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Culture and child protection : reflexive responses / Marie Connolly, Yvonne Crichton-Hill and Tony Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connolly, Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Services for.
- Children.
- Culture.
- Social work with children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Culture and Child Protection is a concise exploration of the close links between social service practices and cultural values which offers a culturally sensitive model of child protection practice. The authors demonstrate the ways in which a combination of personal, professional and societal attitudes often influence practice decisions.
- Contents:
- Culture, the client and the practitioner in child protection work
- Culturally reflexive responses in abuse work
- Ethnic culture, child protection and the professional environment
- Childhood cultures, care and protection
- Family cultures and protecting children
- Cultures of risk, offending and good lives
- Culturally reflexive theory and practice in child protection
- Final thoughts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-138) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786610566273
- 9781280566394
- 1280566396
- 9781846424540
- 1846424542
- OCLC:
- 437178162
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