Social work and child welfare politics through Nordic lenses

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-200) and index.

Introduction / Hannele Forsberg and Teppo Kröger -- Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families / Guðny Björk Eydal and Teppo Kröger -- A Nordic model in child welfare? / Helena Blomberg ... [et al.] -- From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood / Hannele Forsberg and Aino Ritala-Koskinen -- Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare / Marjo Kuronen and Pia Lahtinen -- Family focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century / Sigrun Juliusdottir -- In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work / Reidun Follesø and Kate Mevik -- Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? / Inger Marii Tronvoll -- Listening to children's experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence / Margareta Hyden -- Now you see them - now you don't: institutions in child protection policy / Tuija Eronen, Riitta Laakso and Tarja Pösö -- Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them / Keith Pringle.