Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence

Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence
Author: Stephen Pizzey
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1846429382

Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the child, make specialist assessments where there are continuing safeguarding concerns (using the Assessment Framework) and plan effective child-centred and outcome-focused interventions. The authors analyse the impact of exposure to a climate of trauma and family violence on a child's bioneurological development and on their capacity to form attachments and to develop and reflect on relationships through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. They bring together the assessment of children in need with the evaluation of significant harm and risk, and potential for rehabilitation, and also explore the application of evidence-based approaches to intervention. This book is an essential tool for all front-line practitioners working with child protection, including social workers, child and adolescent mental health practitioners, police officers, probation workers and domestic violence organizations. It is also suitable for undergraduate, postgraduate and post-qualifying students.

Safeguarding Children

Safeguarding Children
Author: Hedy Cleaver
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2009-11-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0470518847

A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses. Focuses on the methods of identifying children at risk and details what happens at each stage of the social work process Presents a fully multi-disciplinary approach as to how professional groups and services should co-operate to safeguard children Part of the prestigious NSPCC Wiley Series in Safeguarding Children Accompanies the training courses run by the DoH and NSPCC for professionals working with children

Deciding Children's Futures

Deciding Children's Futures
Author: Joyce Scaife
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2024-07-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1040038964

The second edition of Deciding Children’s Futures addresses the thorny task of assessing parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children in the family court. This practitioner’s guide discusses how to create relationships and pose questions that breach natural parental defences to understand their histories, anxieties, and needs. Drawing on practice knowledge, theory, and research findings, it integrates the accounts of parents and children with safeguarding imperatives and government guidance, to enable informed decisions that positively impact children’s futures. Chapters address issues such as drug and alcohol misuse, mental health difficulties and learning disabilities, Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) abuse, and alienation of children, and encourage readers to consider the impact of their own values, histories, and beliefs on the assessment process. This edition is completely updated to reflect all the factors that have impacted assessments for the family court, including updates to case law and procedure rules, devolution of governments, and updates to DSM and ICD diagnostic categories. Providing a comprehensive understanding of assessment for the family court, this user-friendly volume will be of great interest to expert witnesses, social workers, mental health professionals, solicitors, and anyone working in the family court system.

The Child's World

The Child's World
Author: Jan Horwath
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1843105683

Rev. ed. of: The child's world: assessing children in need. 2001.

Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment

Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment
Author: Jane Barlow
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1849050538

Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults. This book sets out to identify 'what works' in preventing emotional maltreatment from recurring.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Child Trauma and Abuse

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Child Trauma and Abuse
Author: Jacqueline S. Feather
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1849050864

`An excellent guide for therapists working with traumatised abused children.'---Amanda Shea Hart, PhD, Child and Family Specialist, Adelaide, South Australia --

The Child's World, Third Edition

The Child's World, Third Edition
Author: Jan Horwath
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784503827

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors. This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children's neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children. Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children. The importance of inter-professional working is emphasised throughout.

Effective Social Work with Children and Families

Effective Social Work with Children and Families
Author: Peter Unwin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857027301

Covering a core topic on the curriculum, this book provides students with the key knowledge and skills that they need for practice and is fully up-to-date, incorporating the findings of the Munro Report (2011).

Handbook of Traumatic Loss

Handbook of Traumatic Loss
Author: Neil Thompson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317237544

The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human phenomenon, not simply a medical condition. Initial chapters build a foundation for understanding traumatic loss and explore the many ways we respond to trauma. Later chapters counterbalance the individualistic focus of dominant approaches to traumatic loss by highlighting a number of thought-provoking social dimensions of traumatic loss. Each chapter emphasizes different aspects of traumatic loss and argues for ways in which clinicians can help deal with its many and varied impacts.

Child Neglect

Child Neglect
Author: Jan Horwath
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 135031403X

Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment in developed countries and it comes in many forms. From evaluating the effects of neglect on the child to looking at root causes, this wide-ranging book offers evidence-based, practical guidance to support all practitioners in their work with neglected children. In particular: - It assesses a range of methods of intervention and how these best apply to the various needs of different families - It explores the tensions and dilemmas that practitioners can face when working with neglected children - It demonstrates ways that practitioners can work together to promote better outcomes for the child. - It provides frameworks and prompts, such as engaging case studies and reflective questions that can assist practitioners in their work Written by a leading authority on child neglect, this book is essential for all students taking courses in child welfare and will also prove an invaluable handbook for practitioners working with families where there are signs of child neglect.