Overview
To foster more discussion between practitioners and scholars, this book explores unified approaches for prevention of, and treatment for, children in abusive situations and their parents.The contributors probe: the history of abusive behavior and intoxication; the research literature on drug-exposed children in the welfare system and the interventions that facilitate their optimum development; the legislative and policy contexts in which potential collaborations between the fields of substance abuse and child welfare are being deployed or abandoned; the damaging effects that parental and family substance abuse add to a host of child welfare problems; the need for clinicians to develop a sound therapeutic foundation to enhance their effe
- | Author: Robert L. Hampton
- | Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
- | Publication Date: Feb 12, 1998
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0761914587
- | ISBN-13: 9780761914587
