Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Gary Cameron is the Lyle S. Hallman Chair of Child and Family Welfare at the Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University. His current program of research focuses on the lives of families involved in child welfare and children's mental health services, international comparisons of systems of child and family welfare, and systems of care for children and families involved in residential mental health placements.Nick Coady has been with the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1994. His teaching and research interests focus on the importance of relationship and other common factors in social work practice. Recent publications include a co-edited textbook on theories for clinical social work and a journal site on good helping relationships in child welfare.Gerald R. Adams is a professor of family relations and human development at the University of Guelph. He is interested in the study of adolescence to adulthood, and identity development during childhood and adolescence. Recent books include the Blackwell Handbook on Adolescence and the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment.

• Table of Contents for Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams Finding a Fit: Family Realities and Service Responses | Gary Cameron Positive Possibilities for Child and Family Welfare: Options for Expanding the Anglo-American Child Protection Paradigm | Gary Cameron, Nancy Freymond, Denise Cornfield, and Sally Palmer Mothers and Child Welfare Child Placements | Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron Canadian Child Welfare: System Design Dimensions and Possibilities for Innovation | Gary Cameron and Nancy Freymond Using Intermediary Structures to Support Families: An International Comparison of Practice in Child Protection | Nancy Freymond Aboriginal Child Welfare | Deena Mandell, Joyce Clouston Carlson, Marshall Fine, and Cindy Blackstock Service Participant Voices in Child Welfare, Childrenâs Mental Health and Psychotherapy | Marshall Fine, Sally Palmer, and Nick Coady Placement Decisions and the Child Welfare Worker: Constructing Identities for Survival | Nancy Freymond Professional Burnout in Social Service Organizations: A Review of Theory, Research and Prevention | Carol Stalker and Cheryl Harvey Understanding and Preventing Employee Turnover | Cheryl Harvey and Carol Stalker Treatment of Choice or a Last Resort? A Review of Residential Mental Health Placements for Children and Adolescents | Karen M. Frensch, Gary Cameron, and Gerald R. Adams Fundamental Considerations for Child and Family Welfare | Nick Coady, Gary Cameron, and Gerald Adams

``The authors succeed in examining the field from a ... holistic angle. They emphasize famly living realities and service involvement by consistently calling on service providers to question and reform their perspectives of children, women, and families.... Strengths of this edited text include its foundation in current research, a focus on the provision of children's mental health services, comparison of international child welfare practices, and some attention to Aboriginal peoples. While some may consider the Canadian context too particular for wider applicability, the critiques are useful and vital for most jurisdictions, and the innovations that are offered could--and should--be considered anywhere the Anglo-American paradigm for child welfare holds sway.... Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.'' -- G. Bruyere, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology -- CHOICE, March 2008, 200803