Download or read book Culturally Competent Public Child Welfare Practice written by Krishna Samantrai and published by Brooks Cole. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a model of practice that stems from the goodness-of-fit between the child's needs (physical, developmental, social-emotional) and the parent's ability to adequately meet those needs according to the prevailing norms of society. Samantrai integrates policy, human behavior theories, issues in practice, skills of practice, multiculturalism, child abuse and neglect, and she develops and refines these concepts into the skills specifically needed by those working in public child welfare.