Awards
- Winner of 35th Annual Outstanding Academic Books list 1999
Overview
Drawing on over twenty years of child welfare experience and extensive interviews with 54 gay and lesbian young people who lived in out-of-home-care child welfare settings in three North American cities-Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto-Gerald Mallon presents narratives of marginalized young people trying to find the ""right fit."" Mallon permits the voices of these young people to guide the research, allowing them to tell their own stories and to suggest what is important in their own words. Their experiences help the reader to begin to understand the discrepancies between the myths and misinformation about gay and lesbian adolescents and their realities in the out-of-home child welfare systems in which they live. The first comprehensive examination of the experiences of gay and lesbian youths in the child welfare system, We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon makes solid recommendations to social work practitioners as well as to policy makers about how they can provide a competent practice for gay and lesbian adolescents, and offers a methods chapter which will be useful in classroom instruction.
Full Product Details
Author: Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.283kg
ISBN: 9780231104555
ISBN 10: 0231104553
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 20 May 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
This book is a must for all child welfare professionals. -- Betty Carter, University of British Columbia, International Social Work We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon surely will appeal to a broad audience, ranging from concerned citizens to human service professionals. It is easily readable by interested persons, but contains enough technical information to satisfy the curious academician. -- Gary Remafedi, MD, University of Minnesota, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services
This book is a must for all child welfare professionals. -- Betty Carter, University of British Columbia International Social Work We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon surely will appeal to a broad audience, ranging from concerned citizens to human service professionals. It is easily readable by interested persons, but contains enough technical information to satisfy the curious academician. -- Gary Remafedi, MD, University of Minnesota Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services
Author Information
Gerald P. Mallon is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and author of Foundations of Social Work Practice with Gay and Lesbian Persons.
