Childhood, youth, and social work in transformation: implications for policy and practice

Foreword / Rosemary Sarri

Introduction and Conceptual Framework / Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook and Janet L. Finn

Pt. I. Exploring Changing Discourses of Childhood and Youth

1. Making Trouble: Representations of Social Work, Youth, and Pathology / Janet L. Finn

2. Missing Children: Representing Children Away from Placement / Lynn M. Nybell

3. It Ain't as Simple as It Seems: Risky Youths in School, Morality, and Service Markets / Linwood H. Cousins

4. "Stop the Superjail for Kids": Youth Activism to Reclaim Childhood in the Juvenile Justice System / Jennifer Tilton

5. Good Mothers/Teen Mothers: Claiming Rights and Responsibilities / Deborah Freedman Lustig

6. Well-Being of Children and the Question of Attachment / Kerrie Ghenie and Charlie Wellenstein

Pt. II. Contexts and Settings

7. Childhood by Geography: Toward a Framework of Rights, Responsibilities, and Entitlements / Jeffrey J. Shook

8. From "Youth Home" to "Juvenile Detention": Constructing Disciplined Children in Detroit / Luke Bergmann

9. Educating All Our Children / Ruth Zweifler

10. Constructing Ability and Disability Among Preschoolers in the Crestview Headstart Program / Patricia A. Jessup

11. Children and Youth in a Medicalized World: Young People's Agency in Mental Health Treatment / Ben Stride-Darnley

12. Accounting for Risk: Children and Youth in Community-based Reform / Lynn M. Nybell

13. At Risk for Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Rethinking the "Normal" Middle-Class Family / Rachel Heiman

Pt. III. Reinventing Social Work with Children and Youth

14. Child's-Eye View / Janet L. Finn

15. On Project SpeakOUT / Derrick Jackson

16. Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project: A Case Study in Law and Social Justice / Maryam Ahranjani

17. "You May Even be President of the United States One Day"? Challenging Commercialized Feminism in Programming for Girls in Juvenile Justice / Sara Goodkind

18. Youth Uprising: Gritty Youth Leadership Development and Communal Transformation / Jennifer Tilton

19. Young People as Leaders in Conflict Resolution / Charles D. Garvin

20. Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project: Foster Youth as Teachers to Transform Social Work / Lori Fryzel and Jamie Lee Evans.