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It is substantively solid covering the major issues, historically and contemporarily. I think that it will serve as a solid go-to introductory text that will likely appeal to many social work programs. -- Jennifer Bellamy, Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston

It is substantively solid covering the major issues, historically and contemporarily. I think that it will serve as a solid go-to introductory text that will likely appeal to many social work programs. -- Jennifer Bellamy, Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston Joan Shireman's second edition is an excellent comprehensive resource on policies and practices impacting child welfare service delivery today, such as family preservation, permanency planning, child protective services decision making, open adoptions, transracial adoptions, kinship care, international adoptions, and service delivery to youth in transition and youth with disabilities. The author highlights the need for workers to know the communities from which families come, social justice issues, such as the disproportionate representation of children of color in the child welfare system, and the potential impact of subtle, and sometimes unrecognized racial biases. ?This book should be required reading for child welfare courses, and for training child welfare practitioners and other service providers working with children and families, as it provides a unique contextual look at the intersections between systems (juvenile justice, mental health, child welfare) and social issues (poverty, substance abuse, and violence in the community). -- Ruth McRoy, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work

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Joan Foster Shireman is emerita professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University and coauthor of Adoption: Theory, Policy, and Practice and Care and Commitment: Foster Parent Adoption Decisions. An established expert on child welfare policy and practice, she also writes on single parent and transracial adoption, foster care, and the experiences of workers and families in protective services.

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