In Unconditional Care of Context, John S. Sprinson and Ken Berrick reclaim problems of ecological adversity-poverty, racism, housing instability, community disadvantage, food insecurity, and social disconnection-as central to understanding and working with system involved children and families. Child-serving systems typically define the struggles of high-risk children and their families through a disorder lens of psychiatric diagnosis and family dysfunction, which often minimize the interconnected burdens that confront these families. This volume offers a roadmap for addressing issues of social context and ecological adversity that confront children and families engaged with child and family-serving systems. Moreover, it is a call for the field of human service to reconnect with the concrete realities of families' real circumstances and enlarge its focus to include practices that are ecologically informed.
In Unconditional Care of Context, John S. Sprinson and Ken Berrick reclaim problems of ecological adversity-poverty, racism, housing instability, community disadvantage, food insecurity, and social disconnection-as central to understanding and working with system involved children and families. Child-serving systems typically define the struggles of high-risk children and their families through a disorder lens of psychiatric diagnosis and family dysfunction, which often minimize the interconnected burdens that confront these families. This volume offers a roadmap for addressing issues of social context and ecological adversity that confront children and families engaged with child and family-serving systems. Moreover, it is a call for the field of human service to reconnect with the concrete realities of families' real circumstances and enlarge its focus to include practices that are ecologically informed.
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