Child guidance centres in Japan : alternative care, social work, and the family /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Series: | The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
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Add Tag | Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0429773285 9780429773297 0429773293 9780429773273 0429773277 9780429430541 042943054X 9780429773280 |
Child guidance centres in Japan : alternative care, social work, and the family /