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Program Evaluation for Social Workers
An eminently approachable and practical introduction to case- and program-level evaluation techniques.
Handbook of Professional Youth Mentoring
This book examines professional youth mentoring, which is marked by enduring relationships throughout childhood and adolescence between youth and their adult mentors who are embedded within a formal program. It describes the ways in which these mentors – full-time, paid professionals – specialize in helping youth to build the resilience, skills, and hope that prepares them for prosocial success during emerging adulthood and beyond. The book explores the extensive initial and continuing education and skills training that professional youth mentors receive as well as ongoing supervision and support to bolster their effectiveness with children, their families, and systems (e.g., schools, he...
The Healthy Families America Initiative
Child abuse and neglect are social and public health problems that need to be addressed by strong policies and dynamic initiatives that show quantifiable results. The Healthy Families America® Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory and Practice is the most up-to-date examination of the home visitation program aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect. This contemporary and comprehensive summary of research and practice contains five empirical articles at the national, state, and multi-state levels, scholarly reviews, insights into Healthy Families America® (HFA) challenges and successes, and commentaries about the next steps for HFA. This detailed study of HFA is a roadmap for preventi...
Rights of the Child, Mothers and Sentencing
This book draws international attention to the autonomy of the child accompanying incarcerated mothers, and those they leave behind in the community, despite being dependent on the convicted caregiver. Adopting a child rights perspective, the study explores how courts could go about sentencing mothers of young children for the commission of criminal offences, whilst protecting the rights of the child as envisaged under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Drawing on the author’s experience as a sentencer in the Kenyan court and with reference to domestic, regional and international law, the book argues that children’s rights are presently left in abeyance whe...
Social Work Research and Evaluation
This book is the longest standing and most widely adopted text in the field of social work research and evaluation. Since the first edition in 1981, it has been designed to provide beginning social work students the basic methodological foundation they need in order to successfully complete more advanced research courses that focus on single-system designs or program evaluations. Its content is explained in extraordinarily clear everyday language which is then illustrated with social work examples that social work students not only can understand, but appreciate as well. Many of the examples concern women and minorities, and special emphasis is given to the application of research methods to...
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Finding Families, Finding Ourselves
"In Finding Families, Finding Ourselves historian Veronica Strong-Boag examines the realities behind idealized pictures of adoptive families rescuing needy children, or adoptees fitting seamlessly into new families. The first comprehensive examination of the history of adoption in Canada, Finding Families, Finding Ourselves draws on a broad range of sources - from legal cases, sociological studies, and government policies to fiction and first-hand accounts." "Strong-Boag argues that adoption, far from being a marginal aspect of Canadian history, goes to the heart of who we are as individuals and as a national community. With its complicated dance of obligations and rights, insiders and outsiders, acceptance and rejection, adoption reflects the ways in which we - as families and as communities - have consciously and unconsciously remade ourselves in the course of creating our future."--BOOK JACKET.
The World of Foster Care
An international reference book which describes the role and structure of foster family care systems in 30 countries. Endorsed by the International Foster Care Organization (IFCO), an easily accessible, compact, comprehensive description of foster family care as it operates in different countries
Research for Effective Social Work Practice
In this book and companion website you will find: ■ A practice-oriented description of qualitative and quantitative research methods that engages rather than intimidates students ■ Illustrations of real-life research and evaluation from different levels of social work practice, encompassing many populations ■ Attention to the ethics and politics of research at each phase of the process, from the identification of an issue through reporting findings ■ Exercises that provide hands-on learning opportunities in research and evaluation ■ A historical, strengths-based perspective on research and evaluation in social work that teaches empowerment and professionalism ■ Six in-depth, interactive, easy-to-access cases, that include data in SPSS and Excel ■ A wealth of instructor-only resources available at www.routledgesw.com/research, including sample syllabi, links, multiple-choice, and free-response test items all linked to current EPAS standards, and PowerPoint presentations.
