Child welfare: Policies, services and interventions
8.7 - 18.7.2018 (9th edition)
The theme is treated through 4 modules
Module 1: General overview
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Child Welfare: Historical perspective
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Children’s rights: Concepts and principles
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The child welfare system – a comparative international perspective
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Child abuse and neglect – understanding it scope and nature
Module 2: Policies and services
- Legislation and regulations in child welfare
- Community-based services for children at risk
- Out-of-Home placement for children at risk (residential care and foster care)
- Adoption
- Decision-making in the child welfare system
- Balancing parents’ rights with state’s interests leading to children’s protection
- Children’s voices in the child welfare system
- Child advocacy and child welfare
Module 3: Interventions and practices
- Best practice in child welfare and protection
- Interventions with family and children at risk (e.g, trauma-informed treatments for children and parents)
- Prevention – can we prevent child abuse and neglect?
- Family-centered practices
- Intercultural interventions with children at risk and their families
Module 4: Research
- The state of the child in the welfare system
- The child perspective regarding the welfare system – studying children as subjects
- Long term studies – from childhood to adulthood