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Child-centred practice: a handbook for social work
- Authors:
- RACE Tracey, O'KEEFE Rebecca
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 267
- Place of publication:
- London
Split into two distinct sections, this book focuses on the foundational knowledge required for child-centred work, unpacking the ethical and theoretical principles that form the basis of the approach and exploring current debates around working with children and families. Each chapter provides insightful practitioner testimonials and case study examples to help the reader apply what they have learned to everyday practice; highlights important research studies that give voice to children and young people, providing the reader with background knowledge of the evidence base for child-centred approaches; and includes engaging questions and activities to enable the reader to reflect on what they have learned, and make links to their own practice, values and beliefs. Key topics covered include: principles and challenges of child-centred practice; understanding children and children's rights; children in context; communicating with children and young people; working with vulnerable children; working with children and young people at risk of abuse and neglect; involving children and young people in safeguarding processes; promoting positive outcomes for children and young people who are looked after. (Edited publisher abstract)
Beyond the risk paradigm in child protection: current debates and new directions
- Editor:
- CONNOLLY Marie
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 232
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
For decades, child protection systems have striven to provide responsive services to vulnerable children and families in the face of the constant change and instability caused by the bureaucratisation of child protection. This book lends a strident voice to the argument for a shift beyond the current risk paradigm, towards genuine cultural change. Topics covered include: risk as a major driver of professional practice; the risk paradigm and the media in child protection; predictive risk modelling as a signal of adversity; new knowledge in child protection – neuroscience and its impacts; disproportionality and risk decision-making in child protection; service users as receivers of risk-dominated practice; engaging families and managing risk in practice; assessment and decision making to improve outcomes in child protection; signs of safety as promising comprehensive approach for reorienting CPS organisations' work with children, families and their community supports; working differently with domestic violence; family risk and responsive regulation; responding differently to neglect – an ecological approach to prevention, assessment and treatment; positive leadership in child protection; and informal and formal support for vulnerable children and families. (Edited publisher abstract)
Understanding interprofessional working in health and social care: theory and practice
- Editors:
- POLLARD Katherine, THOMAS Judith, MIERS Margaret, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This text shows how the different professions work together in practice. Beginning with a series of illuminating case studies, it explores the dynamics underpinning shared care delivery and analyses how principles can best be applied within health and social care settings. Chapters include: care in the community ; care in acute settings; service users, carers and the voluntary sector; maternity and infant care; mental health care; learning for new ways of working ; individual and professional identity; professional boundaries and interprofessional working; the medicalization thesis; organisational issues; values and ethics in interprofessional working; service users, carers and issues for collaborative practice; and conclusions and future directions.
Social work process and practice: approaches, knowledge and skills
- Authors:
- WATSON David, WEST Janice
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 184p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This textbook examines the knowledge, skills and values that underpin and inform current social work practice and processes. It emphasises the need for workers to consider their approach to practice and how this may impact on the assessment, intervention and evaluation of their work with service users. With its clear focus on skills, social work processes and the suitability of different methods, this text offers students a toolkit for applying theoretical frameworks to actual practice situations
Choice and public policy: the limits to welfare markets
- Authors:
- TAYLOR-GOOBY Peter, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 258p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets. This book draws on research by economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts. The research demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. It also shows that the public policies of active consumerism, public sector entrepreneurship and privatisation based on this approach are seriously flawed.
Risk, trust and welfare
- Editors:
- TAYLOR-GOOBY Peter, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 240p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book contains new theoretical discussion and new empirical evidence on the way people think about and cope with the risks and uncertainties of modern life. The national surveys cover areas ranging from lone parenthood to medicine, from house purchase to long-term care, from personal finance to the welfare state. People's confidence in their capacity to cope with uncertainty is closely related to social class, gender and access to support networks. Policies that assume that people are self-interested rational actors are likely to produce unsatisfactory results and to damage the essential social capital of trust.
Loss and grief: a guide for human services practitioners
- Editor:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- xvi, 249 p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important. It also extends understandings of loss and grief beyond death-related losses, encompassing new developments in the theoretical literature. Addressing the social and political dimensions of loss and grief as well as the psychological dimensions, this text brings together contributors from a variety of disciplines, professional background and countries, including such renowned figures as Dame Cicely Saunders and Robert A.Neimeyer
Transforming local governance: from Thatcherism to new labour
- Author:
- STOKER Gerry
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 250p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This text provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities. The author analyses in detail what New Labour has been trying to do to local governance and management and assesses how and why it has achieved only a mixed record of change. The book concludes by providing a vision of good local governance and an assessment of future challenges for research and reform.
Growing up girl: psychosocial explorations of gender and class
- Authors:
- WALKERDINE Valerie, LUCEY Helen, MELODY June
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 240p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. It explores the complexities of class transformation as young women approach a radically altered labor market and examines the profound but different regulation to which young women of all social positions are subjected. Tracing three groups of girls from their early childhood to young adulthood, the volume sheds light on the social, cultural, and psychological dynamics confronting young women today. It highlights the fragility and the fiction of the "I can have everything" girls, providing a ground-breaking and sobering antidote to platitudes about a feminine future.
In search of civil society
- Author:
- DEAKIN Nicholas
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Civil society as a concept is currently much discussed in the political arena and now frequently referred to in academic texts. This book examines what it means in practice and how it relates to more familiar ideas like voluntary action. The book explores the connections between the two, and provides a range of examples of situations in which civil society has provided an arena for voluntary association and action which has had a real impact on events at local, national and, latterly, the global level.