Child Protection Practice

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-24283-8
Verlag: Macmillan Education

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Book, Gewicht: 391 g

How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe? Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality of practice within life's most personal spaces, and offers a rare insight into the lived experience of working with vulnerable children, their parents and other carers.An inspiring declaration of the need for a new, intimate approach to child protection, this ground-breaking book lays the foundations of skilful, authoritative practice. It is a must for Social Work student and practitioners within this challenging field.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, Harry

Norton, Jim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Knocking on the Door of History.- The Development of Child Protection Policy and Practice.- Streets, Housing Estates, Doorsteps: Getting to the Home.- The Home Visit: Crossing the Threshold.- Bedrooms, Kitchens and More intimate spaces.- Relating to Children.- The Importance of Touch in Protecting Children.- The Car as a Space for Therapeutic Practice.- Hospitals, Office Interviews and the Emotional Complexity of Practice.- Working with Mothers.- Working with Fathers.- Working with Resistance, Good Authority and Involuntary Clients.- Multi-Agency Working and Relationship-Based Practice.- Spaces for Reflection and Organisational support.- Intimate Child Protection Practice.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

HARRY FERGUSON Chair in Social Work, School of Sociology & Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education, University of Nottingham, UK.