Children's Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth

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'This accessible, well-argued book impressed me, as a reader whose working life has majored on developing, championing and promoting human rights, particularly of children and young people. This book would be invaluable in initial and continued professional training and development. Highly recommended, and will bear more than one reading.' -- Maggie Atkinson, Human Rights Education Review 'This is a must read for both the novice and expert practitioner of child rights. It is an important resource for educators in all professional domains. I will particularly use it to orient medical students and residents to child rights-based approaches to the health and well-being of children.' -- Jeffrey Goldhagen, University of Florida, USA 'In this era of growing authoritarianism and push back against children's rights, Collins offers a powerful analysis of the original values and intent of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and builds on 35 years of subsequent experience to argue the imperative for building a culture of respect for children's rights through professional practice. It could not be more timely.' -- Gerison Lansdown, International Child Rights Consultant, UK 'In this book, Tara Collins makes a breakthrough in the narrative on children's rights by shifting the focus from legalistic approaches to embedding it as a footprint in a rights-based and child-centered humanist praxis. In emphasizing the importance of a relational and intergenerational dialogue in international children's rights, she provides both conceptual and practical considerations to inform and guide professional practitioners in their engagement with children and adolescents in the spirit of Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Highly recommended as a guide for childcare professionals, social workers, parents, teachers and child rights advocates.' -- Victor P. Karunan, former Chief, Adolescent Development and Participation, UNICEF Headquarters, New York and Member, Inter-Generational Advisory Committee, International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership 'In her masterful work, filling a major gap in children's rights literature, Collins argues that it is the business of all professionals, across disciplines, to use a child rights framework. The volume is accessibly written, illustrated with examples from across the globe. A must-read, this is a clarion call for greater action for and with children everywhere.' -- Susan L. Bissell, Harvard School of Public Health, USA 'Based on a relational perspective of children's rights, this book offers a novel, profound and contextualized vision of the foundations of transformative professional practice. For all of us who work directly or indirectly with children and young people, this is essential and enriching.' -- Ana Vergara del Solar, Universidad de Santiago, Chile