Family Support as Reflective Practice

Foreword; 1. Family Support: From Description to Reflection by Pat Dolan, John Pinkerton, Queen's University Belfast, and John Canavan, Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, Galway; Section A: Engaging with Policy and Organisation; 2. School as a Base for Family Support Services by Ilan Katz, Children and Young People's Unit, London; 3. Family Support as Community-Based Practice: Considering a Community Capacity Framework for Family Support Provision by Robert J. Chaskin, Chapin Hall Centre for Children, University of Chicago; 4. Supporting Families through Local Government: A Danish Case Study by Peter Steen Jensen and Rene Junker, Municipality of Odense, Denmar; 5. Implementing Family Support Policy: Empowering Practitioners by Alex Wright, Glasgow University; 6. A Comparative Perspective: Exploring the Space for Family Support by Michelle Millarm NUI, Galway; Section B: Using concepts, frameworks and tools; 7. Safeguarding Children Through Supporting Families by Ruth Gardner, Royal Holloway College, London; 8. Youth Advocacy: Programming Justice-Focused Intervention: Family Support Intervention by Jeff Fleischer, Youth Advocacy Programme, and Judy Warner; 9. Supporting families with disabled children: A Case Study by Rosemary Kilpatrick; 10. Enhancing Support for Young People in Need: Reflections on Informal and Formal Sources of Help by Pat Dolan and Brian McGrath; 11. Cultural Competence, Cultural Sensitivity and Family Support by Fatima Husain; 12. Reframing Practice as Family Support - Leaving Care by John Pinkerton; 13. Assessment, Intervention and Self Appraisal Tools for Family Support by Pat Dolan; 14. Culturally Appropriate Family Support Practice: Working with Asian Populations by Monit Cheung and Patrick Leung; Section C: Advancing Evaluation; 15. Developing an outcome Evaluation Framework for use by Family Support Programs by Charles Bruner; 16. School- and Family-level Income Effects in a Randomized Controlled Prevention Trial: A Multilevel Analysis by W. Todd Abraham and Daniel W. Russell, Institute for Social Behavioral Research, Iowa State University, Max Guyll, Linda Trudeau, Catherine Goldberg-Lillehoj and Richard Spoth, Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa State University; 17. Towards an Inclusive Approach to Family Support Evaluation by Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford; 18. Reflecting for Action: The Future of Family Support by John Canavan.