Beyond Common Sense

Name: Beyond Common Sense | Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform
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Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform

Fred Wulczyn Richard P. Barth Ying-Ying T. Yuan Brenda Jones Harden John Landsverk(Author)

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1st Edition

Published on 30. June 2005

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242 pages

978-0-202-30735-0 (ISBN)

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Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is a primary focus of the book. Because policymakers have to make decisions that allocate resources, a basic understanding of incidence in the public health tradition is important, as is evidence that speaks to the question of what works clinically. The rest of the book addresses the evidence. Chapter 2 integrates bio-ecological and public health perspectives to give the evidence base coherence. Chapters 3 and 4 combine evidence from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, and the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to offer an unprecedented profile of children as they enter the child welfare system. Chapters 5 and 6 address the broad question of what works. A concluding chapter focuses on policy and future directions, suggesting that children starting out, children starting school, and children starting adolescence are high-risk populations for which explicit strategies have to be formed. This timely volume offers useful insights into the child welfare system and will be of particular interest to policymakers, academics with an interest in Child Welfare Policy, Social Work educators, and Child Advocates.

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"Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad commonsense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mmandate for it is not clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of results established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is the primary focus this book."--Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and the Environment

"No single book can solve the riddle of child welfare services, but this book takes the discourse to the next level. It contains the musings of some of the field's best thinkers and reminds us of what we do not know. Beyond Common Sense represents the next stage in the evolution of child welfare services. The authors challenge the field to improve the lives of children and families by promoting the integration of developmental and evidentiary considerations into the very fabric of services provision. They offer a broad set of prevention and treatment options with varying levels of treatment effectiveness. They make timely and worthwhile policy suggestions. Indeed, the complicated world of child protective services, where child safety must be balanced with consideration of parental rights, requires moving Beyond Common Sense."--Aron Shlonsky, Social Service Review

"Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad commonsense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mmandate for it is not clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of results established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is the primary focus this book."--"Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and the Environment" --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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