Child and family advocacy : bridging the gaps between research, practice, and policy

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Label

Child and family advocacy : bridging the gaps between research, practice, and policy

Title remainder

bridging the gaps between research, practice, and policy

Statement of responsibility

Anne McDonald Culp, editor

Contributor

• Culp, Anne McDonald

Subject

• Child Advocacy
• Child and School Psychology.
• Child psychology
• Child psychology
• Developmental psychology.
• Electronic books
• Familienökonomie
• Family -- psychology
• Family social work
• Family social work
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
• Psychology, Child
• Psychology.
• Public health.
• Social Work
• Social advocacy
• Social advocacy
• Social policy.
• Social work with children
• Social work with children
• Social work.
• Sozialarbeit

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience--doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice for the larger community. With this duty in clear sight, the contributors to Child and Family Advocacy assert that advocacy is neither a dying art nor a lost cause but a vital platform for improving children's lives beyond the scope of clinical practice. This uniquely practical reference builds an ethical foundation that defines advocacy as a professional competency, and identifies skills that clinicians and researchers can use in advocating at the local, state, and federal levels. Models of the advocacy process coupled with first-person narratives demonstrate how professionals across disciplines can lobby for change. Among the topics discussed: Promoting children's mental health: collaboration and public understanding. Health reform as a bridge to health equity. Preventing child maltreatment: early intervention and public education Changing juvenile justice practice and policy. A multi-level framework for local policy development and implementation. When evidence and values collide: preventing sexually transmitted infections. Lessons from the legislative history of federal special education law. Child and Family Advocacy is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, family studies, public health, developmental psychology, social work, and social policy

Member of

• Issues in clinical child psychology

Cataloging source

GW5XE

Dewey number

362.7

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

HV41

LC item number

.C45 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

HV 41

Series statement

Issues in clinical child psychology,