Social Work with Children
Published on 29. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 222 pages
978-0-333-65857-4 (ISBN)
Description
How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and other challenging questions, setting out the principles and practice of social work with children and demonstrating the diversity of the work through carefully chosen case material. It will be essential reading for all social workers in training and practice involved with children.
Reviews / Votes
'This is research made accessible and relevant for social work practice. The authors' style is fluent and direct as befits a book which is concerned with intelligent, informed and sensitive intervention. I liked Social Work with Children; it is readable, compassionate and full of helpful insights. As a book for students, it usefully summarizes legal and policy frameworks, particularly with reference to the Children Act, and points to their relevance for practice. It thus provides a coherent account of good child care in one easy-to-read volume.' - Child and Family Social WorkMore details
Edition
1998
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-65857-4 (9780333658574)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-14043-5
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
MARIAN BRANDON is Lecturer in Social Work and Director of Post Qualifying Studies at the University of East Anglia.
GILLIAN SCHOFIELD is Lecturer in Social Work and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia.
LIZ TRINDER is Lecturer in Social Work Research at the University of East Anglia.
GILLIAN SCHOFIELD is Lecturer in Social Work and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia.
LIZ TRINDER is Lecturer in Social Work Research at the University of East Anglia.
Content
Introduction.- PART 1: THE CONTEXT OF WORKING WITH CHILDREN Child Care Policy, Children's Rights and the Children Act.- Age and Understanding: The Developmental Framework.- PART 2: WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN PRACTICE The Voice of the Child in Practice.- Working with Children in Need and in Need of Protection.- Children who are the Subject of Care and Adoption Proceedings in the Courts.- Children Looked after by the Local Authority.- Children and Youth Justice.- Conclusion.