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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWL EDGMENTS -- Introduction: On Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents / Diaz, Mery F. / Shepard, Benjamin Heim -- PART I: Ethnographies, Narrative Inquiries, and Life Stories -- Chapter One. From Disempowerment to Self- Belief: A Center of Hope for Vulnerable Youth in Cape Town / Johnson, Sharon -- Chapter Two. Aging Out and on My Own: Stories of Youth Transitions Out of Foster Care / Gonzalez, Sabrina -- Chapter Three. Dreaming Despite Status: Immigrant Youth in Contingent Migration Contexts / Ruszczyk, Stephen -- Chapter Four. "Hear Me": Collaborating with Youth to Address Sexual Exploitation / Jackson, Margot K. / Caine, Vera / Huber, Janice / Vastani, Muneerah Amin -- Chapter Five. In Between Worlds: Narrating Ecological Heritage Practices for Teenage Wellness / Baines, Kristina -- Chapter Six. Neighborhood Surveillance and the Prison Assembly Line / Milton, Trevor B. -- Chapter Seven. Considering Inequalities: Experiences in Part- Time Youth Work / Besen-Cassino, Yasemin -- PART II: Autoethnography and Storytelling -- Chapter Eight. Finding Justice: Transforming Schools with the Children We Serve / Diaz, Mery F. -- Chapter Nine. Fitting In, Letting Go, and Other Common Concerns for Children with Disabilities / Rings, Sherri L. -- Chapter Ten. Between Life Stories and the Strug gle for Homeless Youth / Shepard, Benjamin Heim -- Chapter Eleven. Childhood and the Politics of Care / Palley, Elizabeth -- Chapter Twelve. Living on the Frontline: Reality- Based Drug Education in the Era of Black Lives Matter / Otero, Jerry -- Chapter Thirteen. Poor Mothers, Poor Children: The Feminization of Poverty in Rural India / Fernandes, Gretta M. -- PART III: Practice Reflections and Case Narratives -- Chapter Fourteen. Understand the Brain, Understand Our Children / Courtney, Deborah -- Chapter Fifteen. Beyond Deficits: Shifting Perspectives in Child and Youth Mental Health / Jackson, Margot K. -- Chapter Sixteen. Shifting Identities, Shifting Meanings: Adolescent Siblings and Grief / Hyatt, Erica Goldblatt -- Chapter Seventeen. Creating Spaces for Sam: A Story of Healing Trauma Through Narrative Means and Art Therapy / McDonald, Susan / Wise, Stephanie -- Chapter Eighteen. Stories of Youth and Family Navigating a New Frontier of Social Media / Judd, Rebecca G. / May, Benjamin T. -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

"In Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents, social workers, sociologists, researchers, and helping professionals share engaging and evocative stories of practice that aim to center the young client's story. Drawing on work with a variety of disadvantaged populations in New York City and around the world, they seek to raise awareness of the diversity of the individual experiences of youth. They make use of a variety of narrative approaches to offer new perspectives on a range of critical health care, mental health, and social issues that shape the lives of children and adolescents. The book considers the narratives we tell about the lives and experiences of children and adolescents and proposes counternarratives that challenge dominant ideas about childhood. Contributors examine the environments and structures that shape the lives of children and youth from an ecological lens. From their stories emerge questions about how those working with young clients might respond to a changing landscape: How do we define and construct childhood? How do poverty and inequality impact children's health and welfare? How is childhood lived at the intersection of race, class, and gender? How can practitioners engage children and adolescents through culturally responsive and democratic processes? Offering new frameworks for reflecting on social work practice, the essays in Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents also serve as a vehicle for exploration of children's agency and voice."--

As aggressive cultural and legislative attacks on abortion rights and access continue, we call upon social workers to pursue the liberatory aims of the reproductive justice (RJ) movement. We argue that the RJ framework, rooted in feminist theory, aligns with social work's social justice ethos and goals, appropriately guiding advocacy and intervention. After outlining the central aims and tenets of the RJ movement, we consider policies that impair RJ and those that could promote RJ, focusing on enhancing body sovereignty, childbearing, and parenting. We conclude with concrete recommendations for how social workers can pursue RJ professionally and personally.