Child Guidance Centres in Japan : Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family Hardback
by Michael (Ashinaga Association, UK) Rivera King
Part of the Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies series
Hardback
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:282 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 23 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781138365940
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:282 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 23 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138365940
