Child guidance centres in Japan : alternative care and the family / Michael Rivera King.
- 作者： King, Michael Rivera.
- 出版： Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : Routledge 2022.
- 主題： Children--Institutional care--Japan. , Foster home care--Japan. , Child welfare--Japan. , Social service--Japan. , Families--Japan.
- ISBN： 978-0-367-56692-0: GBP38.99 、 978-1-138-36594-0 (hbk.)
- 一般註：Originally published: 2021.
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005288353 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
"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 as practitioners and lobbyists involved in alternative care"--