
Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work
About this book
The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique approach of working intensively with the whole family, and encouraging them to share their experiences with other families, to instigate a complete change that will benefit all family members.
Using detailed case studies to illustrate the model, the book focuses on the needs of children with a wide range of developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and explores the complicated interactions between these children, their families and their communities. The care team includes nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, family therapists and creative therapists, social workers and teachers. They examine how to integrate a range of therapeutic interventions and how to use the powerful relationships that develop between professionals and families to enable positive, lasting changes.
This book will be indispensable reading for trainees and professionals working with children with mental health problems and their families, and special needs educationalists wanting to understand the benefits of an intensive, multi-family approach to treatment for children who do not respond to standard community interventions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
- Chapter 2 Therapeutic Engagement
- Chapter 3 Structure and Containment
- Chapter 4 A Nurturing Environment
- Chapter 5 Multi-Family Work
- Chapter 6 Accessing Learning
- Chapter 7 Fostering the Child’s Social World
- Chapter 8 Understanding the Individual
- Chapter 9 Understanding the Family
- Chapter 10 Creating a New Story
- Chapter 11 Reflection and Evolution
- Appendix 1: Croft Rules
- Appendix 2: Weekly Task
- Appendix 3: Care Plan for Managing Difficult Behaviour
- Appendix 4: Children’s Pictorial Timetable
- Appendix 5: Parent Timetable
- Appendix 6: Assessment of Activities of Daily Living
- Appendix 7: Croft Key Worker Book
- Appendix 8: Global Assessment Care Plan
- Appendix 9: Scoring of Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessment
- References