Social Work with Children, Youth, & Families  Tags: social_work child_welfare children families  

Websites, encyclopedias, and handbooks can help you:

• get brief, factual information to supplement your research.
• Give you a good overview of a topic.
• Help you get started with ideas for your research.

A special note to our off-site students: if you need to use any books in our reference collection, we would be happy to e-mail you selected chapters from the books. E-mail us and let us know if you would like us to send you any chapters.

Administration for children and families

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Child Welfare Information Gateway

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

The Future of Children

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Office of Family Assistance

Office of Juvenille Justice and Delinquency Prevention

New! This quintessential Social Work encyclopedia features entries by Karen Kayser, Demetrius Iatridis, James Lubben, Othelia Lee, and former GSSW Dean June Hopps. There are many chapters relevant to social work with children and families. This four-volume work is now available online.

The Social Work Library has a number of reference books with brief, informative chapters on children and families. We encourage you to browse the reference section or look through our onlinebooks. Here are just a few that we recommend:

Online Reference Books:

• Handbook of Stress, Trauma, & The Family  (Online Resource: BC Community Only) Catherall, 2004


• Handbook of Evidence-Based Treatment Manuals for Children and Adolescents (Online Resource: BC Community Only)


• Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents. (Online Resource: BC Community Only) Springer, 2008.


• Integrating family therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory. (Online Resource: BC Community Only) APA, 1995.


• Assessment of Family Violence: a Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners. (Online Resource: BC Community Only) APA, 2005.

 Books in the Reference Section of the Library:

• Adolescent Psychology (Lerner and Steinberg, 2009) Reference BF 724.H33

• Assessment of Family Violence (Feindler, Rathus, and Silver, 2003) Reference HV6626.F45

 

• Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare (Sowers and Dulmus, 2008) Reference HV40.C635

 

• Encyclopedia of Child Abuse (Clark, 2001) Reference HV 6626.5 .C57

 

• Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence (Jackson, 2007) Reference HV 6626.E534

 

• Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children & Adolescents (Kazdin & Weisz, 2003) RJ504.E95

 

• Work & Family in America (Stebbins, 2001) HD4904.25.S8