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Title Helping in child protective services : a competency-based casework handbook / edited by Charmaine Brittain and Deborah Esquibel Hunt
Edition 2nd ed
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 556 pages) : illustrations
Contents The CPS experience: working with a family from beginning to end -- The history of child protective services -- The casework process -- Key partners in protecting children and supporting families -- Interviewing children and families -- Intake and investigation: initial stages of the CPS process -- Assessment -- Child development -- The medical evaluation of abuse and neglect -- Intervention with families -- The legal framework for child protective services -- Accountability in child protective services
Summary This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators. This invaluable resource provides CPS workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to assist vulnerable families, covering such key issues as assessment, decision making, intervention, child development, medical evaluation, accountability, and the legal framework of culturally responsive practice. This handbook equips CPS professionals and students to follow
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Child welfare -- United States
Maternal and infant welfare -- United States
Child welfare workers -- United States
Social work with children -- United States
Family social work -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
Child welfare
Child welfare workers
Family social work
Maternal and infant welfare
Social work with children
United States
États-Unis.
Form Electronic book
Author Brittain, Charmaine
Hunt, Deborah Esquibel
LC no. 2003004586
ISBN 9780198036623
0198036620
1423735382
9781423735380
0195303784
9780195303780
9786610503254
6610503257