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With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model. Drawing on contemporary knowledge about childhood and children's rights, it provides a critical understanding of the theoretical and legal basis for child-centred practice, and examines the dilemmas faced by professionals in maintaining their focus on promoting children and young people's participation in decision-making.
Child-Centred Social Work is essential reading for students and professionals, helping the reader understand what we can learn from the tragic deaths of children such as 'Baby P' and Victoria Climbié, and from children and young people in care who need their voices heard.
List of contents
Part 1 Background to child-centred practice
Chapter1.Child-centred practice: the context
Chapter 2. Perspectives on children and childhood
Chapter 3. Children’s rights and child-centred practice
Part 2 Developing skills in child-centred practice
Chapter 4. Communicating with and developing relationships with children and young people
Chapter 5. Empowerment, participation and advocacy skills
Chapter 6. Breaking down the barriers?
Part 3 Specific fields of child-centred practice
Chapter 7. Child protection and safeguarding
Chapter 8. Children and young people who are looked after
Conclusion
About the author
Dr Vivienne Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Kingston University and has extensive experience of working with children and young people as a social worker and latterly as a children’s advocate. She has a particular interest in children’s rights and has conducted doctoral research on social work and advocacy with children and young people in the care system.
Summary
With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model. Drawing on contemporary knowledge about childhood and children’s rights, it provides a critical understanding of the theoretical and legal basis for child-centred practice, and examines the dilemmas faced by professionals in maintaining their focus on promoting children and young people's participation in decision-making.
Child-Centred Social Work is essential reading for students and professionals, helping the reader understand what we can learn from the tragic deaths of children such as ‘Baby P’ and Victoria Climbié, and from children and young people in care who need their voices heard.
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I would recommend this book to all social workers and other professionals who undertake assessments and work with children and families as it gives a clear message children and young people should be centre of all assessments and work with families … This makes this book very relevant to current social work practice with children and families.
