Children's Rights and Social Work [Paperback]

This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work. It guides social work professionals and students through the history of children's rights. It also includes a call for a paradigm shift from a focus on the right to nurturance to the right to self-determination, as well as a contrasting look at children's rights in the West versus the rest of the world.Introduction.- Social Work and Human Rights.- The History of Children's Rights.- Social Work and Children's Rights: A Theoretical and Ethical View.- Social Work and Children's Rights: Implications for Practice.- Social Work and Children's Rights: Implications for Research.- Appendix I: Convention on the Rights of the Child.- Bibliography.Asher Ben-Arieh is a Professor of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Director of the Haruv Institute in Jerusalem. He served for 20 years as the Associate Director of Israels National Council for the Child.  From 1990 to 2011 he was the founding editor-in-chief of the annual State of the Child in Israel . He is a leading international expert on social indicators, particularly those related to child well-being. He initiated and coordinated the International Project Measuring and Monitoring Children Well-Being , and was among the founding members of the International Society for Children Indicators (ISCI). Currently, Professor Ben-Arieh is one of the PIs of the multi-national, multi-million International Study of Childrens Well-being (ISCWeB) research project. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Child Indicators Research journal (CIR) and the Child Well Being: Indicators and Research book series.