Children in Trouble - The Role of Families, Schools and Communities

Carol Hayden reviews evidence about children in trouble across a range of circumstances, demonstrating the tensions between welfare and justice, care and control in the treatment of these vulnerable young people and evaluating the implications of the current ''what works'' debate within social policy. This book will be invaluable to all students and professionals working with children in social work, teaching or the criminal justice system.>

List of contents

Children in Trouble: Historical, Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives
Children in Trouble: Contemporary Perspectives
Children in Trouble: What Kind of Trouble?
Families and Children in Trouble
Children in Trouble at School
In Trouble in the Community (with M. Johns)
'What Works' with Children in Trouble?
Reviewing the Evidence and Looking to the Future.

About the author

Carol Hayden

Product details

• Authors: Carol Hayden
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2007
• EAN: 9781403994851
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-9485-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Children, Well-Being, Social Sciences, Social Work, Child Well-being