How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse?

by Dulmus; Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780789024633
• ISBN10: 0789024632
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Improve services for children and youth with new concepts, different perspectives, and up-to-date information! How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse? explores the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being. Experts in the fields of social work and child welfare provide a broad perspective on how to improve outcomes for children and adolescents who receive institutional services either directly or indirectly. This book contains innovative strategies for reducing the negative outlook for children and families in shelters, foster homes, and residential treatment centers. This book offers improvements for care services at such locations as: residential institutions state custody and foster homes schools youth development organizations urban public housing developments homeless shelters In How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children, you'll discover current case studies

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Catherine N. Dulmus
Karen M. Sowers
Emphasizing Caregiver Strengths to Avoid Out-of-Home Placement of Children with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances	5	(14)
John H. Pierpont
Benevolent Intervention or Oppression Perpetuated: Minority Overrepresentation in Children's Services	19	(20)
Kimberly D. Crane
Rodney A. Ellis
Developmental Outcomes of Vulnerable Youth in the Child Welfare System	39	(18)
Sunny Hyucksun Shin
Permanency Planning for HIV/AIDS Affected Children: Options for Care	57	(12)
Jenny Jones
The Relationship of Child Protection Service Caseworker Discipline-Specific Education and Definition of Sibling Abuse: An Institutional Hiring Impact Study	69	(14)
Frances Bernard Kominkiewicz
Institutions of Youth Development: The Significance of Supportive Staff-Youth Relationships	83	(18)
Dawn Anderson-Butcher
Scottye J. Cash
Susan Saltzburg
Theresa Midle
Debra Pace
Navigating the Concrete Jungle: African American Children and Adolescents in Urban Public Housing Developments	101	(28)
Stan L. Bowie
A Community-Based Multiple Family Group Intervention for Sheltered Families: Impact of the Weekend Retreat	129	(18)
Timothy L. Davey
Melissa L. Abell
Using Family-Oriented Treatment to Improve Placement Outcomes for Children and Youth in Residential Treatment	147	(18)
John H. Pierpont
Kaye McGinty
How School Environments Contribute to Violent Behavior in Youth	165	(14)
Carolyn Hilarski
Student-Teacher Relationships: An Overlooked Factor in School Dropout	179	(16)
Kathryn S. Davis
David R. Dupper
Life Plans: A Critical Component in the Rehabilitation of Post-Institutionalized Romanian Youth	195	(16)
Debra Schell-Frank
Tiberius Rotaru
Sandra L. Iverson
Kathryn N. Dole
Index	211