Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare: Bridging Perspectives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761914587)

To foster more discussion between practitioners and scholars, this book explores unified approaches for prevention of, and treatment for, children in abusive situations and their parents. The contributors probe: the history of abusive behavior and intoxication; the research literature on drug-exposed children in the welfare system and the interventions that facilitate their optimum development; the legislative and policy contexts in which potential collaborations between the fields of substance abuse and child welfare are being deployed or abandoned; the damaging effects that parental and family substance abuse add to a host of child welfare problems; the need for clinicians to develop a sound therapeutic foundation to enhance their effe

Author: Robert L. Hampton, Vincent Senatore, Thomas P. Gullotta
ISBN-10: 0761914587
ISBN-13: 9780761914587
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 02/12/1998
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.55w x 0.79d