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Child Welfare: Child, Youth, and Families: Academic Information Sources

This guide supports the curriculum for the field of practice specialization "Child Welfare: Child, Youth, and Families" at The Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.

From the Catalog

Behind from the Start : how America's war on the poor is harming our most vulnerable children by Lenette Lessing
Call Number: Stacks - HQ792 .U5 A99 2017
ISBN: 9780190459031
Publication Date: 2017
Black Single Mothers and the Child Welfare System : a guide for social workers on addressing oppression by Brandynicole Brooks
Call Number: Stacks HV1445 .B76 2016
ISBN: 9781138903012
Publication Date: 2016
Catching a Case : inequality and fear in New York City's child welfare system by Tina Lee
Call Number: Reserve - HV743 .N48 L44 2016
ISBN: 9780813576145
Publication Date: 2016
Exploring Child Welfare : a practice perspective, 7th Edition by Cynthia Crosson-Tower
Call Number: Stacks - HV741 .T682 2018
ISBN: 9780134547923
Publication Date: 2018
Out of Harm's Way : creating an effective child welfare system by Richard Gelles
Call Number: Stacks - HV741 .G45 2017
ISBN: 9780190618018
Publication Date: 2017
Pandora's Dilemma : theories of social welfare for the 21st century by David Stoesz
Call Number: Stacks HV95 .S8239 2018
ISBN: 9780190669669
Publication Date: 2018
Raising Government Children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state by Catherine E. Rymph
Call Number: Stacks HV881 .R95 2017 and Fulltext Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781469635651
Publication Date: 2018
Risk in Child Protection : assessment challenges and frameworks for practice by Martin C. Calder; Juliet Archer (Contribution by)
Call Number: Stacks HV751 .A6 C24 2015
ISBN: 9781849054799
Publication Date: 2016
Rural Child Welfare Practice : stories from "the field" by Joanne Riebschleger (Contribution by); Barbara J. Pierce (Contribution by)
Call Number: Stacks HV713 .R789 2018
ISBN: 9780190870423
Publication Date: 2018
Therapeutic Interventions for Families and Children in the Child Welfare System by Sheri Pickover; Heather Brown
Call Number: Stacks - RJ504 .P53 2016
ISBN: 9780826122186
Publication Date: 2016
"When the Welfare People Come" : race and class in the US child protection system by Don Lash
Call Number: Stacks HV741 .L377 2017
ISBN: 9781608467433
Publication Date: 2017

Databases for Reference Articles and eBooks

Library Databases for Research Articles

ERIC - Education (EBSCO)

Electronic Journals

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal
Child & Family Social Work
Child Welfare
Community, Work and Family
Contemporary Family Therapy
Journal of Adolescence
Journal of Family Social Work
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Hunter College Libraries Journals Catalog
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1. Click on link above or the Journals tab on the library's homepage;
2. Click open drop-down menu and select: "Title contains all words";
3. Search for journals with 'child', 'family', etc. in the title

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