Volume II explores identities and challenges that may affect entry into child welfare and other systems, as well as families’ experiences once they are system-involved. Chapters in this volume examine critical issues such as mental and physical health, substance use, family violence and housing instability, as well as the needs and perspectives of specific populations, including youth and families with disabilities, those who identify as LGBTQ+, families who are immigrants, and those from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Chapters include:
Introduction
Eun Koh
Chapter 1: The Importance of Belonging and Supportive Interpersonal Relationships for Child Well-Being
Karla Shockley McCarthy and Kisha Radliff
Chapter 2: Children’s Mental Health
Cathleen A. Lewandowski and Miyuki F. Tedor
Chapter 3: Physical, Developmental, and Behavioral Health Needs of Youth
in Foster Care
Elesia N. Hines, Angela M. Tomlin, and Ralph A. Hicks
Chapter 4: Fight, Flight, Freeze…or Foster Resilience: A Developmental Neuroscience
Approach to Case Conceptualization and Service Provision for Children in the Welfare System
Briana H. Brukilacchio, Morgan Engelmann, Meredith I. Brinster, Prachi Khanna, and Sheri Ravenscroft
Chapter 5: Addressing Parental Substance Use among Clients of Child Welfare Programs
Laura Radel, Emily Hopkins, and Robin Ghertner
Chapter 6: A Call for a Race-Equity Perspective to Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Approaches in Schools
Jasmine D. Haynes, Khalilah L. Caines, and Itunu Ilesanmi
Chapter 7: Youth and Parents with Disabilities: A Critical Examination of Child Welfare Practice
Melissa Jenkins, Amy Levine, and Jason Tuell
Chapter 8: LGBTQ Youth in Child Welfare: An Intersectional, Multitheoretical Approach
June Paul, Sarah Mountz, Jordan Dyett, and Abigail MacDonald
Chapter 9: Family Homelessness: Th e Dilemma of Invisible Families
Diane Nilan, Natalie G. Rapp, and Mary E. Haskett
Chapter 10: Intimate Partner Violence
Jill Theresa Messing, Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya, and Megan Lindsay Brown
Chapter 11: Family and Child Immigration
Megan Finno-Velasquez, Anayeli Lopez, and Sophia Sepp
Chapter 12: Th e Best Interest of the Child: Immigration and Child Welfare System-Related Protections and Vulnerabilities for Unaccompanied Minors
Adam Avrushin, Mauricio Cifuentes, Maria Vidal de Haymes, and Celeste N. Sánchez
