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How does foster care work?: international evidence on outcomes
- Editors:
- FERNANDEZ Elizabeth, BARTH Richard P., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 320p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The editors bring together a collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. The articles draw on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world and provide an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. The writers offer new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. Taken together the contributions establish a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. The book is aimed at anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students. It forms part of the Child Welfare Outcomes series which examines original research and current policy debates to help those involved better understand and improve the outcomes of services for children and young people in need. The series takes an evidence-based approach including children's experiences and analysis of costs and effectiveness in the assessment of interventions.
Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful: alcoholism, addiction, and early recovery
- Author:
- MCCULLY Chris
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 237p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book gives a detailed account of the early stages of recovery from alcoholism. From his admittance into hospital to his life as a writer in the Netherlands, the author offers a detailed and often analytical reflection on what it feels like to be a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism, but there is daily management, and there is hope. This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand, or wishes that someone else could understand, the process of healing from addiction.
Addictions and problem drug use: issues in behaviour, policy and practice
- Editors:
- BLOOR Mick, WOOD Fiona
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 219p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on: estimating the prevalence of substance misuse; tobacco use among young people; an overview of gambling addiction; AIDS and British drug policy; Dutch alcohol and drug policy; injecting drug use and the HIV epidemic; needle exchange provision; community intervention among hidden populations of injecting drug users in the time of AIDS; working with androgenic anabolic steroid users; and effective interventions for problem drinkers.