Working with children and young people : co-constructing practice /
edited by Lindsay O'Dell, Stephen Leverett.
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xi, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Social work with children. Social work with youth. Family social work. Society. Society. Social services & welfare, criminology Central / national / federal government policies Child welfare Social work