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The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which became law in 1997, elicited a major shift in federal policy and thinking toward child welfare, emphasizing children's safety, permanency, and well-being over preserving biological ties at all costs. The first edition of this volume mapped the field of child welfare after ASFA's passage, detailing the practices, policies, programs, and research affected by the legislation's new attitude toward care. This second edition highlights the continuously changing child welfare climate in the U.S., including content on the Fostering Connections Act of 2008.

The authors have updated the text throughout, drawing from real-world case examples and data obtained from the national Child and Family Services Reviews and emerging empirically based practices. They have also added chapters addressing child welfare workforce issues, supervision, and research and evaluation. The volume is divided into four sections--child and adolescent well-being, child and adolescent safety, permanency for children and adolescents, and systemic issues within services, policies, and programs. Recognized scholars, practitioners, and policy makers discuss meaningful engagement with families, particularly Latino families; health care for children and youth, including mental health care; effective practices with LGBT youth and their families; placement stability; foster parent recruitment and retention; and the challenges of working with immigrant children, youth, and families.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Introduction: An Overview of Children, Youth, and Family Services, Policies, and Programs in the United States(p. 1)
• Historical Evolution of Child Welfare Services(p. 11)
• Part 1 Child and Adolescent Well-Being
• Family Support Services(p. 51)
• Meaningful Family Engagement(p. 70)
• Engaging Latino Families(p. 86)
• Health Care for Children and Youth(p. 94)
• Mental Health Care for Children and Youth(p. 115)
• Educational Issues for Children and Youth(p. 145)
• LGBT Youth and Their Families(p. 158)
• Runaway and Homeless Youth(p. 179)
• Part 2 Child and Adolescent Safety
• Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect(p. 207)
• Child Protective Services(p. 236)
• Risk Assessment(p. 253)
• Family Preservation(p. 270)
• Sexual Abuse Issues(p. 288)
• Substance Abuse Issues(p. 299)
• Domestic Violence Issues(p. 312)
• Part 3 Permanency for Children and Adolescents
• Reunification(p. 339)
• Guardianship(p. 355)
• Customary Adoption for American Indian and Alaskan Native Children(p. 373)
• Kinship Care(p. 382)
• Adoption(p. 401)
• Birth Mothers(p. 424)
• Adoption Disruption(p. 437)
• Unpacking Permanency for Youth: Overuse/Misuse of Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA) as a Permanency Goal(p. 455)
• Youth Development and Transitional Living Services(p. 467)
• Family Foster Care(p. 480)
• Residential Services(p. 498)
• Sibling Issues(p. 516)
• Visits: Critical to the Well-Being and Permanency of Children and Youth in Care(p. 527)
• Postpermanency Services(p. 543)
• Part 4 Systemic Issues in Child Welfare
• The Child and Family Services Reviews(p. 567)
• Placement Stability(p. 583)
• Foster Parent Recruitment, Retention, Development, and Support(p. 601)
• Legal and Judicial Engagement(p. 616)
• Child Welfare Workforce Issues(p. 624)
• Child Welfare Supervision(p. 643)
• Research and Evaluation(p. 660)
• Disproportionate Representation of Children and Youth(p. 680)
• Fatherhood(p. 694)
• Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families(p. 710)
• Contributors(p. 721)
• Index(p. 727)

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CHOICE Review

Mallon and Hess offer an extraordinarily comprehensive account of child welfare practice, policy, and programming in this updated version of their 2005 classic. Their broad, edited collection gathers perspectives on all-important aspects of child welfare work from social work educators, practitioners, and consultants. Each contributor outlines major assumptions and values of child welfare that underlie their specific focus, identifies and elaborates on the expanding knowledge that supports today's practice, and reviews relevant recent research. Safety, permanence, and well-being are the book's tripartite organizing principles. The editors have organized the text into three sections that follow two chapters offering critical historical and legislative contexts. Part one explores child and adolescent well-being in the broadest scope. The second part reviews critical issues pertaining to child and adolescent safety, including excellent chapters on child protection, sexual abuse, and family preservation. The final section is devoted to a wide array of issues related to permanency. Though the book does not cover all possible areas of interest within the field or its up-to-the-minute issues or innovations, the editors have provided the most extensive, well-written, and accessible text available on child welfare. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals. --Julie Cooper Altman, Adelphi University

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Gerald P. Mallon, is the Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare and executive director of the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at the Silverman School of Social Work at Hunter College.
Peg Mccartt Hess, has been a social work educator and child welfare practitioner, advocate, and researcher for more than forty years.