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Print Price: $102.99

Format:
Paperback
240 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190870423

Copyright Year:
2018

Imprint: OUP US

Rural Child Welfare Practice

Stories from the Field

Edited by Joanne Riebschleger and Barbara J. Pierce

Rural Child Welfare Practice provides students and practitioners with case studies about rural people as a diverse group, a topic rarely taught. This means that millions of rural people spread across the majority of the land in the United States, Canada, and Australia may not receive culturally-sensitive rural child welfare services. The casebook is drawn from real stories of rural child welfare practice. It displays lessons learned from people working in the services "field" of child welfare, while set within the geographic expanses of the "fields" of rural land.

The text has 18 chapters illustrating rural child welfare practice rewards, challenges, strategies, and practice wisdom. All of the stories were drawn from real rural child welfare practice cases. The rural settings include the south, north, east, west, and middle of the United States. There is a Canadian and an Australian chapter. The case vignettes include racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, and rural diversity, with particular attention to working with Native American/American Indians as well as First Nation (Canada) and Aborigine (Australia) people. The book covers a wide range of child welfare services (such as protective services, kinship care, and adoption) and does this from a variety of perspectives. For example, some stories are told by mental health and health services providers with special attention to child and family voice. Generalist practice interventions are detailed.

Each chapter provides background information with professional literature, a case vignette, "take away" learning application, summary. In addition, each chapter has discussion questions, learning/teaching activities, recommended resources/readings, and a bibliography. It is likely to be useful for students, professionals, and educators for learning what today's rural child welfare experts say must happen to engage in effective rural child welfare practice with children and families.

Introduction, Joanne Riebschleger
1. Rural Child Welfare Practice, Joanne Riebschleger and Barbara Pierce
2. Theories for Rural Child Welfare, Barbara Pierce
3. Poverty, Pavement, and Paying Attention: Rural Child Welfare Practice in the American Great Plains, Debra Norris
4. Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Rural Resource Family and Child Matching, Heather Craig-Oldsen
5. Cultural Humility within Rural-Practice Wisdom, Debra Norris
6. Adoption Social Work in Rural New England, Barbara Pierce
7. Working with Aboriginal Families in Canada, Khadija Khaja
8. A New Social Ill in Ishpeming, Joanne Riebschleger
9. On Your Country: Living and Working Respectfully with Aboriginal Families in Rural Australia, Rochelle Hine
10. Rural Social Work in a Native American Community, Toni Hail
11. Providing Services to Children of Recent Military Veterans, Andrea Kephart
12. Domestic Violence Post-Deployment: The Case of the Martin Family, Steven M. Hyer
13. Child Welfare: Two Kingdoms Collide, Susie Touchton Cashwell
14. Coming-Out in Rural America: The Case of Emilio Hernandez, Richard Brandon-Friedman and Gail Folaron
15. Technology and Child Welfare Practice: Lessons from Montana, Charlie Wellenstein
16. Foster-Care Stigma and Ethical Boundary Violations in the Rural Child Welfare Workplace, Angelique Day
17. Rural Relationship, Resources, and Rhythms: A Child Welfare Training Program Learns about Workforce Development for (and from) Rural and Tribal Child Welfare Workers, Katharine Cahn and Michelle Warden
18. Secondary Trauma Prevention in Rural Child Welfare: Professionals' Self-Care Strategies, Joanne Riebschleger and Barbara Pierce
Index

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Joanne Riebschleger, PhD, LMSW, ACSW is an Associate Professor at the
School of Social Work at Michigan State University. She grew up in northern rural Michigan. For over two decades, she practiced rural social work with children and families. She is a consultant to a national child welfare workforce development project and served as past vice president to the National Rural Social Work Caucus. She has been a social work educator for nearly two decades.

Barbara Pierce, Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW is an Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Social Work. She has over 30 years of social work experience working with children, youth, and families. Despite her city upbringing and education, she practiced for most of her career in small towns and rural communities in Indiana and Louisiana and has developed a deep respect for those communities and the people who live in them. She has been a social work educator for 17 years.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Rural Social Work in the 21st Century - Michael R. Daley
Practicing Rural Social Work - Paul Force-Emery Mackie, Kimberly Zammitt and Michelle Alvarez

Special Features

This is the first text to consider "rural" as a diverse group, with their own needs and cultural considerations, focusing on child welfare practice.
This text provides real life rural child welfare case material and discussion questions for social work and other human services profession students.
Chapters 7 (Canada) and 9 (Australia) provide ideas for international practice.
The text may also be useful for child welfare training, especially for workers beginning practice in rural areas.