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Children Living in Transition: Helping Homeless and Foster Care Children and Families
Cheryl (Ed Zlotnick
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Description for Children Living in Transition: Helping Homeless and Foster Care Children and Families
Paperback. Editor(s): Zlotnick, Cheryl. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4. BIC Classification: JFFB; JKSF; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and intensive case-management services that maintain family integrity and stability. Based on work undertaken at the Center for the Vulnerable Child in Oakland, California, which has provided mental health and intensive case management to children and families living in transition for more than two decades, this volume outlines culturally sensitive practices to engage families that feel disrespected by the ... Read more
Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and intensive case-management services that maintain family integrity and stability. Based on work undertaken at the Center for the Vulnerable Child in Oakland, California, which has provided mental health and intensive case management to children and families living in transition for more than two decades, this volume outlines culturally sensitive practices to engage families that feel disrespected by the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160971
SKU
V9780231160971
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About Cheryl (Ed Zlotnick
Cheryl Zlotnick is a principal investigator at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. For the past twenty-five years, she has worked as a clinical nurse specialist, program coordinator, evaluator, director, and scientist to promote the health and well-being of children and families living in unstable, homeless, or transitional situations.
Reviews for Children Living in Transition: Helping Homeless and Foster Care Children and Families
This unique volume highlights a major public health problem: the plight of vulnerable children in the foster care and homelessness systems. Within a social justice framework, Cheryl Zlotnick and her contributors give these children a voice to express the oppression, bias, racism, and power differentials underlying their care. By viewing these children as members of transitional families, this book describes ... Read more