Child Welfare and the Significance of Family / Halvor Nordby, Grethe Netland, Astrid Halsa (eds.)

• HerausgeberIn: Halsa, Astrid 1957-
• AutorIn der Einleitung: Halsa, Astrid 1957-
• MitwirkendeR: Halsa, Astrid 1957-
• Language: English

This book focuses on the significance of family in child welfare (CW) services from multidisciplinary perspectives. The authors are concerned with how families experience encounters with CW workers, how professional CW work with families is guided by rules and principles, and how social structures and ideologies influence CW work. Taken together, the chapters contribute to a comprehensive understanding of how CW workers should understand the importance of family for children.The book is important for everyone who works with the welfare of children and their families, and for those who educate CW workers. Although the context for many of the discussions in the book is Norwegian CW work, the topics are general, recognisable and relevant to similar discussions in other countries. The book is intended for CW workers, policymakers, researchers, and teachers and students in social work and child welfare study programmessk tekst

Table of Contents

Preface / Halvor Nordby, Grethe Netland, Astrid Halsa.- Introduction / Halvor Nordby, Grethe Netland.- 1.: Children, family, and state :changing relationships and responsibilities / Halvor Fauske, Camilla Bennin, Bjørn Arne Buer - 2.: How parental relationships Influence young people’s identities and meaning constructions of family and family life / Astrid Halsa- - 3.: Family ruptures and un-belonging :discomfort in the Norwegian child welfare and migrant minority families / Anne Sigfrid Grønseth. - 4.: Inclusion of children and youth in foster families : aims, challenges and solutions / Mari Rysst.- 5.: Quality and legitimacy in ECEC mapping : how can mapping contribute to the protection of children and their families? / Bjørg Midtskogen. - 6.: Narrative identities in Children as next of kin.: a qualitative Interview study / Kerstin Söderström.- 7.: Family group conferences and discourse ethics in child welfare work / Halvor Nordby. - 8.: As beings, children need to be at home / Cathrine Grimsgaard. - 9.: Norwegian child welfare cases in the European Court of Human Rights – an ethical perspective on the judgments / Grethe Netland. - 10.: Should foster care replace the family? : child welfare and the value of family privacy / Eirik Christopher Gundersen. - 11.: Family ethics and child welfare / Halvor Nordby