Social work and child welfare politics [electronic resource] : through Nordic lenses / edited by Hannele Forsberg and Teppo Kroger.

Contributor(s): Forsberg, Hannele | Kroger, Teppo | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2010Description: vii, 206 pSubject(s): Child welfare -- Scandinavia | Family social work -- ScandinaviaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.70948 LOC classification: HV784 | .S63 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction / Hannele Forsberg and Teppo Kroger -- Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families / Guny Bjork Eydal and Teppo Kroger -- A Nordic model in child welfare? / Helena Blomberg ... [et al.] -- From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood / Hannele Forsberg and Aino Ritala-Koskinen -- Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare / Marjo Kuronen and Pia Lahtinen -- Family focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century / Sigrun Juliusdottir -- In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work / Reidun Folles and Kate Mevik -- Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? / Inger Marii Tronvoll -- Listening to children's experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence / Margareta Hyden -- Now you see them - now you don't: institutions in child protection policy / Tuija Eronen, Riitta Laakso and Tarja Poso -- Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them / Keith Pringle.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-200) and index.

Introduction / Hannele Forsberg and Teppo Kroger -- Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families / Guny Bjork Eydal and Teppo Kroger -- A Nordic model in child welfare? / Helena Blomberg ... [et al.] -- From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood / Hannele Forsberg and Aino Ritala-Koskinen -- Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare / Marjo Kuronen and Pia Lahtinen -- Family focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century / Sigrun Juliusdottir -- In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work / Reidun Folles and Kate Mevik -- Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? / Inger Marii Tronvoll -- Listening to children's experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence / Margareta Hyden -- Now you see them - now you don't: institutions in child protection policy / Tuija Eronen, Riitta Laakso and Tarja Poso -- Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them / Keith Pringle.

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