How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe?
Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality of practice within life's most personal spaces, and offers a rare insight into the lived experience of working with vulnerable children, their parents and other carers.
Blending diverse ideas from across the social sciences, the book addresses some of the key issues faced by practitioners today:
How do practitioners step up to the professional challenge of keeping children safe? Leading author Harry Ferguson draws on his own research, personal experience and real-life case studies to challenge the way we think about child protection. This highly original and engaging book captures the daily reality of practice within life's most personal spaces, and offers a rare insight into the lived experience of working with vulnerable children, their parents and other carers.
An inspiring declaration of the need for a new, intimate approach to child protection, this ground-breaking book lays the foundations of skilful, authoritative practice. It is a must for Social Work student and practitioners within this challenging field.
Blends diverse ideas from across the social sciences and addresses some of the key issues faced by practitioners today
Explores how social workers navigate the private areas of a child's life – their home, their bedroom, their emotional world
Considers what do you do when confronted with parents or carers who are resistant, aggressive or deceitful
Examines why touch is an appropriate and essential element of relating to children, and how can you develop the professional resilience to use it effectively
Harry Ferguson
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