Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child
Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice
(Sprache: Englisch)
This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and...
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This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes.Topics featured in this brief include:
- Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care.
- The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care.
- The regulation and quality of fosterhomes.
- Support for youth aging out of the foster care system.
- Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system.
Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child “
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Foster Care.- Chapter 2. Current Use of the "Best Interests of the Child" Standard in Foster Care Policy and Practice.- Chapter 3. Foster Care as a Problem and a Solution.- Chapter 4. Reforming the Foster Care System: Legislative and Judicial Efforts.- Chapter 5. Reorienting the Foster Care System toward Children's Best Interests.
Autoren-Porträt von Sarah A. Font, Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Sarah A. Font, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and is a faculty member of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. Her research focuses on how the child protective services and foster care systems work to further or undermine child well-being. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Elizabeth T. Gershoff , Ph.D., is a Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences and is Associate Director of the Population Research Center, both at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published extensively on the topic of physical punishment and is an internationally recognized expert on the effects that physical punishment by parents or by school personnel has on children. She earned her Ph.D. in Child Development from the University of Texas at Austin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Sarah A. Font , Elizabeth T. Gershoff
- 2020, 1st ed. 2020, XIX, 103 Seiten, 3 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 15,9 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030411451
- ISBN-13: 9783030411459
Sprache:
Englisch
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