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Good enough parenting: the role of parental education
- Author:
- MORTLEY Emma
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 47p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Research study looking at parent education programmes and considering the implications for social work practice.
Trans-Manche partnership
- Author:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 18(3), Autumn 1994, pp.17-20.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes a pilot project which looks at the different approaches adopted by English and French social workers in their child protection work, and in particular to how they work 'in partnership' with parents.
Defining coparenting for social work practice: a critical interpretive synthesis
- Authors:
- HOCK Robert M., MOORADIAN John K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 16(4), 2013, pp.314-331.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Coparenting, referred to as “an enterprise undertaken by two or more adults working together to raise a child for whom they share responsibility,” is responsive to intervention, associated with multiple indicators of individual and family well-being, and applicable to diverse family structures. Because of a lack of conceptual clarity, however, and absence from social work publications, coparenting has not yet entered the purview of social work. In this review, the authors attempt to synthesize existing coparenting definitions into one that is conceptually clear and clinically useful for social work practice with families. Implications for social work practice and research are discussed. (Publisher abstract)
Accomplishing parental engagement in child protection practice?: A qualitative analysis of parent-professional interaction in pre-proceedings work under the Public Law Outline
- Authors:
- BROADHURST Karen, HOLT Kim, DOHERTY Paula
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Social Work, 11(5), 2012, pp.517-534.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The topic of parental engagement in the context of child protection is of significant international interest, given much documented problems of achieving effective ‘partnerships’ where professional agencies raise serious concerns about children. This article reports the findings of a qualitative study of interaction between professionals and parents in the quasi-judicial setting of pre-proceedings meetings in England. Recent legislative changes in England and Wales have aimed to improve the prospects for effective partnership work with parents through a revised pre-proceedings process. Through detailed examination of parent-professional interaction using methods of applied discourse studies, the study highlights the constraints that institutional requirements create in terms of the differential rights and obligations of parents and professionals. Inevitably, that talk is asymmetrically organised in favour of the local authority, leads to resistance on the part of parents. The study highlights problems of engaging parents who display both active and passive forms of resistance, as they seek to challenge or reject organisational goals. The study concludes with broader observations about the likely limits of legislative efforts that seek to ‘re-order’ the complex relationships between parents and professionals in child protection work. (Publisher abstract)
Looked after children and family contact: reassessing the social work task
- Authors:
- BILSON Andy, BARKER Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 16(1), 1998, pp.20-27.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The Parental Contact Research Project provides evidence from a census of 1068 looked after children and young people. This article gives an overview of the results regarding levels of contact with families before detailing the link between levels of social work contact with children and their parents and increasing levels of family contact. It also highlights important issues about
Addressing the needs of working mothers: the changing context for occupational social work education
- Author:
- LINDBOM Joanne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 12(1/2), 1995, pp.85-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A complex interplay of individual, family, work and public policy factors often makes it difficult for working mothers to perform adequately in their dual roles as family member and employee. This article presents an overview of the changing nature of these social systems and their relationship to the needs of employed mothers. To train undergraduate and graduate students for effective intervention with this group, occupational social work curricula need to recognise the interactive relationship between the individual concerns of working mothers and the broad range of systemic factors that may lead to problems coping with multiple responsibilities.
Working with drug users
- Authors:
- GRIFFITHS Ronno, PEARSON Brian
- Publisher:
- Wildwood House
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 108p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
A guide for social workers dealing with drug misuse.
Child abuse and its consequences: observational approaches
- Authors:
- CALAM Rachel, FRANCHI Cristina
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 226p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Powerful parent educators and powerless parents: the ‘empowerment paradox’ in parent education
- Authors:
- LAM Ching-man, KWONG Wai-Man
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 14(2), 2014, pp.183-195.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: In an action research project to develop an empowering mode of parent education in Hong Kong, premised on an empowerment discourse and a social constructionist epistemology, a pilot design was developed through a series of four “reflective seminars”. These seminars engaged parents and professionals in a process of participatory inquiry, three parent groups with Chinese parents, followed by two focused group interviews and six individual interviews to tap participants’ narratives of their learning experience. Findings: Although parent empowerment has been widely advocated in parenting work, the authority of expert knowledge as perceived by participants and the power imbalance between parent educators and parents posed a new “empowerment paradox”. In our attempt to practice a new empowering mode of parent education for local parents was developed. Addressing this “empowerment paradox” requires a paradigm shift from the education model to an approach based on reflexive practice. Applications: Parent educators need to be sensitive to social, cultural, discursive and institutional forces in order to negotiate a power relation that is characterized by collaboration and partnership (Publisher abstract)
The safety of children and the parent-worker relationship in cases of child abuse and neglect
- Author:
- HOWE David
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 19(5), September 2010, pp.330-341.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The author revisits the claim that much of what helps to keep at-risk children safe depends on the quality of the relationship between the worker and the parent. A good working alliance between child protection workers and parents is associated with therapeutic success and service user satisfaction. However the author believes that some current developments, such as the growth of an audit culture and emphasis on targets and performance, appear to undermine the worker's ability to establish working alliances. Poor-quality working relationships and increased emotional distance reduce the worker's capacity to be empathic and result in levels of stress for both parents and workers remaining high. This heightened stress can impact on the capacity of the adults involved to keep at-risk children in focus and safe. The author discusses containment as a way of processing and managing difficult feelings which, along with more recent therapeutic concepts such as mentalisation, encourages workers to keep the parents' feelings in mind as well as to hold the child in mind for the parent. These processes can help parents as they slowly begin to appreciate their child, not just as a physical object