Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests?Georgetown University Press, 2 de ago. de 2000 - 168 páginas In this new volume, two distinguished professors of social work debate the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children. Arguing the merits of keeping families together whenever possible, Ruth G. McRoy examines the background, theory, and effectiveness of family preservation programs. She provides practical recommendations and pays particular attention to the concerns of African American children. Claiming that there is insufficient evidence that family preservation actually works, Howard Altstein counters that children from truly dysfunctional families should be given the chance for stable lives through adoption rather than left in limbo. |
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... goal in satisfying both the child's and the parents ' best interests . Professor Howard Altstein strongly disagrees . His review of empirical studies provides two basic results . First , that families whose behavior originally ...
... goal , Congress passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 ( PL 105-89 ) , which calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to set annual adoption targets for each state , with states receiving per - child bonuses for ...
... goal of reunification . These intensive family preserva- tion services are provided in the home ( Savage 1998 ) . Family preservation services are generally characterized as being brief and concentrated and most often delivered directly ...
... goal of ecologically based programs is to assess the resource deficits of families and to link them with available resources in their extended family , neighborhood , and community so as to enhance the functioning of their social ...
... goals are tertiary prevention , prevention of out - of - home placement , or reunification of children with families from which they have been removed . The three models are described below . Crisis Intervention Model . This model is ...
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Adoption Challenges | 41 |
Family Preservation in the New Millennium | 50 |
PART TWO | 57 |
Family Preservation What Does the Research Say? | 59 |
Kinship Care | 79 |
Transracial Adoption | 97 |
Responses | 113 |
Commentary | 115 |
Response to McRoy | 121 |
Response to Altstein | 127 |
Bibliography | 133 |
Index | 151 |
Impact on Child Welfare of the Multiethnic Placement and Adoption and Safe Families Acts | 87 |