Fred Wulczyn is a research fellow at Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Richard Barth is the Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina. Ying-Ying T. Yuan is senior vice president at Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc. Brenda Jones Harden is associate professor at the Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland. John Landsverk is director of the NIMH-funded Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at Children's Hospital, San Diego.

• List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsPart 1 Origins and PurposeIntroduction to Part 11. Beyond Common Sense to Evidence-Based Policymaking2. Well-Being: Bio-Ecological, Life Course,and Public Health PerspectivesPart 2 The Epidemiology of Maltreatment andFoster Care PlacementIntroduction to Part 23. The Epidemiology of Reported Child Maltreatment4. Placement in Foster CarePart 3 Child Welfare Services in a Developmental ContextIntroduction to Part 35. Altering the Early Life Course of Children inChild Welfare: Evidence-Based Interventions for Infants,Toddlers, and Preschoolers6. Evidence-Based Mental Health Interventionsfor Children in Child Welfare7. Beyond Common Sense: Future Directions forChild Welfare PolicyReferencesIndex

"Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad commonsense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mmandate for it is not clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of results established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is the primary focus this book."--Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and the Environment"No single book can solve the riddle of child welfare services, but this book takes the discourse to the next level. It contains the musings of some of the field's best thinkers and reminds us of what we do not know. Beyond Common Sense represents the next stage in the evolution of child welfare services. The authors challenge the field to improve the lives of children and families by promoting the integration of developmental and evidentiary considerations into the very fabric of services provision. They offer a broad set of prevention and treatment options with varying levels of treatment effectiveness. They make timely and worthwhile policy suggestions. Indeed, the complicated world of child protective services, where child safety must be balanced with consideration of parental rights, requires moving Beyond Common Sense."--Aron Shlonsky, Social Service Review"Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad commonsense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mmandate for it is not clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of results established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is the primary focus this book."--"Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and the Environment" --This text refers to the hardcover edition.