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The child's world: the essential guide to assessing vulnerable children, young people and their families
- Editors:
- HORWATH Jan, PLATT Dendy
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 696
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Updated third edition provides comprehensive guide to all aspects of assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It offers information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children and emphasises the importance of inter-professional working throughout. It draws on up-to-date policy, research and developments in practice. Contributors cover key areas for assessment, including children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, safeguarding and support needs, and socio-economic factors, such as poverty and diversity. It also considers early help assessments, and emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, online abuse and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children. (Edited publisher abstract)
Tackling child neglect: research, policy and evidence-based practice
- Editor:
- GARDNER Ruth
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 368
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together contributions from a range of internationally recognised experts to provide the latest theory, research and practice on understanding, assessing and dealing with neglect. Chapters cover the effects of neglect on child development and communication; general practitioners' responses to child neglect; learning from serious case reviews; preventing child neglect; and the role of supporting parenting skills to reduce neglect; and providing effective responses to neglected children. Chapters include in-depth descriptive examples and include a summary of learning points. It provides an essential guide to best practice for students and practitioners working with children and families. (Edited publisher abstract)
Healing the hidden hurts: transforming attachment and trauma theory into effective practice with families, children and adults
- Author:
- HILLS Jude
- Editors:
- ARCHER Caroline, DRURY Charlotte
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 256
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, PA
A collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties. With contributions from social workers, adoptive parents, adoptees, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and other related professionals, this book provides a varied and expansive approach to explaining attachment theory. The authors speak from personal experience to deliver explanations of theory, how they relate to practice and to provide practical guidance on how to improve the physical, emotional and psychological development of children in care across a broad range of professional settings. (Edited publisher abstract)
Exploiting childhood: how fast food, material obsession and porn culture are creating new forms of child abuse
- Authors:
- WILD Jim, BATMANGHELIDJH Camila, JAMES Oliver
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 240
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of articles exploring the impact of the commercialisation and sexualisation of modern culture on child welfare and child psychology and questioning whether child protection procedures remain adequate. Articles cover: the impact of consumer culture on children's relationships; child obesity and junk food; violence in entertainment; sexualisation, popular culture and child sexual abuse; and taking a stand against commercial and sexual exploitation (Edited publisher abstract)
Attaching in adoption: practical tools for today's parents
- Author:
- GRAY Deborah D.
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 400p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents aims to help them understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Practical parenting strategies are matched to children's emotional needs and stages. Checklists are included to help parents assess their child’s progress at each developmental stage and case examples are included throughout. The author covers a wide range of difficult adoption issues including international adoption, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and learning disabilities. Chapters include: Equipping parents of children at risk for attachment problems; what is attachment and why is it important? challenges for children and parents; what children have already learned about attachment; grief and its effects; trauma and traumatic loss; the impact of cultural change; other complications for attaching; emotional development, promoting attachment at every phase; the shape of progress; relaxing the grip of anxiety and control; the fairness factor; building emotional intelligence; forming a team of support; and getting professional help. This book is primarily aimed at adoptive families and anyone thinking of adoption but is also expected to be of interest to adoption professionals.
Social pedagogy and working with children and young people: where care and education meet
- Editors:
- CAMERON Claire, MOSS Peter, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social pedagogy is a new discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'. This book provides an overview of the theory, principles and practice of social pedagogy and the profession of social pedagogue. The editors bring together chapters from leading international contributors to outline the roots of social pedagogy and its development in Europe, and its role in relation to individuals, groups, communities and societies. Chapters also cover; working with children and young people in a variety of settings, including children in care and in need of family support, and potential future applications for social pedagogy.
How to detect developmental delay and what to do next: practical interventions for home and school
- Author:
- MOUNTSTEPHEN Mary
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 176p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical guide which provides advice on how to recognise the signs of developmental delay, address difficulties effectively and help the child develop. It draws on the expertise of specialists in the field and details interventions and tools to tackle the problem. Part 1 looks at child development and the signs of delay, and covers: Factors affecting early development; What to expect in the early years; Detecting special educational needs. Part 2 covers interventions for home and school, including: Movement and learning; Vision, visual processing and learning; Hearing, auditory processing and learning; and How a Psychologist can help. Relevant for parents, teachers and other professionals working with children.
Social work with children and families: getting into practice
- Authors:
- BUTLER Ian, HICKMAN Caroline
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
The author covers the core components of child and family work, such as building effective relationships, assessment, child protection practice and working with the law. The practical approach and accessible text is aimed at social workers, allied health professionals, psychologists and students of social work and child care. The book features case studies, questions and exercises throughout. This third edition includes the latest developments in children and family work, such as changes in professional practice that emphasise the importance of understanding child development and observation skills. Chapters include: developing basic knowledge and skills; children and childhood; the family; parenting; supporting; looking after; child abuse; developing specialist knowledge and skills; assessing; planning; child protection; and court craft.
Child development for child care and protection workers
- Authors:
- DANIEL Brigid, WASSELL Sally, GILLIGAN Robbie
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 246p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
This is the second edition of what is regarded by some as a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field. It summarises current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice. The authors cover key issues such as resilience and vulnerability and the impact of protective or adverse environments. Each stage of development is discussed, and attachment theory is used to offer insights into the impact of abuse and neglect on development. Case studies are included throughout, along with activities to encourage the reader to improve their understanding and reflect on good practice. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the new policy context and multi-disciplinary practice. It encourages practitioners to consider each child as an individual with unique circumstances. Chapters include: framework for understanding child development; developing relationships; parenting and care-giving; resilience and vulnerability; protective factors and adversity; early years; school years; adolescence; and stress and support in the lives of children facing adversity.
Learning through child observation
- Author:
- FAWCETT Mary
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 175p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
This book’s second edition has been updated with insights on child observation from Reggio, Italy and “5x5x5=creativity”, a British arts-based educational project, made by the author whilst working on the latter, which was inspired by the former. Ten chapters look at why observation of children across time and place matters historically and currently, especially in the context of recent government legislation. The author’s and other contemporary views on some child development theories are presented. Strengths and limitations of the theory and practice of observational methods are detailed and evaluated for impact, of their use, on participants and the observers themselves in Chapter 4. The fifth chapter focuses on communication, attachment, concentration and schematic issues, with chapter six narrowing its focus further into pre-school settings in the UK. Chapter seven looks at observation of children within the government’s ‘Common Assessment Framework’ and Chapter eight guides those preparing courses on this subject. The final two chapters concentrate on the Italian and British projects which have informed this updated edition and introduces through, the ‘hundred languages of children’, the concept that there are many possible ways of expressing feelings and ideas which have much in common around the world, and are not necessarily restricted to children.