Table of Contents

Foreword, by Rosemary Sarri Acknowledgments Introduction and Conceptual Framework, by Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook, and Janet L. Finn Part I: Exploring Changing Discourses of Childhood and Youth 1. Making Trouble: Representations of Social Work, Youth, and Pathology, by Janet L. Finn 2. Missing Children: Representing Children Away from Placement, by Lynn M. Nybell 3. It Ain't as Simple as It Seems: Risky Youths in School, Morality, and Service Markets, by Linwood H. Cousins 4. "Stop the Superjail for Kids": Youth Activism to Reclaim Childhood in the Juvenile Justice System, by Jennifer Tilton 5. Good Mothers/Teen Mothers: Claiming Rights and Responsibilities, by Deborah Freedman Lustig 6. The Well-Being of Children and the Question of Attachment, by Kerrie Ghenie and Charlie Wellenstein Part II: Contexts and Settings 7. Childhood by Geography: Toward a Framework of Rights, Responsibilities, and EntitlementsJeffrey J. Shook 8. From "Youth Home" to "Juvenile Detention": Constructing Disciplined Children in Detroit, by Luke Bergmann 9. Educating All Our Children, by Ruth Zweifler 10. Constructing Ability and Disability Among Preschoolers in the Crestview Headstart Program, by Patricia A. Jessup 11. Children and Youth in a Medicalized World: Young People's Agency in Mental Health Treatment, by Ben Stride-Darnley 12. Accounting for Risk: Children and Youth in Community-based Reform, by Lynn M. Nybell 13. At Risk for Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Rethinking the "Normal" Middle-Class Family, by Rachel Heiman Part III: Reinventing Social Work with Children and Youth 14. Child's-Eye View, by Janet L. Finn 15. On Project SpeakOUT, by Derrick Jackson 16. The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project: A Case Study in Law and Social Justice, by Maryam Ahranjani 17. "You May Even be President of the United States One Day"? Challenging Commercialized Feminism in Programming for Girls in Juvenile Justice, by Sara Goodkind 18. Youth Uprising: Gritty Youth Leadership Development and Communal Transformation, by Jennifer Tilton 19. Young People as Leaders in Conflict Resolution, by Charles D. Garvin 20. Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project: Foster Youth as Teachers to Transform Social Work, by Lori Fryzel and Jamie Lee Evans Afterword About the Contributors Index

Promotional Information

Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation marks a fresh approach in social work literature. Carefully grounding its research in the sociology of childhood and presenting fresh and exciting new approaches to social work practice with children and families, this volume makes an excellent text for social work courses on policy and practice with children and families. It reflects contemporary cultural, political, and economic realities of children and provides an excellent discussion of the historical context of the social construction of childhood. A groundbreaking piece of work. -- Elizabeth D. Hutchison, Virginia Commonwealth University This book is entirely unique in its inclusion of practice content and its coverage of diverse issues, populations, and settings. It is innovative in that it provides both historical and philosophical content while attempting to maintain a practice oriented (or practitioner-oriented) focus. In addition, the sustained attention devoted to the interplay between the macro, mezzo, and micro dimensions of practice is unusual. A very compelling case is made regarding present day 'de-contextualization' within social work practice, and the editors effectively provide information and ideas that prompt critical reflection. -- Leanne Wood Charlesworth, Nazareth College of Rochester, and editor of Challenges of Living: A Multidimensional Working Model for Social Workers

About the Author

Lynn M. Nybell is professor of social work at Eastern Michigan University. Jeffrey J. Shook is assistant professor of social work and law at the University of Pittsburgh. Janet L. Finn is professor of social work at the University of Montana. She is the author of three books and serves on the editorial board of Affilia.

Reviews

The topics are refreshingly unique and thought provoking and encourage insight in addressing the challenges that children and youth face today. Choice A welcome addition to the literature and a thoughtful contribution to social work practice. -- Steven Walker British Journal of Social Work