Michael Rivera King

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Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care, Social Work, and the FamilyPaperback, 29 April 2022

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Part of Series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Print Length
282 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Routledge
Date Published
29 Apr 2022
ISBN-10
0367566923
ISBN-13
9780367566920

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.

Product Details

Author:
Michael Rivera King
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
29 April 2022
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
0367566923
ISBN-13:
9780367566920
Language:
English
Location:
Oxford
Pages:
282
Publisher:
Weight:
399.16 gm

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