Legal reforms affecting child & youth services

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Legal reforms affecting child & youth services

Gary B. Melton, guest editor

(Child & youth services, v. 5, no. 1/2)

Haworth Press, c1982

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Legal reforms affecting child and youth services

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Includes bibliographies and indexes

Contents of Works

  • Legal reforms affecting child & youth services / Gary B. Melton
  • Mental health implications of the juvenile justice standards / Stephen J. Morse, Charles H. Whitebread, II
  • Youth advocacy in the juvenile court / William S. Davidson II, John A. Saul
  • Who owns the children? / James Garbarino ... [et al.]
  • Procedural justice in family court / Gary B. Melton, E. Allan Lind
  • Developmental factors and competence to make informed treatment decisions / Lois A. Weithorn
  • Larry P. and PASE / Donald Bersoff
  • The least restrictive environment / Douglas Biklen

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Legal and behavioral science scholars examine the significance of the recent changes in laws affecting child and youth services and the conflicts those changes have engendered. Providers of child and youth services now can have at their fingertips the most recent information on changes in the law related to consent to treatment by children, special education, child abuse policy, procedural reform in divorce custody resolution, and juvenile justice reform. Some of the timely issues addressed in this highly acclaimed volume include the fall of the rehabilitative ideal in the juvenile justice system, the increasing concern for juvenile's procedural rights, child custody disputes, and laws regulating educational and treatment services. Legal Reforms Affecting Child and Youth Services is an essential volume for providers of services in education, pediatrics, mental health, juvenile justice, and child welfare. The authors integrate legal analyses of key concepts with discussion of potential behavioral science contributions to formulation and implementation of legal reforms. In each instance, the implications of these reforms for service delivery systems are explored with attention to gaps in available research and ambiguities in the existing law.

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Contents Legal Reforms Affecting Child and Youth Services: An Introduction Mental Health Implications of the Juvenile Justice Standards Youth Advocacy in the Juvenile Court: A Clash of Paradigms Who Owns the Children? An Ecological Perspective on Public Policy Affecting Children Procedural Justice in Family Court: Does the Adversary Model Make Sense? Developmental Factors and Competence to Make Informed Treatment Decisions Larry P. and PASE: Judicial Report Cards on the Validity of Individual Intelligence Tests The Least Restrictive Environment: Its Application to Education Subject Index Author Index

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