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Child Guidance Centres in Japan - Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family (Hardcover)
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Child Guidance Centres in Japan - Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family (Hardcover)
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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In contemporary Japan, 85% of children in alternative care remain
housed in large welfare institutions, as opposed to family-based
foster care. This publication examines how Japan has been isolated
from global discourse on alternative care, urging a shift in social
work and alternative care policies. As the first ethnographic
account from inside child guidance centres, it makes a key
contribution towards understanding the closed world of Japan's
social services; including the decision-making processes by which a
child is removed from the family and placed into care. In addition,
regional variation in policy implementation for alternative care is
outlined, with reference to detailed case studies and a discussion
around organisational cultures of the child guidance centres. Where
foster care is constructed as anything other than professional, it
is often seen as a threat to the child's family-bond with their
natal parent and therefore not used. Child Guidance Centres in
Japan destabilises this construction of the family-bond as singular
and discrete, highlighting new practices in alternative care. Child
Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care and the Family will be
a vital resource for students, scholars of social work and Japanese
studies, as well as practitioners and lobbyists involved in
alternative care.
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