Woodslane | Book - 9781853022753

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ISBN-13: 9781853022753
Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Edited by Eric Sainsbury
Price: AUD $56.99
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Local release date: 14/11/1994
Format: Paperback (100.00mm X 100.00mm) 250 pages Weight: 360g
Categories: Teenagers: advice for parents [VFXC1]

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Google Preview: This book illustrates how social workers approach their work in cases where children are ''at risk'', the responses they receive, the children's and parents' experiences and reactions, and the stresses involved for all parties. It illustrates the skills needed in direct work with young children and in assessing the nature, outcomes and unmet needs within abusive situations. By presenting a wide range of brief case studies, it allows discussion about why social work practice sometimes succeeds, sometimes fails, and about the training, support and supervision which social workers need in ensuring that their work is relevant to the needs of children and parents alike.; Direct work with young children in situations of neglect and injury; the experience of sexual abuse; social work across racial, cultural and language differences; administrative, professional and interprofessional processes in child protection; the stresses of social work in child protection; being and becoming an adult.; ` gives detailed accounts of what is often know as `direct work' with children allowing readers to see for themselves what this intensive work with abused children requires we are privy to the content of sessions and the thoughts and judgements of the social workers as they unfold. Because of this the instructional value of these contemporaneous accounts is immense.'; Google Preview content