Child Welfare ― Perspectives from Social Work

Child Welfare is comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. This textbook provides a single source for all material necessary to providing a contextual child welfare course. The material in this text is designed to meet the needs of social work students entering the child welfare workforce, as well as any other area of direct or indirect practice with children and families. Unlike other texts, which emphasize either theory or practice, this book combines history, theory and practice. The authors integrate different practice perspectives to teach social workers how to engage children and families at the micro, mezzo and macro levels.

Dr. Krase earned her Ph.D. in Social Work, her Juris Doctor and her Master in Social Work from Fordham University. She co-wrote the book, Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Practical Guide for Social Workers with Ken Lau and Dick Morse. She previously served as the Associate Director of Fordham University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Family and Child. Dr. Krase also served as the Clinical Social Work Supervisor for the Family Defense Clinic at New York University Law School.

Dr. Hamilton has been teaching in higher education since 2000; as an adjunct instructor from 2000-2008 and full time since 2009. .Dr. Hamilton has worked in the social work field for almost 20 years and has experience in child welfare, adoptions, medical, and psychiatric social work. Prior to teaching full time, she worked in private practice as a psychotherapist specializing in family and childhood issues. While in private practice, she maintained a connection to public child welfare by evaluating, writing reports, and testifying as an expert witness for children in foster care.