Introduction by the Editors, Mark E. Courtney and Dorota
Iwaniec
1: Residential Care in Ireland, Robbie Gilligan
2: Residential Care in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland,
Roger Bullock and Dominic McSherry
3: Swedish Residential Care in the Landscape of Out-of- Home Care,
Marie Sallnäs
4: Residential Care for Children in Romania: A model for child
protection reform in Central and Eastern Europe, Ovidiu
Gavrilovici
5: Residential Care for Children 'At Risk' in Israel - Current
Situation and Future Challenges, Talal Dolev, Dalia Ben Rabi, and
Tamar Zemach Marom
6: Residential Care for Children in Botswana, Tapologo Maundeni
7: Residential Care in South Africa, Brian Stout
8: Residential Care in Korea: Past, Present and Future, Bong Joo
Lee
9: Residential Programs for Young People in Australia: Their
Current Status and Use in Australia, Frank Ainsworth and Patricia
Hansen
10: Children and Youth in Institutional care in Brazil: Historical
Perspectives and Current Overview, Irene Rizzini and Irma
Rizzini
11: Residential Care in the United States of America: Past, Present
and Future, Mark E. Courtney and Darcy Hughes-Heuring
12: Looking Backward To See Forward Clearly: A Cross-National
Perspective on Residential Care, Mark E. Courtney, Talal Dolev, and
Robbie Gilligan
Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D., is the Ballmer Chair for Child Well-Being
in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is
also Executive Director of Partners for Our Children, a child
welfare research, development and training center at the
university. Dr. Courtney previously served on the faculties of the
University of Chicago, where he was Director of the Chapin Hall
Center for Children from 2001 to 2006, and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on child welfare services
and policy.
Dorota Iwaniec, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Social Work and
former Director of the Institute of Child Care Research at Queen's
University Belfast. Professor Iwaniec is well known for her
extensive work in the areas of emotional abuse and neglect and
failure to thrive in children, having authored nearly a hundred
scientific and practice papers, many chapters in edited books, and
several books on the subject of child care and child protection.
Her writing is influenced by
continuous practice and empirical evidence.
"This is an excellent collection of country case studies of
residential care of children, largely in the advanced
industrialized countries, their commonalities, and disparities. It
provides a splendid picture of what has been the dominant form of
child welfare and out-of-home care in these countries and a
beginning discussion of the factors that shaped these
developments."--Sheila B. Kamerman, DSW Compton Foundation
Centennial Professor of Social Work and
Co-Director, Institute for Child and Family Policy at Columbia
University and Co-Director of the Cross-National Studies Research
Program
"Residential Care of Children provides a very unique contribution
to the international literature about out-of-home care for
children. Even though residential care for children has been
criticized by practitioners, scientists, and policy makers, it
remains to be a major service provision for children who are at
risk throughout the world. Certainly this volume will stimulate
continued scholarship that will provide more answers to the ongoing
questions
about providing safe and effective care to some of the world's most
vulnerable children."--Ronald W. Thompson, Ph.D., Director, Boys
Town National Research Institute for Child and Family Studies
"Mark Courtney, Dorota Iwaniec, and their collaborators have
compiled a significant contribution to the history, science and
politics of residential care viewed in cross-national perspective.
This impressive collection sheds light on a much discussed, but
rarely rigorously studied sector of child, youth, and family
services: residential care and treatment for vulnerable children.
Those who plan, implement, and evaluate out-of-home care services
will find much
of practical value here, as well as important contextual and
programmatic information on the place and purpose of residential
services in varied national settings. Taken together, one hopes
these
insights will inform a new generation of applied research on this
neglected arena of child welfare."--James K. Whittaker, Ph.D.,
Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus, University of
Washington School
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