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Children welfare and children’s mental health articles

 

Berry, M., Cash, S. J., & Mathiensen, S. G. (2003). Validation of the strengths and stressors tracking device with a child welfare population. Child Welfare, 82, 293-318 

Early, T. J. (2001). Measures for practice with families from a Strengths Perspective. Families in Society, 82(3), 225.

Early, T. J., & GlenMaye, L. F. (2000). Valuing families: Social work practice with families from a Strengths Perspective. Social Work, 45(2), 118.

Goldstein, H. (1999). "Different" Families. Families in Society, 80(2), 107.

Malekoff, A. (2001). The power of group work with kids: A practitioner’s reflection on strengths-based practice. Families in Society, 82(2), 243-249.

Moore, T. D., Rapp, C. A., & Roberts, B. (2000). Improving child welfare performance through supervisory use of client outcome data. Child Welfare, 79(5), 475.

Van Wormer, K., & Bednar, S. G. (2002). Working with male batterers: A restorative-Strengths Perspective. Families in Society, 83(5/6), 557.

Weick, A. (1997). Family therapy and social constructionism: A good marriage. Families in Society, 78(4), 366.

Weick, A., & Saleebey, D. (1995). Supporting family strengths: Orienting policy and practice toward the 21st century. Families in Society, 76(3), 141.

Weick, A., & Saleebey, D. (1995). Supporting family strengths: Orienting policy and practice toward the 21st century. Families in Society, 76(3), 141.

Werrbach, G. B. (1996). Family-strengths-based intensive child case management. Families in Society, 77(4), 216.

Wolin, S., & Wolin, S. J. (1996). The challenge model: The challenge model working with strengths in children of substance-abusing parents. Adolescent Substance Abuse and Dual Disorders, 5, 243-256.

Yip, K.-s. (2003). A Strengths Perspective in working with an adolescent with dual diagnosis. Clinical Social Work Journal, 31(2), 189.

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"By viewing parents and children as ‘at promise’ we enhance the possibilities of constructing authentic relations where we actively listen to and learn from one another."

 Beth Blue Swadener, Children and Families “at Promise”: Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk in the book of the same name, edited by Swadener and Sally Lubeck, 1995, p.42.