James K. Whittaker (Board)
School of Social Work, University of Washington
Seattle, USA

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James K. Whittaker is The Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor of Clinical Practice with Children and Families at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle where he has served as a member of senior faculty since 1970.

His research and teaching interests encompass child and family policy and services, and the integration of evidence-based practices into contemporary child & family services. A frequent contributor to the professional literature, Dr. Whittaker is author/co-author/editor of 8 books and nearly 100 peer review papers and book chapters.

In all, Dr. Whittaker’s works have been translated into eight languages and he presently serves on the editorial review boards of a number of social service journals including: Social Service Review (U.S.); The British Journal of Social Work (U.K.); Child & Family Social Work (U.K.) and International Journal of Child & Family Welfare (Belgium). In addition to membership in the Association, Professor Whittaker is an Associated Board member of EUSARF, the European Scientific Association for Residential & Foster Care for Children and Adolescents (Leuven, Belgium).

Recent publications
(Whittaker is author or co-author of the following books and papers)

Kemp, S. P., Whittaker, J. K., & Tracy, E. M. (1997). Person-environment practice: The social ecology of interpersonal helping. New York: Aldine-Transaction. (Japanese edition published)

Pecora, P.J., Whittaker, J.K., Maluccio, A.N., Barth, R.P. with Plotnick, R.D.(2000) The child welfare challenge: Policy, practice and research – 2’nd Edition. New York Aldine-Transaction

Whittaker, J. K. (2000). Family partnerships in residential child care and treatment: Empirical support and practice challenge. In M. Kluger, G. Alexander, & P. Curtis (Eds.), What works in child welfare? (pp.177-187) Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.

Powell, J.Y., Privette, A., Miller, S.D. & Whittaker, J.K. (2001) In quest of an interdisciplinary helping process framework for collaborative practice in systems of care.Journal of Family Social Work, 5, 25-35.

Whittaker, J.K. (2002) The ‘elegant simplicity’ of family preservation practice: legacies & lessons. Family Preservation Journal, 6, 9-29.

Whittaker, J.K. & Maluccio, A.N. (2002) Re-thinking ‘child placement’: a reflective essay, Social Service Review, 76, 108-134. (Reprinted in Italian: Le risposte per l’infanziaall’esterno della famiglia negli Usa: una revisione critica. Studi Zancan: Politiche e servisi alle persone Novembre/decembre n.6-2002: 36-80).

Whittaker, J.K. (2002) The practice-research nexus in social work: problems and prospects [Essay review of S.A. Kirk and W.J. Reid (2002) Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal. New York: Columbia University Press.] Social Service Review, 76, 686-694.

Whittaker, J.K., Greene, K., Schubert, D., Blum,R., Cheng,K., Blum,K., Reed,N., Scott,K., Roy, R. and S.A.Savas) (in press) “Integrating evidence-based practice in the voluntary child mental health agency: a template for clinical and organizational change”, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Whittaker, J.K. (in press), Creating ‘prosthetic environments’ for vulnerable children: emergent cross-national challenges for traditional child & family services practice In Grietens, H., Hellinckx, W. & Vandemeulebroecke, L. (Eds.) (in press) In the Best Interests of the Child: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Whittaker, J.K. (in press). Assessing the effectiveness of residential care in the U.S.: issues and challenges. In C. McAuley, P.J. Pecora and W. Rose (Eds.) Enhancing the Well-Being of Children and Families through Effective Interventions: U.K. and U.S.A. Evidence for Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.