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Intro; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Contents; About the Contributors; Part I: The Policy and Program History of Child Protection; Chapter 1: The Successes and Limitations of Contemporary Approaches to Child Protection; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Overview of Child Protection Systems; 1.2.1 Re-referrals and Unmet/Poorly Met Needs of Families Experiencing Vulnerability; 1.2.2 Successes in Statutory Child Protection Services; 1.3 Marginal Reform: Reform at the Margins; 1.3.1 The Rationale for a Public Health Approach
1.3.2 The Problems of Demand, and the Mismatch Between Incidence of Reported Maltreatment and Underlying Prevalence1.4 Conclusions: The Public Health Approach as the Way Forward; References; Chapter 2: Stakeholder's Experiences of the Forensic Child Protection Paradigm; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Child Protection Systems and Their Impact on Key Stakeholders; 2.3 Children and Young People's Perceptions of the Child Protection System; 2.3.1 How Children Experience the System; 2.3.2 What Children and Young People Want While in the System and Those Who Support Them
2.4 Experiences of Parents as Service Users in the Child Protection System2.5 Experiences of Foster Carers; 2.6 Practitioners' Experiences; 2.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Assessing the Outcomes of Alternative Care and Treatment Responses; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Understanding Causal Impacts of Interventions on Outcomes in Child Welfare; 3.2.1 Population; 3.2.2 Intervention; 3.2.3 Comparison; 3.2.4 Outcome; 3.3 What Different Research Designs Can Tell Us; 3.4 The Promise of Public Health Approaches to Child Maltreatment; References
Chapter 4: 'Everybody's Responsibility': Exploring the Challenges of Community Engagement in Child Neglect4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Exploring Lay Constructions: Methodology; 4.3 Constructing Child Neglect; 4.4 Constructing Child Neglect: The Role of the Media; 4.5 Responding to Child Neglect: Constructing the Lay Role; 4.6 Intervening or Interfering: The Lay Dilemma; 4.7 Not Working: Constructing Social Services; 4.8 Conclusions: Reconstructing Services for Children and Families; References; Part II: Conceptualising Public Health Approaches
Chapter 5: Changing and Competing Conceptions of Risk and Their Implications for Public Health Approaches to Child Protection5.1 Introduction; 5.2 From Dangerousness to Risk; 5.3 Risk and Every Child Matters; 5.4 Major Challenges for Public Health Approaches to Child Protection; 5.4.1 Secondary Prevention; 5.4.2 Problem Specificity; 5.4.3 The Identification of Risk; 5.4.4 Surveillance, Confidentiality and Civil Liberties; 5.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Using an Injury Prevention Model to Inform a Public Health Approach to Child Protection; 6.1 Introduction
1.3.2 The Problems of Demand, and the Mismatch Between Incidence of Reported Maltreatment and Underlying Prevalence1.4 Conclusions: The Public Health Approach as the Way Forward; References; Chapter 2: Stakeholder's Experiences of the Forensic Child Protection Paradigm; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Child Protection Systems and Their Impact on Key Stakeholders; 2.3 Children and Young People's Perceptions of the Child Protection System; 2.3.1 How Children Experience the System; 2.3.2 What Children and Young People Want While in the System and Those Who Support Them
2.4 Experiences of Parents as Service Users in the Child Protection System2.5 Experiences of Foster Carers; 2.6 Practitioners' Experiences; 2.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Assessing the Outcomes of Alternative Care and Treatment Responses; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Understanding Causal Impacts of Interventions on Outcomes in Child Welfare; 3.2.1 Population; 3.2.2 Intervention; 3.2.3 Comparison; 3.2.4 Outcome; 3.3 What Different Research Designs Can Tell Us; 3.4 The Promise of Public Health Approaches to Child Maltreatment; References
Chapter 4: 'Everybody's Responsibility': Exploring the Challenges of Community Engagement in Child Neglect4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Exploring Lay Constructions: Methodology; 4.3 Constructing Child Neglect; 4.4 Constructing Child Neglect: The Role of the Media; 4.5 Responding to Child Neglect: Constructing the Lay Role; 4.6 Intervening or Interfering: The Lay Dilemma; 4.7 Not Working: Constructing Social Services; 4.8 Conclusions: Reconstructing Services for Children and Families; References; Part II: Conceptualising Public Health Approaches
Chapter 5: Changing and Competing Conceptions of Risk and Their Implications for Public Health Approaches to Child Protection5.1 Introduction; 5.2 From Dangerousness to Risk; 5.3 Risk and Every Child Matters; 5.4 Major Challenges for Public Health Approaches to Child Protection; 5.4.1 Secondary Prevention; 5.4.2 Problem Specificity; 5.4.3 The Identification of Risk; 5.4.4 Surveillance, Confidentiality and Civil Liberties; 5.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Using an Injury Prevention Model to Inform a Public Health Approach to Child Protection; 6.1 Introduction