Working with children and young people : co-constructing practice / edited by Lindsay O'Dell, Stephen Leverett.

Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.Constructing and deconstructing practice -- 1.Wellbeing and the ecology of children\'s lives. Andry Rixon -- 2.Construction of normative families. Lindsay O\'Dell -- 3.The surveillance fo children, young people and families. Lisa Arai -- 4.Public policy, children and young people. Pam Foley -- Part II.Co-constructing practice with children, young people and families -- 5.Disabiled children, their paretns and their experiences with practitioners. Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole -- 6.Counselling children: values and practice. Alison Davies -- 7.Young people and mental health: resilience and models of practice. Wook Hamilton -- 8.Domestic abuse and safeguarding children. Lisa Arai -- 9.Sons and daughters of foster carers: invisible, vulnerable or valued? Gail Jackson and Peter Unwin -- 10.The social construction of home and school learning in multicultural communities. Sarah Crafter -- 11.Children\'s welfare and children\'s rights. Gerison Landsdown -- 12.Between the rocks and hard places: young people negotiating fear and criminalisation. Peter Squires -- 13.Constructing practice within the parenting agenda: the case of Sure Start and Parenting Orders. Amanda Holt -- 14.Forest School. Tracy Kelly-Freer.

This reader will be of interest to a wide academic discipline base. It provides a critical account and new theoretical perspectives on practical issues arising from working with children of all ages and their families.