: 576 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2004-02-12) ISBN: 0195161904 List Price: $37.50 Amazon Price: $29.87 Used Price: $29.90 Adolescents and risk: Behaviors, functions and protective factors  The volume provides a substantial contribution to the understanding of adolescent risk behavior, informative and useful for both scientists and practitioners. The chapters deal with each of the key risk behaviors that are of concern at this developmental stage: tobacco smoking, alcohol use, marijuana and other drugs use, precocious and unprotected sexual behavior, eating disorders, risky behavior, risky driving, deviant and antisocial behavior. The book combines theoretical analysis and the findings of a wide research project, where the multiple contexts in the ecology of daily adolescent life have been considered. The data are based on large normative samples and the presentation of findings is very accessible, relying throughout on graphic representation rather than statistical tables. The book describes the different risk behaviors, shows the linkages between them, and explains the functions served by the various risk behaviors or the meanings they may have for the adolescent. It examines how they vary with age, sex, and other demographic characteristics, and demonstrates the influential role the theoretical risk factors and protective factors play in adolescent risk behavior involvement. The research findings not only strengthen the theory, but serve as an important guide to the design of intervention efforts to prevent or reduce adolescent involvement in risk behavior. The authors emphasize the need to strengthen protective factors that can promote positive development, and the need to provide opportunities for behaviors that can serve the same purposes as risk behaviors do, but without compromising health and development. This is the key challenge for all western contemporary societies. Author: Silvia Bonino, Elena Cattelino, Silvia Ciairano Hardcover: 371 pages Company: Springer (2005-09-19) ISBN: 8847002907 List Price: $115.00 Amazon Price: $52.05 Used Price: $67.98 An Unlit Path  Author: Deborah, L Hannah Hardcover: 272 pages Company: Xulon Press (2006-10-06) ISBN: 1600344852 List Price: $25.99 Amazon Price: $17.29 Used Price: $18.00 Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers (Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series) Author: Diane DePanfilis and Marsha K. Salus
Paperback: Company: U.S Department of Human services (2003) List Price: Amazon Price: Used Price: $89.48 |