Understanding Family Support: Policy, Practice and Theory

by John Pinkerton, John Canavan, Pat Dolan, et al.

Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.

Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy and practice. The authors argue that this weakens family support as an overarching child welfare paradigm. They present a unifying definition of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184905066X
• ISBN13: 9781849050661
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"