Youth Leaving Foster Care - Smith, Wendy B. (Director of Instructional Enhancement, Director of Instructional Enhancement, University of Southern California School of Social Work, Los Angeles, CA)

This is the first comprehensive text to focus on youth emerging from care, offering a new theoretical framework to guide students, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. The book features case vignettes, recommendations for practice and programs, and a multidimensional perspective on the effects of maltreatment on development, and common mental health disorders and treatment.