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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Introduction (Jeannine Carriere and Susan Strega) Chapter 1: Children in the Centre: Indigenous Perspectives on Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice (Qwul'sih'yah'maht [Robina Thomas] and Kundouqk [Jacquie Green]) Chapter 2: Meeting Here and NowA": Reflections on Racial and Cultural Difference in Social Work Encounters (Donna Jeffery) Chapter 3: Race Matters: Social Justice not Assimilation or Cultural Competence (Sarah Maiter) Chapter 4: Widening the Circle: Countering Institutional Racism in Child Welfare (Joan Pennell) Chapter 5: The Practice of Child Welfare in Indigenous Communities: A Perspective for the Non-Indigenous Social Worker (Christopher Walmsley) Chapter 6: Metis Experiences of Social Work Practice (Cathy Richardson) Chapter 7: What Parents Say: Service Users' Theory and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice (Gary Dumbrill and Winnie Lo) Chapter 8: Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Assessment, Risk Assessment and Record-Keeping (Susan Strega) Chapter 9: Supporting Youth in Care through Anti-Oppressive Practice (April Feduniw) Chapter 10: Reconstructing Neglect and Emotional Maltreatment from an Anti-Oppressive Perspective (Henry Parada) Chapter 11: Oppressing Mothers: Protection Practices in Situations of Child Sexual Abuse (Julia Krane and Rosemary Carlton) Chapter 12: Taking Resistance Seriously: A Response-Based Approach to Social Work in Cases of Violence against Indigenous Women (Cathy Richardson and Allan Wade) Chapter 13: Healing Versus Treatment: Substance Misuse, Child Welfare and Indigenous Families (Betty Bastien, Jeannine Carriere and Susan Strega) Chapter 14: Engaging With Fathers in Child Welfare (Leslie Brown, Susan Strega, Lena Dominelli, Christopher Walmsley and Marilyn Callahan) Chapter 15: Considerations for Cultural Planning and Indigenous Adoptions (Jeannine Carriere and Raven Sinclair) Chapter 16: Practicing From the Heart (Carolyn Peacock)
