The Family at Risk: Issues and Trends in Family Preservation Services

by Marianne Berry

The promise and problems of a controversial effort to keep troubled families together

The Family at Risk offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the family preservation movement, a relatively new and highly controversial form of service delivery to families at imminent risk of child removal. Mandated by federal legislation and hotly debated by politicians, practitioners, and public citizens, family preservation programs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570031630
• ISBN13: 9781570031632
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"