Successfully engaging clients in the helping process is a critical task for child welfare
practitioners. Drop-out and noncompliance rates in child welfare services are high and lead …

This article reviews recent studies of family preservation and related family-strengthening
programs, estimates the effect sizes of outcomes in studies with control or comparison …

The long-awaited new edition is here! Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, by Peter H. Rossi,
Mark W. Lipsey, and Gary T. Henry, is the best-selling comprehensive introduction to the …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …

Armed with the latest research in the field, the Third Edition of Intimate Violence in Families
explodes many of the conventional myths and controversies hindering understanding of …

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines
major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its …

OBJECTIVES: In this trial, we compared Child Protective Services (CPS) recidivism
outcomes between the home-based SafeCare (SC) model for child neglect and comparable …

Objective: The objectives were to determine the effectiveness of programs in promoting
family wellness and preventing child maltreatment and to identify factors that moderate …

Choices about how to view evidence-based practice (EBP) are being made by educators,
practitioners, agency administrators, and staff in a variety of organizations designed to …

Child welfare service agencies provide parent training as part of their legally mandated
responsibility to provide services to assist families to keep their children at home or to …