Introduction / Hannele Forsberg and Teppo Kröger -- Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families / Guðny Björk Eydal and Teppo Kröger -- A Nordic model in child welfare? / Helena Blomberg [and others] -- From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood / Hannele Forsberg and Aino Ritala-Koskinen -- Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare / Marjo Kuronen and Pia Lahtinen -- Family focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century / Sigrun Juliusdottir -- In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work / Reidun Follesø and Kate Mevik -- Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? / Inger Marii Tronvoll -- Listening to children's experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence / Margareta Hyden -- Now you see them -- now you don't: institutions in child protection policy / Tuija Eronen, Riitta Laakso and Tarja Pösö -- Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them / Keith Pringle
Summary
Drawing on contemporary research and debates from different Nordic countries, this book examines how social work and child welfare politics are produced and challenged as both global and local ideas and practices
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-200) and index
