New Directions in Children's Welfare Professionals, Policy and Practice /

• Main Author: Pinkney, Sharon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social policy.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social work.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Social Work.

This book makes a distinctive contribution to reflections on what child-centred practice means in the complex area of child welfare. With a theoretical framework informed by insights from a number of disciplinary perspectives, the author pays particular attention to psychosocial, emotional, sensory...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. An interdisciplinary framework for understanding child welfare
• 3. Competing understandings of Children's Services
• 4. The emotional and sensory dimensions of child welfare
• 5. Serious case reviews and inquiry reports: investigating the emotional, sensory and relational dimensions of child protection
• 6. Understanding child welfare as a dynamic hyper-mobile practice
• 6. Trust in relations between children and social welfare professionals
• 7. Conclusion. .