Featherstone / Hooper / Scourfield Gender and Child Welfare in Society

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-68478-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can helpresearchers and practitioners better understand familyrelationships and issues in children's development
* Draws on current developments in thinking about genderrelations
* Offers an overview of sociological, psychological anddevelopmental perspectives on family relationships, child welfareoutcomes and the practice/policy realities of professionalinterventions with families
* Chapters address range of service settings; including familysupport, child health, education, child protection, domesticviolence, 'looked after' children and youthjustice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Featherstone, Brid

Hooper, Carol-Ann

Scourfield, Jonathan

Taylor, Julie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
1 Gender and Child Welfare in Society: Introduction to Some KeyConcepts (Jonathan Scourfield).
2 Exploring the Relationship between Gender and Child Health: AComparative Analysis of High and Low Economic Resource Countries(Lorraine Green and Julie Taylor).
3 Gender, Child Maltreatment and Young People's Offending(Carol-Ann Hooper).
4 Gender and Schooling (Shereen Benjamin).
5 Are Abused Women 'Neglectful' Mothers? A Critical ReflectionBased on Women's Experiences (Simon Lapierre).
6 The Clock Starts Now: Feminism, Mothering and AttachmentTheory in Child Protection Practice (Julia Krane, Linda Davies,Rosemary Carlton and Meghan Mulcahy).
7 Engaging Fathers - Promoting Gender Equality? (BridFeatherstone).
8 Working with Violent Male Carers (Fathers and Stepfathers)(Mark Rivett).
9 The Family Group Conference in Child Welfare: A View from NewZealand (Margaret McKenzie).
10 Gender in Residential Childcare (Mark Smith).
11 Therapeutic Options in Child Protection and GenderedPractices (Trish Walsh).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work and SocialPolicy at the University of Bradford. Her research interestsinclude gender and child welfare, with a specific interest infathering.
Carol-Ann Hooper is a senior lecturer in Social Policy atthe University of York. Her research and teaching focus onthe overlapping fields of child welfare, crime and gender.
Jonathan Scourfield is Reader in Social Work at CardiffSchool of Social Sciences. His research interests cover gender,child welfare, children's identities, and suicide.
Julie Taylor is Professor of Family Health and ResearchDean in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University ofDundee. She is associate editor of Child Abuse Review,co-founding member of the Scottish Child Care and ProtectionNetwork, and Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science.