Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation Implications for Policy and Practice

Name: Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation Implications for Policy and Practice
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ISBN: 9780231141406

ISBN-10: 0231141408

ISBN-13: 9780231141406

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lynn Nybell, Jeffrey Shook, Janet Finn

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Social workers today encounter competing claims concerning the needs and rights of children and youth while facing new dilemmas regarding policy and practice. They are urged to serve children's best interests where support for children's welfare and education becomes more precarious. They are asked to save "children at risk" but at the same time protect communities from "risky children," and they are encouraged to "leave no child behind" while implementing "zero tolerance" policies that exclude troubled children from school settings. This interdisciplinary group of contributors examines the theoretical, political, and practical aspects of working with youth today, carefully grounding their…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 0.67" wide x 0.97" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction and Conceptual Framework




Exploring Changing Discourses of Childhood and Youth



Making Trouble: Representations of Social Work, Youth, and Pathology




Missing Children: Representing Young People Away from Placement




It Ain't as Simple as It Seems: Risky Youths, Morality, and Service Markets in Schools




"Stop the Super Jail for Kids": Youth Activism to Reclaim Childhood in the Juvenile Justice System




Good Mothers/Teen Mothers: Claiming Rights and Responsibilities




The Well-Being of Children and the Question of Attachment




Contexts and Settings



Childhood by Geography: Toward a Framework of Rights, Responsibilities, and Entitlements




From "Youth Home" to "Juvenile Detention": Constructing Disciplined Children in Detroit




Educating All Our Children




Constructing Ability and Disability Among Preschoolers in the Crestview Headstart Program




Children and Youth in a Medicalized World: Young People's Agency in Mental Health Treatment




Accounting for Risk: Children and Youth in Community-Based Reform




"At Risk" for Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Rethinking the "Normal" Middle-Class Family




Reinventing Social Work with Children and Youth



Child's-Eye View




On Project SpeakOUT




The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project: A Case Study in Law and Social Justice




"You May Even be President of the United States One Day"? Challenging Commercialized Feminism in Programming for Girls in Juvenile Justice




Youth Uprising: Gritty Youth Leadership Development and communal Transformation




Young People as Leaders in Conflict Resolution







Afterword


About the Contributors


Index