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Child welfare in the legal setting a critical and interpretive perspective /

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Main Author: O'Brien, Thomas M.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Haworth Press, c2004.
Subjects:
Children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Social work with children > Law and legislation > United States.
Child welfare workers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • The institutional context of child welfare
  • Governance, legitimacy, and trust
  • Multiple dimensions of child welfare governance
  • The organizational context of practice
  • The legal system as host setting : context and history
  • Images and realities of the legal system : metaphor, myths, and stereotypes
  • The courts
  • The concentric systems view of child welfare
  • The rationalization of child welfare intervention
  • Life in narrative and drama : meaning, self, and identity
  • Social intervention as ritualized action
  • Ethics, values, and integrity
  • Conclusion.

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