It is 4pm on a crisp November afternoon in 1978. I am pacing up and down the road outside
the house I intend to visit to investigate a complaint of alleged child abuse. I am a student …

Australia's research and knowledge base on cultural competency has been slow to develop.
To help address this gap, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Family and …

Indigenous Australian children are overrepresented in the out-of-home care (OOHC) system,
with numbers and rates on an upward trajectory. There is now serious concern that this …

Aims: Waves of immigration from the latter half of the 20th century have changed the cultural
and ethnic mix of major regions of the world. Dynamic multicultural societies now are a …

Social Work: From Theory to Practice uses an integrated approach to explore a variety of
social theories through social work's unique interpretative lens. Systems, psychodynamic …

Background Capturing the scale of child maltreatment is difficult, but few would argue that it
is anything less than a global problem which can affect victims' health and well‐being …

This paper discusses the development of a practice framework for child welfare in New
Zealand. A practice framework is defined as a conceptual map that brings together, in an …

Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with
culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop. This lag could …

In recent years, kinship care has become a major contributor to the delivery of out-of-home
care services in most Western jurisdictions. Over time, statutory kinship care has been …

Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this
book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their …