Research Catalog

Title

Who speaks for the children? : the handbook of individual and class child advocacy / edited by Jack C. Westman.

Publication

Sarasota, FL : Professional Resource Exchange, c1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

Westman, Jack C.

Description

xxii, 370 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Child Advocacy
• Child Advocacy > United States > legislation
• Child Welfare > United States > legislation
• Child Welfare > United States
• Child welfare > United States
• Children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Children's rights > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The principles and techniques of individual child advocacy / Jack C. Westman -- Developmental considerations in youth advocacy / Laurence Steinberg -- The legal rights of parents and children / Jack C. Westman -- The purpose and operation of the child advocacy team / Jack C. Westman -- The role of guardians ad litem in custody contests / Martha L. Fineman -- The protection and reliability of children as witnesses / Jack C. Westman -- Child advocacy in day care / Jack C. Westman -- Child advocacy in special education / Stanley S. Herr -- The context of child abuse and neglect assessment / James Garbino -- Interventions in child abuse and neglect / Patricia A. Schene -- Child advocacy in the management of sexual molestation and incest / Jack C. Westman -- The termination of parental rights as a therapeutic option / David L. Kaye and Jack C. Westman.
• Selling adults on children's issues : problems of class child advocacy / Gary B. Melton -- Workplace dilemmas for mothers and their children : domestic ideology and public indifference / Valerie Polakow -- Public policies for disadvantaged children and their families / Judith H. Weitz.

ISBN

0943158486 (hard cover) :

LCCN

^^^90052847^

OCLC

23649692

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library