Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family Contributor(s): Rivera King, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138365947 ISBN-13: 9781138365940 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Regional Studies - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
Dewey: 362.730 |
LCCN: 2020025047 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.05 lbs) 282 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |