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  • Safeguarding Children and Schools

    Series series Best Practice in Working with Children
    Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting task faced by schools in context, explaining relevant policy, the latest research findings and ... Read more

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  • Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence

    Evidence-Based Assessment, Analysis and Planning Interventions

    Series series Best Practice in Working with Children
    Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the child, make specialist assessments where there are continuing safeguarding concerns (using the Assessment Framework) and plan effective child-centred and outcome-focused interventions.The authors analyse ... Read more

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  • Child Neglect

    Practice Issues for Health and Social Care

    Series series Best Practice in Working with Children
    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 identifying and responding to their needs for support and ... Read more

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  • The Developing World of the Child

    This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice. Considering theories of development throughout the lifespan from the early years through to adolescence, and transitions to adulthood, this resource is essential reading for a range of professionals including social workers, teachers, and health and mental health professionals. The authors build up ... Read more

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  • Residential Child Care

    Prospects and Challenges

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Residential Child Care draws on the latest research to offer guidance for developing best practice, policy and improved outcomes for children and young people.Contributors examine important aspects of residential care work, and address the concerns about the poor outcomes for young people leaving care and the role of residential child care as a positive choice within the range of care services. ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment

    How to Interpret Children's Needs

    by Duncan Helm ...
    Series series Best Practice in Working with Children
    The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers in analysing and making sense of the information gathered, and increasing accuracy and empathy in assessing the needs and risks for vulnerable children and young people.This book offers best practice ... Read more

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  • Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers

    Second Edition

    Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.The book covers key issues such as resilience and vulnerability and the impact of protective or adverse environments. Different stages of development ... Read more

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  • Challenging Child Protection

    New Directions in Safeguarding Children

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of social workers and child protection workers.Taking a fresh look at the principles underlying child protection, this book provides a thought-provoking analysis of the evidence base which underpins professional understanding and intervention. It ... Read more

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  • Recognizing and Helping the Neglected Child

    Evidence-Based Practice for Assessment and Intervention

    Series series Safeguarding Children Across Services
    Neglect is the most common form of child abuse, but recognizing the signs, assessing the family's and the child's needs, and undertaking intervention can be difficult and complicated.This book, based on extensive research of the evidence, outlines how neglect can be recognized, examining the signs that parents give to signal their need for help, and the signs that a child's needs are not being met ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Early Years

    Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children 1

    This clear and practical workbook shows the importance of encouraging resilience in pre-school children who live in challenging circumstances. Focusing on assessment of need, Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell show how to evaluate resilience using checklists and background information.They explain that children in their early years gain resilience from a range of experiences, including attachment ... Read more

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  • Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition

    Knowledge and Theory

    This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment models and interventions, and also offers guidance on the effective implementation of assessment across a ... Read more

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    by Cathy Glass ...
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