Volume III highlights principles of practice for professionals in child- and family-serving systems. The first part of the volume focuses on micro- and mezzo-level topics and interventions for children and families in kinship or foster care; LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare; strategies for helping children and families achieve and maintain permanency; specific practices such as risk assessments, in-home services, and motivational interviewing; and considerations for youth who are pregnant or parenting.
Chapters for Part 1 include:
Introduction
Jim Gleeson
Chapter 1: What Works When Supporting Expectant and Parenting Youth and their Children
Nadine M. Finigan-Carr, Margo Candelaria and Kate Sweeney
Chapter 2: Trauma Screening in Perinatal Care Settings: Utilizing the Adverse Childhood Experience Survey to Optimize Maternal–Infant Care
Susanne Fuhrman
Chapter 3: Characteristics of Resource Parent Trainers and their Identified Need for Racially, Ethnically, and Culturally Relevant Training Material
Hung-Peng Lin, Angelique Day, Sierra Wollen, Carey Tompkins and Lori Vanderwill
Chapter 4: African American Children in Kinship Care
Bonnie Young Laing, Xiafei Wang, Gwendolyn Perry-Burney and Carrie Smith
Chapter 5: African American Grandmother Caregivers’ Perspectives on Caregiving in the Opioid Crisis
Priscilla A. Gibson, Ndilimeke J.C. Nashandi and Valandra
Chapter 6: A Re-examination of Structural and Systemic Barriers Affecting Black and Latinx Youth and Families who are Multisystem-Involved: Implications for Policy and Practice
Camille R. Quinn, Jacquelynn F. Duron, Sherri Simmons-Horton and Donte T. Boyd
Chapter 7: Understanding Resilience to Promote Strengths-Based Programs for Kinship Families
Qi Wu, Yanfeng Xu and Fei Pei
Chapter 8: In-Home Child Welfare Services
Miriam J. Landsman and Lisa Easley D’Aunno
Chapter 9: Social Work Practice with LGBTQ+ Youth in Child Welfare Systems: An International Approach
Gerald P. Mallon, June Paul, Mónica López López, Jeanette Cossar, Veronika Paulsen and Rodrigo González Álvarez
Chapter 10: Motivational Interviewing in Child- and Family-Serving Systems
Christopher Wirt and Caroline Long
Chapter 11: Child Safety and Risk of Future Maltreatment
Stacey M. Saunders-Adams
Chapter 12: Strategies to Promote Permanency
Tonia Stott
Chapter 13: Family Well-Being After Adoption and Guardianship: Considerations for Engaging Families Across the Life Course
Alfred G. Pérez, Kerrie Ocasio, Kevin R. White, Anne S. J. Farina and Nancy Rolock