Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field

Child Welfare is comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. It provides a single source for all material necessary to providing a contextual child welfare course. The material is designed to meet the needs of social work students entering the child welfare workforce.

Author: Kathryn Krase,Tobi Delong-Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/24/2020
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781138218833

About the Author

Kathryn Krase, Associate Professor of Social Work in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, is an expert in the Mandated Reporting of Suspected Child Maltreatment, with many significant publications and presentations on the topic. As a lawyer, Dr. Krase represented children in Family Court for the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Tobi DeLong Hamilton, Assistant Professor and MSW Program Director in the Department of Social Work at Brandman University, has worked in the social work field for 20 years and has experience in child welfare, adoptions, medical, and psychiatric social work. She worked in private practice as a psychotherapist specializing in family and childhood problems prior to moving into higher education full time. While in private practice, she maintained a connection to public child welfare by evaluating, writing reports, and testifying as an expert witness for children in foster care.