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Product Description: This text argues that the focus on child protection as the way to assure child welfare is inappropriate for many children. Posing community approaches to child welfare as a more appropriate alternative to children whose family has failed to provide adequate care, it argues that these can be more child-centred and contribute more fully to the development of children as well-adjusted individuals who can become better prepared to assume their roles as good citizens once they reach adulthood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The aim of this book is to bring together contributions from researchers in Canada, Britain and Australia. The chapters on Canada point to the interaction of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in influencing particular kinds of adjustment in child victims of sexual abuse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The chapters in this study reflect 15 years of research in the Canadian province of Alberta, a region which has the highest suicide rate in young males in Canada. The book attempts to answer questions such as: what meanings and values do contrasted groups attach to the concept of suicide?; is the greater prevalence of suicidal behaviour in the young reflected in the meanings they attach to suicidal actions?; are young people experiencing more stress than the older generation?; do some forms of child abuse, particularly sexual abuse, have a sequel in suicidal behaviours and related mental health problems in young adult women, and in adolescent males and females; are the struggles for homosexual identity associated with suicidal behaviours in young males; and the role of poor self-esteem...read more