Children in Groups: A Social Work Perspective

by Marian F. Fatout

Does social work theory and practice give adequate attention to the specific needs of children? Fatout contends that it does not. All too often social work focuses on the family as a whole, the individual family members, or marital pairs. Relatively little attention is given to the child and, in a world of more and more single-parent families, latchkey children, and violent methods of problem-solving among children, this shortcoming needs to be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692564
• ISBN13: 9780865692565
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.7"