Social Work with Children and Families : Developing Advanced Practice (Paperback)

Introduction  Part 1: Child and Family Centred Social Work  1. Hearing Children’s Voices and Respecting Children’s Wishes and Feelings Part 1: Trust, Communication and Support  2. Hearing Children’s Voices and Respecting Children’s Wishes and Feelings Part 2: The Legal Framework, and Putting it into Practice  3.Reflection: Theory, Knowledge, Identity and Power in Working with Children and Families  4. Assessment of Parenting: Constructing Meaning From Detail  5. Narrative and Understanding the Family’s World: Questions and Stories in Working with Children and Families  6. Social Work and Poverty: A Complex Relationship  Part 2: Social Work and the Management of Risk  7. Risk in Child and Family Social Work Part 1: The Idea of Risk and Uncertainty in Social Work  8. Risk in Child and Family Social Work Part 2: Probability and Prevention  9.Working with Resistance: The Challenge of Working with Involuntary Service Users  10. Drugs and Alcohol and Child and Family Social Work  11. Being In Care and Going Home: Working with Parents Towards Reunification  12. Supporting Others in their Professional Development  Conclusion