Child-Centred Social Work: Theory and Practice - Softcover

Barnes, Vivienne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113760641X ISBN 13: 9781137606419

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2018

Synopsis

With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model. Drawing on contemporary knowledge about childhood and children’s rights, it provides a critical understanding of the theoretical and legal basis for child-centred practice, and examines the dilemmas faced by professionals in maintaining their focus on promoting children and young people's participation in decision-making.

Child-Centred Social Work is essential reading for students and professionals, helping the reader understand what we can learn from the tragic deaths of children such as ‘Baby P’ and Victoria Climbié, and from children and young people in care who need their voices heard.

About this title

From the Back Cover

What makes a good social worker? Children and young people quoted in this book say they want someone who listens, cares and respects them as individuals. Keeping a focus on children and young people can be difficult, however, when other adult professionals, carers and managers have a stronger and more influential voice than the children themselves.

With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model. It draws on contemporary knowledge about childhood and children’s rights to provide a critical understanding of the theoretical and legal basis for child-centred practice, and examines the dilemmas faced by professionals in maintaining their focus on promoting children and young people's participation in decision-making.

Child-Centred Social Work: Theory and Practice is essential reading for students and professionals, helping the reader understand what we can learn from the tragic deaths of children such as ‘Baby P’ and Victoria Climbié, and from children and young people in care who need their voices heard.

About the Author

Dr Vivienne Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Kingston University and has extensive experience of working with children and young people as a social worker and latterly as a children’s advocate. She has a particular interest in children’s rights and has conducted doctoral research on social work and advocacy with children and young people in the care system.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 113760641X
• ISBN 13: 9781137606419
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210