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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... theories guiding the practice . Evidence of effectiveness of family preservation and the significance of kinship care as a form of family preservation are discussed in chapter 3. The fourth chapter delineates policies and practices that ...
... theories on which this practice is based . ENDNOTE 1. Adoption agencies had been established in the early part of the century primarily under private nonprofit agency auspices and served mostly white childless couples . Since black ...
... theories , attachment and functional ( Grigsby 1993 ) , have also been noted to contrib- ute significantly to the principles of family preservation services . All six theories will be discussed in this section . Crisis Intervention Theory ...
Howard Altstein, Ruth G. McRoy. Crisis Intervention Theory . Family preservation services are crisis- oriented , the crisis being the imminent removal of the child . According to the theory , a crisis occurs when a hazardous event has ...
... Theory . According to this theory ( Bowlby 1969 and 1980 ; Ainsworth 1985 ) , early relationships between child and caretaker influence the child's subsequent relationships . Child welfare service providers must also consider ...
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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 |