Social work and child welfare politics : : Through Nordic lenses / / ed. by Hannele Forsberg, Teppo Kröger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Blomberg, Helena,; Corander, Clary,; Eronen, Tuija,; Eydal, Guðný Björk,; Follesø, Reidun,; Forsberg, Hannele,; Hydén, Margareta,; Júlíusdóttir, Sigrún,; Kroll, Christian,; Kröger, Teppo,; Kuronen, Marjo,; Laakso, Riitta,; Lahtinen, Pia,; Meeuwisse,, Anna,; Mevik, Kate,; Pringle, Keith,; Pösö, Tarja,; Ritala-Koskinen, Aino,; Scaramuzzino, Roberto,; Swärd, Hans,; Tronvoll, Inger Marii,
• HerausgeberIn: Forsberg, Hannele,; Kröger, Teppo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Children and families are at the heart of social work all over the world, but, until now Nordic perspectives have been rare in the body of English-language child welfare literature. Is there something that makes child welfare ideas and practices that are in use in the Nordic countries characteristic...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families
• A Nordic model in child welfare?
• From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood
• Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare
• Family-focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century
• In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work
• Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible?
• Listening to children’s experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence
• Now you see them – now you don’t: institutions in child protection policy
• Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them
• References
• Index