Rethinking child protection and adoption: achieving social justice in practice

Child abuse reporting: rethinking child protection.

Rethinking the paradigm for child protection.

Mounting pressures on the nation's system for helping children who are abused and neglected have prompted new efforts to reform the child protective services (CPS) system to better protect children's safety. As this article explains, current reform efforts are focusing on the "front end" of the system, in which reports of abuse and neglect are screened and investigated, and caseworkers recommen...

Achieving care and social justice for people with dementia.

This article draws on two studies that have used an ethic of care analysis to explore lay, nursing and social work care for people with dementia. It discusses the political as well as the practice application of ethic of care principles and highlights the necessity to understand both what people do and the meanings with which such practices are imbued in order to identify ;good care' and the re...

Towards achieving lasting healthcare reform: rethinking the American social contract.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. July 4, 1776.1

Establishing a child rights, health equity, and social justice-based practice of pediatrics.

From the University of Florida, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; Program of Social Sciences and Health, FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Child Rights Education for Professionals (CRED-PRO), IICRD, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Observatory of Child Rights, National University, Bogota, Colombia; Department...