Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.
Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.
Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.
Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice.
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.
The Social Worker's Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health provides a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems, and equips the reader with the knowledge and skills to provide the best service to these vulnerable young people.
Children and teenagers text, network and twitter online as second nature, but when emails or texts are used to threaten, harass, intimidate or embarrass someone, they can turn from being a source of enjoyment to a source of crippling anxiety and fear.
Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility.
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.
Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care.
Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others.
Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.
Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally.
The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.
Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers is an accessible, comprehensive book providing an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and how they can be supported following trauma.
Youth mentoring can be an effective way of supporting troubled youth, helping them sustain positive mental health, cope with stress, and lead successful lives through adolescence and into adulthood.
Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.
Children have a right enshrined within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to participate in decisions that affect them, and their participation in social care services can have a positive impact on their own self-esteem and confidence, but also the quality of service and decisions made by the social care professionals working with them.
Adolescent neglect is a significant problem within child protection, but focus on child neglect and other forms of maltreatment means that it can often be overlooked.
Neglect is the most common form of child abuse, but recognizing the signs, assessing the family's and the child's needs, and undertaking intervention can be difficult and complicated.
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.
A powerful story about hope, humanity, and the possibility of changeThe inspiration for James Graham's OIivier Award winning play PUNCHIn 2011 Jacob Dunne threw a single punch that ended another man's life.
'I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis.
'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.
Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources which are being stretched by economic cuts and an increasing number of referrals to children's social care.
In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south.
El libro rinde tributo al profesor Mario Bunge (1919-2020) por su trayectoria academica, profesional e intelectual, en la que destacan veintiun doctorados ad honorem, mas de medio millar de articulos y mas de centena y media de libros, entre otros.
Este libro presenta los resultados de un ejercicio de observación de relatos periodísticos sobre temáticas relacionadas con gente negra en dos diarios impresos del suroccidente colombiano durante un periodo de veinte años.
Este ensayo dilucida el origen del sentimiento que guardaban los revolucionarios contra los cientificos, aquella elite tecnocrata de finales del Porfiriato, quiza la mas cosmopolita que Mexico haya tenido jamas, y que parecia facilitar la inminente conquista pacifica del pais por parte de Estados Unidos.
Con este libro la autora pretende contribuir a la lucha de aquellas y aquellos que combaten la opresión, la subordinación y la discriminación en razón de la adscripción "racial", la pertenencia étnica o la diferencia de género.
Antes muerta que sin silla es el relato intimo, politico y profundamente humano de Oyirum, una mujer joven con atrofia muscular espinal que crece entre diagnosticos, quirofanos y expectativas ajenas, y que acaba encontrando en el activismo una forma de nombrarse y reconciliarse con su propio cuerpo.
