Child protection; using research to improve policy and practice

Reference & Research Book News, Nov, 2007

Child protection; using research to improve policy and practice.

Ed. by Ron Haskins et al.

Brookings Institution Press

2007

268 pages

$22.95

Paperback

HV741

The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect, and of the public programs that aim to protect them. This book reports on the results of the NSCAW, interprets the findings, and places them in a broader policy context. It also suggests new ways of designing and implementing future programs. Issues addressed include intimate partner violence in the child welfare system, improving parent training, Medicaid and mental health care, kinship care and nonkinship foster care, and maltreatment recurrence among children remaining at home. Haskins is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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