Child Protection Practice
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Utterly distinct in portraying the reality of how the job looks, feels, smells and sounds as practitioners move between office, car and home. * Professor David Howe, author of 'Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention' *More details
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Content
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.