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Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice
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Description for Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice
Hardcover. Editor(s): Mendes, Philip; Snow, Pamela. Num Pages: 430 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 739.
This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role of advocacy groups, ethical challenges and cultural factors. In doing so it demonstrates that, whilst young people are universally a vulnerable group, there are vast differences in their experiences of out-of-home care and transitions from care, and their shorter and longer-term outcomes. Equally, there are ... Read more
This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role of advocacy groups, ethical challenges and cultural factors. In doing so it demonstrates that, whilst young people are universally a vulnerable group, there are vast differences in their experiences of out-of-home care and transitions from care, and their shorter and longer-term outcomes. Equally, there are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137556387
SKU
V9781137556387
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Ref
99-15
About N/A
Philip Mendes is Associate Professor and Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Australia. Pamela Snow is Professor and Head of the Rural Health School at La Trobe University, Australia.
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