Child and Family Social Work

The latest edition of this excellent work includes new and revised chapters which address key aspects of working with children and young people with sexually harmful behaviours...

The latest edition of this excellent work includes new and revised chapters which address key aspects of working with children and young people with sexually harmful behaviours...

This book provides chapters concerning the physiological effects of violence on children, its effects on behavioral and emotional functioning, and differences between boys and girls...

The most influential English language refereed journal articles on children in state care, their birth relatives and carers, are brought together in this volume. These articles, which include empirical research and critiques of policy and practice, are mainly from the UK and USA, but include coverag..

This book is a resource to ensure that the children of incarcerated parents, their caregivers, and their mothers and fathers, are provided the support they need to address the challenges they face during and after parental incarceration. It was originally published as a special issue of Smith Colleg..

Children in the developing world face increased risks to their well-being from the effects of catastrophe, disease, war and poverty. Services to support the health and development of children in the global South are therefore discussed here in the context of these risks as well as in the context of ..

The Children Act 1989, for the first time in welfare legislation, cited religion as an essential aspect of children’s lives to which social workers should give attention. Although religious and spiritual aspects of childhood have been studied in the field of education, these are new subjects within..

Published in 1999. Drawing on practice examples developed in Britain, Canada and Sweden, this book examines preventative community-based approaches to child welfare which can be used to support families experiencing behavioural problems with children or undergoing difficulties in raising them...

Concepts and Definitions of Family for the 21st Century views family from a U.S. perspective and from many different cultures and societies. You will examine the family as it has evolved from the 1950s traditional family to today's family structures. The controversial question, “What is family..

This book represents a significant contribution to the highly contested debate surrounding how allegations of child sexual abuse should be evaluated. _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse...

Theorists still argue about the meaning and value of the popular and controversial concept of need in social policy. These papers offer a critical appraisal of this concept by looking at: methods for assessing children's needs at the individual and group levels; approaches to designing services to m..

Here is an excellent introduction to and overview of the field of divorce mediation, a field that has grown rapidly and achieved a remarkable level of recognition among both the clinical and legal professions in the last decade. Divorce Mediation describes the process and some of the techniques of ..