Child Welfare and Child Well-Being

Mary Bruce Webb, PhD, is Director, Division of Child and Family Development, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Kathryn L. Dowd, PhD, is Senior Director, Centers for Survey Research, Research Triangle Institute.Brenda Jones Harden, PhD, is Associate Professor, Institute for Child Study, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland.John Landsverk, PhD, is Director, Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego.Mark Testa, PhD, is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Children and Family Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• PART I. MOVING TOWARD A DEVELOPMENTAL FRAMEWORK IN CHILD WELFARE; PART II. CHILD WELFARE, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND CHILD WELL-BEING; MARK TESTA, CHRISTINA M. BRUHN, AND JESSE HELTON; PART III. THE SURVEY STUDY DESIGN AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; SARAH MCCUE HORWITZ, MICHAEL S. HURLBURT, AND JINJIN ZHANG

"Children in the U.S. Child Welfare System (CWS) are the source of great concern, but much of that concern to date has been based on anecdotal reports of individuals who have come in contact with the CWS and sensationalized accounts in the media. Finally, this volume provides a strong foundation of data that in some instances validates pre-existing understanding and in other cases sheds new light on challenges and opportunities. It contains a wealth of timelyand important information and is a must-have for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners involved with the CWS." --Philip A. Fisher, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon and SeniorResearch Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center"Characterized by choice of salient issues, thoughtful and rigorous analyses, and lucid writing, Child Welfare and Child Well-Being offers further insights from that seminal study of children who encounter the child welfare system in the United States, the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). Its editors and authors are acknowledged experts in the field, and collectively present findings on the longitudinal sequelae of maltreatment, theireffects on child development and well-being, approaches to their reduction, and their implications for mental health services research. This book is a very valuable addition to the body of studiesconducted on NSCAW, and serves the needs of all scholars, clinicians, and policymakers concerned with mitigating the effects of maltreatment upon vulnerable children." --Ramesh Raghavan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis