Protecting children from emotional abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice. This book takes readers step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, highlighting essential contemporary research evidence throughout.
Part 1: Understanding introduces the nature and consequences of child neglect and emotional abuse, including up-to-date knowledge about the physiological impact of childhood malnutrition and emotional deprivation.
Part 2: Assessment considers in detail the factors which can contribute to the complexity of the assessment process and explains assessment procedures.
Part 3: Response offers insights into positive interventions, including some innovative modern therapies and family management approaches such as ′PACT′.
Using a series of case studies to make complex skills and knowledge accessible, this is essential reading for students and professionals across disciplines that may come into contact with vulnerable children.
Cuprins
Understanding
Definitions and the roots of oppression
Lessons from inquiries
Child development: physical and physiological factors
Child development: psychosocial factors
Assessment
The fear factor
Siblings and the Cinderella syndrome
Inappropriate roles for children
From assessment to response
Response
Attachment issues
Family support and intervention
Promoting resilience in children
Society, prevention and future directions
Despre autor
Celia started her professional career as a social worker in a local authority children’s team but under the 1968 Seebohm Report reforms became ‘generic’. Subsequently, she focussed on psychiatric social work then for over eleven years was a specialist in child protection employed by the NSPCC. After a break for family commitments, she acquired qualifications in psychology recognised by the British Psychological Association and became an independent play worker. Subsequently, while working as a senior lecturer in university settings she undertook research into the emotional abuse of children, which culminated in a doctoral thesis. She has published extensively in the field of child protection. She continues to research and lecture in child protection particularly in early childhood studies at the University of Northampton.
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