The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families
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 ......
This comprehensive guide to relationship-based practice in social work communicates the theory using illustrative case studies and offers a model for practice. Updated and expanded, it now includes increased coverage of anti-oppressive and diversity issues, service user perspectives and systemic approaches in social ......
Provides guidance on the ways child protection services need to improve provision for black children and young people in need. With chapters dedicated to key issues, it shows how social workers can provide better support for these children and their families.
The quality of the assessment of children in need has asignificant impact on outcomes for the children concerned.Good assessment contributes to better outcomes, but poorassessment can have tragic consequences. Understanding what makes a good assessment is vital.This book brings together findings from 10 years of UKresearch that shed light on ......
'For many readers, especially trainers and educationalists, the thoroughness of this book is likely to be attractive. The added advantage of O'Connor et al's book is that it covers social work for both adults and children. [This book] is likely to appear on many social work reading lists. [It has] the potential to provide good learning ......
'For many readers, especially trainers and educationalists, the thoroughness of this book is likely to be attractive. The added advantage of O'Connor et al's book is that it covers social work for both adults and children. [This book] is likely to appear on many social work reading lists. [It has] the potential to provide good learning ......
Confidence in services offered to vulnerable children and families relies on sound evidence that intervention programmes provide tangible benefits. Taking a comparative approach to child and family welfare, this accessible reader bring together the evidence gathered from effective child-care interventions in the UK and the USA. Expert authors ......
Neglect is now recognized as leading to significantly poor outcomes for children in the short and long term. It is a matter of concern for all professionals who work with children. Children who are neglected are not likely to seek help in their own right and are highly dependent on professionals such as health visitors and schoolteachers ......
