Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children
Editors: Lonne, B., Scott, D., Higgins, D., Herrenkohl, T. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Features emerging systemic, policy and practice theory, and critical analysis concerning the development of public health approaches for the prevention of child maltreatment in various jurisdictions
- Captures the complexity in addressing the variety of ideological, institutional and historical issues in protection children
- Examines the increased attention focused upon public health approaches to prevent maltreatment and provide earlier interventions to assist vulnerable and struggling families and communities
- Offers new insights conceptualizing public health approaches to raise more awareness of delivering services for child protection
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This volume provides readers around the globe with a focused and comprehensive examination of how to prevent and respond to child maltreatment using evidence-informed public health approaches and programs that meet the needs of vulnerable children, and struggling families and communities. It outlines the system failures of contemporary forensically-driven child protection practice. Detailed guidance is provided about how to re-think earlier intervention strategies, and establish stronger and more effective programs and services that prevent maltreatment at the population level. Service user and stakeholder perspectives, particularly from marginalized groups including Indigenous peoples, highlight how public health approaches can better support families and keep children safe. Case studies from different countries grapple with the fraught nature of large system change and the various strategies needed to effect multi-level reforms. Presenting the reader with an array of innovative services used in different institutional and community context, this volume confronts the complex challenges found in implementing successful prevention programs that are aligned with diverse cultural and political environments and community expectations.
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Prof. Bob Lonne – Professor Lonne has a distinguished professional, management, research and academic career, with a primary focus on protecting children from maltreatment and developing earlier intervention and prevention strategies. He co-authored the Routledge publications ‘Reforming Child Protection’ (2009) and the follow up ‘Working Ethically in Child Protection’ (2016) which have influenced debate and critical analysis world wide of the processes and outcomes of the social and institutional arrangements used to prevent maltreatment and support struggling families. He has a longstanding commitment to the area of child protection and its service-delivery and workforce issues, and has authored and presented extensively on related issues in social work and the human services. Professor Lonne has participated and contributed to policy forums at the state and federal levels, and internationally and is recognized by Inquiries as an expert witness in relation to child protection systems. He has been a passionate advocate for earlier intervention and prevention strategies, highlighting how current approaches fail many children and contribute to poor life outcomes for children in state care. Professor Lonne was the National President of the Australian Association of Social Workers from 2005-2011.
Dr. Debbie Scott is a multidisciplinary researcher with nursing and public health background. Her early work as a nurse and public health injury prevention professional has led to a unique perspective to approaches in child protection and child well-being. Debbie has contributed to more than 100 peer review papers, manuscripts and government reports and is an experienced speaker, presenting at local, national and international conferences – including a number of keynote and invited papers. Debbie was the manager of the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, using surveillance data to inform policy on product safety, driver licensing for adolescents and toddler drownings, for example. She has extensive experience in the linkage of larger administrative data sets and health classifications, participating in the development of ICD-11 for child maltreatment coding of health data. She has worked in a number of academic and government settings. Her current work as a Senior Research Fellow for Monash University, Australia is focused on the intersection of child protection, family violence, mental health and alcohol and drugs.
Prof. Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University. He is located at the St Patrick’s (Melbourne) Campus. He was formerly the Deputy Director at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, where he has led innovative knowledge translation/exchange functions that have increased access to the evidence base for policy makers and practitioners working to protect children and promote family and community well-being. His work has focused in articulating the public health approach to safe family environments, and strategies for building child-safe organisational environments. Engagement between the research, policy and practice communities—in order to understand, and improve the circumstances of children, young people and their families—has been his passion for more than 25 years. As an academic and a senior commonwealth public servant, Daryl has contributed to more than 230 publications and over 440 presentations and media engagements. He has provided advice to key influential bodies on child protection, family policy, and population-level public health approaches to child safety and wellbeing, in Australia and internationally.
- Table of contents (28 chapters)
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The Successes and Limitations of Contemporary Approaches to Child Protection
Pages 3-17
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Stakeholder’s Experiences of the Forensic Child Protection Paradigm
Pages 19-33
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Assessing the Outcomes of Alternative Care and Treatment Responses
Pages 35-47
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‘Everybody’s Responsibility’: Exploring the Challenges of Community Engagement in Child Neglect
Pages 49-62
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Changing and Competing Conceptions of Risk and Their Implications for Public Health Approaches to Child Protection
Pages 65-78
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children
- Editors
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- Bob Lonne
- Deb Scott
- Daryl Higgins
- Todd Herrenkohl
- Series Title
- Child Maltreatment
- Series Volume
- 9
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-05858-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-05857-9
- Series ISSN
- 2211-9701
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXIII, 504
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
- Topics