Description: Child Guidance Centres in Japan : Alternative Care and the Family, Hardcover by King, Michael Rivera, ISBN 1138365947, ISBN-13 9781138365940, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK "In contemporary Japan, 85% of children in alternative care remain housed in large welfare institutions, as opposed to family-based foster care. This publication examines how Japan has been isolated from global discourse on alternative care, urging a shift in social work and alternative care policies. As the first ethnographic account from inside child guidance centres, it makes a key contribution towards understanding the closed world of Japan's social services; including the decision-making processes by which a child is removed from the family and placed into care. In addition, regional variation in policy implementation for alternative care is outlined, with reference to detailed case studies and a discussion around organisational cultures of the child guidance centres. Where foster care is constructed as anything other than professional, it is often seen as a threat to the child's family-bond with their natal parent and therefore not used. Child Guidance Centres in Japan destabilises this construction of the family-bond as singular and discrete, highlighting new practices in alternative care. Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care and the Family will be a vital resource for students, scholars of social work and Japanese studies, as well aspractitioners and lobbyists involved in alternative care"--
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Book Title: Child Guidance Centres in Japan : Alternative Care and the Family
Number of Pages: 262 Pages
Publication Name: Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 234 mm
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 522 g
Subject Area: Family Sociology, Children & Family
Author: Michael Rivera King
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Format: Hardcover
