Child welfare : preparing social workers for practice in the field / Kathryn Krase, Tobi DeLong Hamilton.

Includes index

A social work introduction to child welfare -- Defining child maltreatment -- Response to child maltreatment

"Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field is a comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. This textbook provides a single source for all material necessary to providing a contextual child welfare course. As well as combining history, theory and practice, the authors integrate different practice perspectives to teach social workers how to engage children and families at the micro, mezzo and macro levels. Covering both broad issues such as x, child welfare, child maltreatment and responses to child maltreatment, and current issues in social care including mandated reporting and evidence-base policy prevention and preservation, the material is designed to meet the needs of social work students entering the child welfare workforce. Child Welfare will provide students in social work courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level with a single source for all material necessary to successfully navigate their studies and career"-- Provided by publisher.

English