Residential care of children : comparative perspectives

Residential care of children : comparative perspectives / edited by Mark E. Courtney, Dorota Iwaniec.

This work fills major gaps in knowledge about residential care of children and is sure to inform ongoing debates within and between nations about the appropriate use of such institutions. It examines factors that have contributed to the observed pattern of development of residential care of children...

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Other Authors: Courtney, Mark E., Iwaniec, Dorota
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Children > Institutional care > Case studies.
Children > Institutional care > Cross-cultural studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Children > Institutional care
Case studies
Cross-cultural studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mark E. Courtney and Dorota Iwaniec
  • Residential care in Ireland / Robbie Gilligan
  • Residential care in Great Britain and Northern Ireland : perspectives from the United Kingdom / Roger Bullock and Dominic McSherry
  • Swedish residential care in the landscape of out-of-home care / Marie Sallnäs
  • Residential care for children in Romania : a model for child protection reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Ovidiu Gavrilovici
  • Residential care for children "at risk" in Israel : current situation and future challenges / Talal Dolev, Dalia Ben Rabi, and Tamar Zemach-Marom
  • Residential care for children in Botswana : the past, the present, and the future / Tapologo Maundeni
  • Residential care in South Africa : changing the perspective from social welfare to social development / Brian Stout
  • Residential care in Korea : past, present, and future / Bong Joo Lee
  • Residential programs for children and young people : their current status and use in Australia / Frank Ainsworth and Patricia Hansen
  • Children and youth in institutional care in Brazil : historical perspectives and current overview / Irene Rizzini and Irma Rizzini
  • Residential care in the United States of America : past, present, and future / Mark E. Courtney and Darcy Hughes-Heuring
  • Looking backward to see forward clearly : a cross-national perspective on residential care / Mark E. Courtney, Talal Dolev, and Robbie Gilligan.

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