Behind from the Start
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-045903-1 (ISBN)
Close to six million children ages five and under live in poverty and that number continues to grow. Research has shown that the experience of poverty in the first years of life is particularly harmful, blunting physical and brain development, increasing risk for chronic health issues and injury, and limiting lifelong capacity for learning and success. Behind from the Start reveals that what began as the War on Poverty has, over the course of the past five decades, been contorted into a War on the Poor in which the lives of America's poorest children remain heartbreakingly grim, as are their prospects for a healthy and successful future. Drawing from fields as wide-ranging as media studies, psychology, social welfare, public policy, neuroscience, and education as well as her own considerable personal experience, Lessing makes a forceful case for action to break out of this self-fulfilling cycle.
Lenette Azzi-Lessing, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Work, Leadership, and Public Policy at Wheelock College, Boston. She is the founder and director of Wheelock's Graduate Certificate Program in Early Childhood Mental Health and faculty leader of the college's South Africa Partnership for Early Childhood Development. She joined the faculty after more than 25 years as a front-line social worker, CEO, and policy advocate. Dr. Azzi-Lessing founded one of the nation's first programs for drug- and alcohol-affected families in the child welfare system, and was twice awarded the Commissioner's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Foreword, Lisbeth Schorr
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Stuck at the Bottom: Poor Policies for Poor Families
Chapter 3. From the War on Poverty to the War on Poor Families
Chapter 4: Poverty is Poison: Multiple Assaults on Young Lives
Chapter 5. It Takes a Firestorm: How the Child Welfare System Harms Children and Perpetuates the Cycle
Chapter 6. The Emperor's Old Clothes: The False Promise of Simple Solutions
Chapter 7. We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Stronger, Better Strategies for Breaking the Cycle
Chapter 8: From Neurons to National Policy: Using What We Know to Break the Cycle of Disadvantage
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.01.2017 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 163 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-045903-4 / 0190459034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-045903-1 / 9780190459031 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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