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How can professionals build constructive relationships with
families where the parents dispute professional allegations of
serious child abuse? How can meaningful safety for children be
created in these families? How can professionals work together
constructively in such cases? Situations where parents refute child
abuse allegations made against them are often deemed to be
impossible or untreatable by statutory and treatment professionals.
These cases can consume enormous amounts of professional time and
energy and frequently become bogged down by ongoing
professional-family mistrust and dispute. Often, the decision to
close such cases comes about not because the children are safe, but
rather because the professionalsrun out of ideas, time and energy.
"Working with 'Denied' Child Abuse" presents an innovative,
safety-focused, partnership-based, model called Resolutions, which
provides an alternative approach for responding rigourously and
creatively to such cases. It describes each stage of this practical
model and demonstrates the approach through many case examples from
therapists, statutory social workers and other professionals
working in Europe, North America and Australasia. The book is key
reading for legal, health and social care professionals working in
the area of child protection.
It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals
actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected
or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" The authors bring the
solution orientation to child protection work, expanding the
investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be
built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's
situation. The philosophy behind this approach is clearly
articulated through ten practice principles that serve as guiding
beacons for child protection workers as they traverse the rough
waters of abuse and neglect investigation. Child protection workers
are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in potentially
volatile situations. Here they will find a new child protection
assessment and planning protocol that allows for comprehensive risk
assessment incorporating both danger and safety and the
perspectives of both professionals and service recipients
(parents). The authors provide practical, hands-on strategies for
building a partnership with parents, which may, in the long run,
prevent abuse and family dissolution. They illustrate these
strategies in cases showing the subtle process of integrating the
seemingly opposite notions of coercion and cooperation. Respectful,
optimistic, and highly practical, this book promises to revitalize
and redirect child protection services.
With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this
edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research
and practice surrounding child neglect. Comprehensive and current,
the book takes an expansive look at how we can better address this
prevalent issue. It explores the effects of neglect on the
developing child and makes recommendations on how to identify
neglect at the earliest opportunity. It considers common causal and
contributing factors in neglect cases and the impact of these on
children. The book details effective intervention techniques
alongside case vignettes and shows how change can be achieved. It
highlights the importance of supporting parental care and
developing parental responsibility in families where children are
neglected. Chapters provide in-depth descriptive examples and
include a summary of learning points. Including practical
suggestions for combating child neglect, this is an essential guide
to best practice for students and practitioners working with
children and families. The book also contains useful insights
relevant to researchers and policy makers.
Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other
relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there
are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than
'stranger' foster carers. This book takes an in-depth look at what
goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and
relationships between family members that are involved in kinship
care, including mothers, grandparents, siblings and the wider
family. Chapters also discuss issues such as safeguarding,
assessment, therapy, encouraging permanence, placement breakdown,
support groups, and cultural issues. The final part of the book
looks at kinship care from an international perspective, with
examples from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the United
States. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and with
contributions from different branches of kinship care, this book
provides an invaluable overview of the issues involved and how to
provide effective support. It will be essential reading for all
those working in the kinship care field, including social workers,
therapists, counsellors, psychologists and family lawyers.
An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how
solution focused practice is particularly effective in addressing
violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work
with both adults and children. Solution focused approaches have
been used successfully with a range of violent behaviours from
school-based bullying to severe domestic violence, as well as with
victims of violence. Solution focused approaches hold people
accountable for building solutions to their violent behaviour. The
book shows how to engage clients in solution talk as opposed to
problem talk, set useful goals and help clients to develop new
behaviours. It outlines the practice principles and working
techniques that make up solution focused practice with physical,
emotional and sexual violence. Illustrative case studies and
practice activities are provided. This book is suitable for anyone
working to help reduce violent behaviour, including social workers,
counsellors, therapists, nurses, probation workers and youth
offending teams.
Thoroughly revised and expanded, the second edition of this
successful text and professional resource offers an alternative
approach to thinking about and working with "difficult" families.
From a nonpathologizing stance, William C. Madsen demonstrates
creative ways to help family members shift their relationship to
longstanding problems; envision desired lives; and develop more
proactive coping strategies. The second edition has been thoroughly
updated with practice innovations and many new case illustrations.
New appendices provide outlines for crafting collaborative
assessments, therapy contracts, and other documentation that
enhances accountability while also engaging clients and eliciting
their strengths. Anyone working with families in crisis, especially
in settings where time and resources are scarce, will gain valuable
insights and tools from this book.
Drawing on the work of innovative educators, this edited volume
shows how adopting a solutions focused approach can offer new
constructive ways forward for special education. Diverse
international contributors from both the world of special education
and solutions focused thinking, offer ways to rethink special
education and to focus on what can be done rather than what can't.
Each chapter offers insights into how solutions focused thinking
can reframe special education and the tangible results for
children, families and schools. Chapters on teaching and learning,
behaviour support, human resources, school leadership and family
and community show how a solutions focused approach can be
transformative for all aspects of special and inclusive education.
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