Child Welfare and Development: a Japanese Case Study

Name: Child Welfare and Development: a Japanese Case Study
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ISBN: 9781283296182

ISBN-10: 1283296187

ISBN-13: 9781283296182

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Authors: Sachiko Bamba, Wendy L. Haight

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Bamba and Haight provide an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan. Their innovative research program combines strategies from developmental psychology, ethnography and action research. Although child advocates from around the world share certain goals and challenges, there is substantial cultural variation in how child maltreatment is understood, its origins, impact on children and families, as well as societal responses deemed appropriate. The authors step outside of the Western cultural context to illustrate creative ecologically- and developmentally-based strategies for supporting…

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List price: $180.98
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2011
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 224

Sachiko Bamba received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, School of Social Work. She received her Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University and Master of Sociology from Kwansei Gakuin University. Dr Bamba has published a number of articles on children's socialization in child care institutions in Japanese and English, including in Children and Youth Services Review and Social Work.