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The Tender Years: Toward Developmentally Sensitive Child Welfare Services for Very Young Children

Jill Duerr Berrick, Barbara Needell, Richard P. Barth, and Melissa Jonson-Reid

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780195114539

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195114539.001.0001

Public Child Welfare Practice

Chapter:
(p. 125 ) 8 Public Child Welfare Practice
Source:
The Tender Years
Author(s):

Jill Duerr Berrick

Barbara Needell

Richard P. Barth

Melissa Jonson-Reid

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195114539.003.0008

This chapter focuses on the practice of child welfare workers. Topics covered include their assessment of the risk of child abuse and neglect, permanency planning, fast-adopt programs, intensive attempts to reunite infants who were removed at birth with their biological parents, kinship care, and legal guardianship. A summary of key findings and recommendations regarding public child welfare practice is presented at the end of the chapter.

Keywords:   child welfare workers, social workers, social work practice, child abuse, fast-adopt programs, permanency planning

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