Research Catalog

Title

Childhood, youth, and social work in transformation : implications for policy and practice / Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook, and Janet L. Finn, editors.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Nybell, Lynn M.
• Shook, Jeffrey J.
• Finn, Janet L., 1956-

Description

xviii, 457 pages; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Childhood, youth, & social work in transformation

Subjects

• Social work with teenagers > United States
• Child welfare > Government policy > United States
• Social work with children > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Rosemary Sarri -- Introduction and Conceptual Framework / Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook and Janet L. Finn -- Pt. I. Exploring Changing Discourses of Childhood and Youth -- 1. Making Trouble: Representations of Social Work, Youth, and Pathology / Janet L. Finn -- 2. Missing Children: Representing Children Away from Placement / Lynn M. Nybell -- 3. It Ain't as Simple as It Seems: Risky Youths in School, Morality, and Service Markets / Linwood H. Cousins -- 4. "Stop the Superjail for Kids": Youth Activism to Reclaim Childhood in the Juvenile Justice System / Jennifer Tilton -- 5. Good Mothers/Teen Mothers: Claiming Rights and Responsibilities / Deborah Freedman Lustig -- 6. The Well-Being of Children and the Question of Attachment / Kerrie Ghenie and Charlie Wellenstein -- Pt. II. Contexts and Settings -- 7. Childhood by Geography: Toward a Framework of Rights, Responsibilities, and Entitlements / Jeffrey J. Shook -- 8. From "Youth Home" to "Juvenile Detention": Constructing Disciplined Children in Detroit / Luke Bergmann -- 9. Educating All Our Children / Ruth Zweifler -- 10. Constructing Ability and Disability Among Preschoolers in the Crestview Headstart Program / Patricia A. Jessup -- 11. Children and Youth in a Medicalized World: Young People's Agency in Mental Health Treatment / Ben Stride-Darnley -- 12. Accounting for Risk: Children and Youth in Community-based Reform / Lynn M. Nybell -- 13. At Risk for Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Rethinking the "Normal" Middle-Class Family / Rachel Heiman -- Pt. III. Reinventing Social Work with Children and Youth -- 14. Child's-Eye View / Janet L. Finn -- 15. On Project SpeakOUT / Derrick Jackson -- 16. The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project: A Case Study in Law and Social Justice / Maryam Ahranjani -- 17. "You May Even be President of the United States One Day"? Challenging Commercialized Feminism in Programming for Girls in Juvenile Justice / Sara Goodkind -- 18. Youth Uprising: Gritty Youth Leadership Development and Communal Transformation / Jennifer Tilton -- 19. Young People as Leaders in Conflict Resolution / Charles D. Garvin -- 20. Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project: Foster Youth as Teachers to Transform Social Work / Lori Fryzel and Jamie Lee Evans.

ISBN

• 0231141408 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231141406 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231518528 (ebook)
• 9780231518529 (ebook)

LCCN

2008029831

OCLC

• ocn226360291
• 226360291
• SCSB-5457312

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries