Best Practice with Children and Families
Critical Social Work Stories
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Best Practice with Children and Families
Critical Social Work Stories
About this book
Social work practice with children, young people and families is complex, highly skilled - and fascinating. Writing about social work increasingly acknowledges the complexities and uncertainties of practice but rarely features the voice of the social worker themselves. This book takes a different approach, that of Critical Best Practice: a constructive, realistic and strengths-based approach that takes as its starting point the telling and analysing of in depth stories about 'live' practice. The reader is encouraged to join the social work practitioner or manager as they engage with the everyday dilemmas and uncertainties of 21st century practice. Ten narratives, based round the themes of relationships, risk, and negotiation & problem solving provide varied opportunities for critical reflection and learning about social work in different contexts. Insights are offered into social work with children, from young babies to adolescents, and families with differing needs in different parts of the UK: England, Scotland and Wales.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Telling Stories: A Journey into Narratives of Practice
- PART 1 RELATIONSHIPS
- 3 Relationships
- 4 Relationships in Intensive Short-Term Work
- 5 Relationships in a Therapeutic Context
- 6 Managing Relationships
- PART 2 RISK, UNCERTAINTY AND JUDGEMENT
- 7 Working with Risk: Fine Judgements and Difficult Decisions
- 8 Assessing Risk of Harm: A Team Approach
- 9 ‘Trying to Get it Right’ with David: Addressing the Risk of Sexually Harmful Behaviour
- 10 Myra: A Balancing Act
- 11 Taking Risks with Alannah
- PART 3 POWER, NEGOTIATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING
- 12 Power and Negotiation in Practice: From Problems to Solutions
- 13 Negotiation and Resistance: It's All About the Child
- 14 Negotiation Without Power: Mediating Post-Adoption Contact Arrangements in a Facebook World
- 15 Negotiating Solutions
- 16 Conclusion
- References
- Index