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Introduction | |
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Contributors | |
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Family-Centered Services: A Typology, Brief History, and Overview of Current Program Implementation and Evaluation Challenges | |
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A Program Typology of Family-Centered Services | |
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History of Family-Centered Services | |
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Program Limitations and Policy Pitfalls | |
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Selected Program Implementation Challenges in Family-Centered Services | |
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Values and Ethics for Family-Centered Practice | |
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Theoretical Foundation | |
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The Impact of Values in Practice | |
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Evolution of Values in Family-Centered Services | |
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Historical Backdrop | |
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Values That Direct Family-Centered Services | |
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Family Plays an Essential Role in Child Development | |
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The Family Is Part of a System | |
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Clients Are Colleagues | |
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Strengths Are to Be Emphasized | |
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Home Is the Primary Service Setting | |
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The Family's Needs Determine Services | |
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The Family and Workers Operate in the Community | |
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Cultural Competency in Providing Family-Centered Services | |
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History of Culturally Competent Practice | |
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Culturally Competent Social Work and Family-Centered Practice | |
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Assessing Family-Centered Services for Ethnic Families | |
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Planning Culturally Competent Family-Centered Services | |
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Cultural Values as Guideposts to Service Development | |
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A Conceptual Framework for Family-Centered Services | |
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Family Systems Theory | |
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Ecological Theory | |
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Social Work Models | |
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Strength-Based Perspective | |
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Empowerment Theory | |
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A Conceptual Framework: Integration of Theories | |
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Family-Centered Assessment and Goal Setting | |
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Expanded Roles of Family Members as Experts on Their History and Challenges | |
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Use of Self in Relationship to Family-Centered Practice Principles | |
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Maintaining a Nonjudgmental Stance | |
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Preparing for Family-Centered Assessment | |
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Home Observation | |
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Ethical Considerations of Working in the Family's Home | |
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Family-Centered Assessment Process | |
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Connecting Family Assessment to Goal-Setting Activities | |
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Collaborative Team Building to Support Family Assessment and Goal Setting | |
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Well-Being and Family-Centered Services: The Value of the Developmental Assets Framework | |
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Some Implications and Effects of Attending to Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being for Child and Family Services | |
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Family-Centered Reforms and Child and Family Services | |
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The Empirical Basis for the Developmental Assets Framework | |
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The Basis for Defining Thriving Outcomes | |
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Measurement of the Developmental Assets and Thriving Indicators | |
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Findings Related to the Developmental Assets Framework and Thriving Indicators | |
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Adapting the Developmental Assets Framework to Children | |
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The Importance of Applying the Developmental Assets Framework to Family-Centered Services | |
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Interventions: Hard and Soft Services | |
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Definitional Issues | |
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The Home-Based Worker's Intervention Task | |
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Categories of Home-Based Interventions | |
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Case Examples | |
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Future Issues | |
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Formal and Informal Kinship Care: Supporting the Whole Family | |
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Formal and Informal Support | |
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Kinship Family Care | |
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Formal Kinship Care | |
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Policy Issues | |
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Family Group Conferencing: An "Extended Family" Process to Safeguard Children and Strengthen Family Well-Being | |
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Historical Roots in New Zealand | |
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New Zealand's Legislative Precedence | |
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Evolution of Family Group Conferencing | |
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The Practice of Family Group Conferencing | |
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Targeting the Right Families for Family-Centered Services: Current Dilemmas and Future Directions | |
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The Evolution of Targeting Practices in Family-Centered Services | |
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Future Direction of Targeting Practices in Family-Centered Services | |
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Putting the Targeting Criteria Into Action | |
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Walking Our Talk in the Neighborhoods: Going Beyond Lip Service in Service Delivery Improvement | |
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Reasons We Need New Approaches to Human Services Delivery | |
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Reasons for Forming Professional/Natural Helper Partnerships | |
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Reasons We Need Natural Helpers | |
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Reasons We Need Professionals | |
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Challenges in Developing and Maintaining Professional/Natural Helper Partnerships | |
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One Example of a Professional/Natural Helper Partnership | |
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A Few of the Unanswered Questions | |
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Evaluation in a Dynamic Environment: Assessing Change When Nothing Is Constant | |
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Historical Development in the Evaluation of Family-Centered Services | |
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Current Applications: Methods and Meanings | |
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The Future in Evaluation of Family-Based Services--The Next Steps | |
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Multisystemic Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice | |
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Theoretical Underpinnings | |
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Clinical Features | |
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Outcome Studies | |
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Current and Future Directions | |
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Reclaiming a Family-Centered Services Reform Agenda | |
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The Waning of the Family-Centered Services Reform Movement | |
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Revitalizing the Family-Centered Services Reform Movement | |
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Shaping the Future of Family-Centered Services: Competition or Collaboration? | |
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Threats from Without: Privatization and Managed Care | |
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Threats from Within | |
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Countervailing Forces | |
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The Future of Family-Centered Services | |