| Description |
1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Unconditional Care in Context -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- What Does Ecological Mean? -- The Value of Values -- The Ecological Starting Point: And Who Are You? -- Some Elements of Ecologically Informed Practice -- Collaboration With Families -- Collaboration With Child- and Family-Serving Systems: Vendor Versus Partner -- The Boundaries and Domains of the Ecological Stream -- Time, Developmental Timing, and Group and Community History -- Space and Place -- Domains of Ecological Risk |
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Part I Key Domains of Ecological Adversity -- 1. Housing -- 2. Racism -- Forms of Racism -- Racial Segregation as a Form of Structural Racism -- Some Effects of Racism -- Health Disparities Related to Race -- Health Disparities, Excess Mortality, and Their Consequences -- 3. Place -- 4. Poverty -- The Tangle of Poverty -- Poverty and the Body -- Poverty and Low-Wage Work -- Extreme Poverty -- Parenting in Poverty -- Transportation -- Cash, Credit, Debt, and Fines -- 5. Food and Sleep -- 6. Social Connectedness and Support -- 7. Systems as Ecological Adversities -- Silos and Their Consequences |
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Defining Problems Only in Terms of Individuals and Families -- Being Reactive Versus Trying to Be Proactive -- When Services Are Tied to Medicaid Eligibility -- Reproduction of Harm -- Holes in the Safety Net: Delays, Bugs, and Clerical Errors -- 8. The Internalization of Adversity -- Part II Intervention in the Ecological Stream -- 9. Some General Principles of Ecological Intervention -- 10. Ecological Intervention at the Micro Level -- Ecologically Informed Care -- Principles for Ecological Work at the Micro Level -- Ecological Assessment at the Micro Level |
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Listening for Facts and Listening for Meaning -- Process and Content in Ecological Assessment -- Key Ecological Issues for Assessment -- Assessment as Part of Treatment -- Including Ecological Information in Thinking, Discourse, and Documentation -- Moving From Assessment to Intervention -- Practices With Families Dealing With Ecological Challenges -- Be an Alert Witness -- Address Logistical Challenges and Concrete Barriers -- Be Ready to Speak Openly of Issues of Race, Culture, Social Class, and Neighborhood -- Try to Be Comprehensive -- Provide Concrete Supports |
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Advocacy, Co-Advocacy, and Self-Advocacy -- Speak in Natural Language -- Working With the Internal Effects of External Forces -- 11. Ecological Intervention at the Meso Level -- Community-Level Ecological Interventions -- School-Level Ecological Interventions -- The Unconditional Education Model -- 12. Ecological Intervention at the Macro Level -- Addressing Poverty, Neglect, and Maltreatment -- The Child Welfare System and Low-Income Families -- The Costs of a Reactive System -- Some Possible Ways to Swim Upstream -- Large-Scale Policy Initiatives to Support Families |
| Summary |
Unconditional Care in Context reclaims problems of ecological adversity --poverty, racism, housing instability, community disadvantage, food insecurity, and social disconnection -- as central to understanding and working with system-involved children and families. Without attention to these issues, intervention is limited to reactive strategies that require children and families to fail before they can receive support. This book is a call for the field of human service to reconnect with the concrete realities of families' real circumstances and enlarge its focus to include practices that are t |
| Notes |
System-Level Reform and Program Proposals |
| Subject |
Family services.
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Family services
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berrick, Ken
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| ISBN |
9780197506806 |
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0197506801 |
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