Principles Of Child Protection
Management And Practice
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2004
171 pages
978-0-335-22611-5 (ISBN)
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Principles of Child Protection examines the topical and growing field of child protection theory and practice. The author reviews the literature on social and cultural definitions and patterns of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and the nature of childhood itself, and examines the forces that have helped to determine current multiagency child protection management.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 01 The evolving social construction of child abuse and child sexual abuse
- Introduction
- Definitions of child abuse
- Reification of the term 'child abuse'
- The broadening of the dimensions of child abuse
- Why the need to define child abuse?
- The evolving social construction of child sexual abuse
- The development of contemporary concerns about child abuse and child sexual abuse
- The rediscovery of child sexual abuse
- Problems stemming from societal recognition of child sexual abuse
- Definitions of child sexual abuse
- The influence of special interest groups on definitions of child sexual abuse
- The sociological perspective
- The feminist perspective
- The systems perspective
- The public health perspective
- The psychiatric perspective
- The interactionist perspective
- Incidence and prevalence of child sexual abuse
- Defining incidence and prevalence
- Difficulties in the interpretation of incidence and prevalence studies
- The epidemiological value of incidence and prevalence studies
- Statistical estimations of incidence and prevalence
- Summary
- Chapter 02 The evolving social construction of childhood
- Introduction
- Constructions of childhood
- Sociological construction of childhood
- Sociology of the body
- Periodization of childhood
- Contemporary social constructions of childhood
- The modern child as scientifically measured
- The late/advanced modern child and consumer culture
- The contemporary welfare child
- Notions of childhood innocence, social anxiety and protectionism
- Children's rights
- Summary
- Chapter 03 The child protection discourse
- Introduction
- Periodization of the professional regulation of child abuse and child sexual abuse
- The development of the child protection discourse
- The legal model
- The backlash against child protection
- Challenges to child protection practice
- Secondary victimization
- Impediments to partnership
- The 'at risk' discourse and assessment model
- Defensive practice
- Identification of chronic child abuse
- Summary
- Chapter 04 Interagency multidisciplinary work
- Introduction
- The interagency multidisciplinary approach to child protection
- The Baglow multidimensional model
- Inherent difficulties of interagency multidisciplinary work
- Level 1: surface problems in the interagency multidisciplinary approach
- Tensions and stresses
- Practice conflicts
- Communication difficulties
- Barriers to cooperation
- Level 2: underlying theoretical problems
- Objectivity and decision-making
- Organizational systems in child protection
- Key criticisms of current interagency multidisciplinary work
- The need for subjectivism
- Gaps in services
- Eligibility criteria for services
- Imbalance in the system
- Research and evaluation considerations
- Summary
- Chapter 05 Organizational perspectives of contemporary social work
- Introduction
- What is an organization?
- Organizational perspectives
- The bureaucratic organization
- The human relations school perspective
- The systems perspective
- The feminist perspective
- The anti-racist perspective
- Contemporary social influences on child protection organization
- Postmodern influences on organizations involved in child protection
- Pluralism
- Participation
- Power
- Performance
- Critical perspectives for social work
- The ecological model
- A version of critical theory for social work
- Summary
- Chapter 06 Implications for the future
- Introduction
- A broader welfare perspective for children and families
- The preventative approach to child welfare services
- More reflexive practice
- A Commissioner for Children and a Minister for Children
- Chapter 07 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
