Child and Family Advocacy
Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy
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Beschreibung
Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience—doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice for the larger community.
With this duty in clear sight, the contributors to Child and Family Advocacy assert that advocacy is neither a dying art nor a lost cause but a vital platform for improving children's lives beyond the scope of clinical practice. This uniquely practical reference builds an ethical foundation that defines advocacy as a professional competency, and identifies skills that clinicians and researchers can use in advocating at the local, state, and federal levels. Models of the advocacy process coupled with first-person narratives demonstrate how professionals across disciplines can lobby for change.
Among the topics discussed:
- Promoting children's mental health: collaboration and public understanding.
- Health reform as a bridge to health equity.
- Preventing child maltreatment: early intervention and public education
- Changing juvenile justice practice and policy.
- A multi-level framework for local policy development and implementation.
- When evidence and values collide: preventing sexually transmitted infections.
- Lessons from the legislative histor
Child and Family Advocacy is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, family studies, public health, developmental psychology, social work, and social policy.
Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience—doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice for the larger community.
With this duty in clear sight, the contributors to Child and Family Advocacy assert that advocacy is neither a dying art nor a lost cause but a vital platform for improving children's lives beyond the scope of clinical practice. This uniquely practical reference builds an ethical foundation that defines advocacy as a professional competency and identifies skills that clinicians and researchers can use in advocating at the local, state and federal levels. Models of the advocacy process coupled with first-person narratives demonstrate how professionals across disciplines can lobby for change.
Among the topics discussed:
- Promoting children's mental health: collaboration and public understanding.
- Health reform as a bridge to health equity.
- Preventing child maltreatment: early intervention and public education
- Changing juvenile justice practice and policy.
- A multi-level framework for local policy development and implementation.
- When evidence and values collide: preventing sexually transmitted infections.
- Lessons from the legislative history of federal special
Child and Family Advocacy is an essential resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, family studies, public health, developmental psychology, social work and social policy.
Establishes a model integrating research and advocacy practice and policy for children, youth, families and communities Provides a substantive knowledge base for effective social policy with training tools for professional advocacy Describes a range of advocacy skills, from grassroots efforts to testifying before legislative bodies Details how research informs advocacy efforts at the community, state and federal levels Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Anne McDonald Culp
Themen in »Child and Family Advocacy«
APA Division 37 Adolescent reproductive health Child care and well-being Child maltreatment Child mental and physical health Child poverty and advocacy Children and media Children, disasters, and trauma Children’s mental health Education reform Homelessness and child welfare Immigration and refugee children Juvenile justice NICHHD Early Child Care Research Native American children and families
Stimmen zu »Child and Family Advocacy«
"Child and Family Advocacy describes the process of advocacy using current scientific knowledge. It is very useful and hopeful to know that research knowledge can have an impact on policy and government funding to actually help the children we are studying... Although the scientific community has emphasized the need to connect research to practice, this is one of the first books to add the critical link to advocacy and the need to provide funding for evidence-based programs and treatment processes." (Linda C. Caterino, PsycCRITIQUES, February 24, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 8, Article 4)
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