The child's world : the essential guide to assessing vulnerable children, young people and their families / edited by Jan Horwath and Dendy Platt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Platt, Dendy.

Basarab-Horwath, Janet Anne, 1952-

Standardized Title:

The child's world : assessing children in need

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children: social welfare.

Children: welfare.

Child protection: social welfare.

Social work: children.

Child care: social work practice.

Family support services.

Family social work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (696 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.

Summary:

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors. This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children's neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children. Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children. The importance of inter-professional working is emphasised throughout.

Contents:

The assessment task / Jan Horwath

The assessment process : gathering information / Jan Horwath

The assessment process : making sense of the information, analysis and forming judgements / Danielle Turney, University Of Bristol, And Dendy Platt

Effective communication with children and young people / Audrey Tait, Captains Road Social Work Centre, Edinburgh And Helen Wosu, University Of Edinburgh

Open door : involving pre-school children / Ruth Marchant, Triangle, UK

Assessments involving young people with complex needs / Ruth Marchant

Engaging parents in the assessment process / Danielle Turney And Gillian Ruch, University Of Sussex

Multidisciplinary participation in assessment from early help to child protection / Julie Taylor, University Of Birmingham, Dawn Hodson, NSPCC, UK And Patrick Neil, Consultant, Oxford

Assessing parenting capacity / Liz Hadcroft, Consultant, Norfolk And David Jones, Oxford

Assessing parenting: contemporary perspectives on parenting / Stan Houston, Queen's University Belfast

Assessing parental motivation and ability to change / Dendy Platt And Katie Riches

The impact of parenting issues on parenting capacity / Michael Murphy And Michaela Rogers, University Of Salford

Assessing the developmental needs of the child / Aideen Naughton, NHS Wales

Assessing health needs / Jane Appleton, Oxford Brookes University

Assessing educational needs / Christine Gould And Barbara Lawrie, Yorkshire

Emotional and behavioural development : the importance of attachments / David And Yvonne Shemmings, University Of Kent

Assessing the needs of asylum seeking and trafficked children / Emma Palmer, University Of Lancaster

Assessing the needs of young people who sexually abuse / Simon Hackett, University Of Durham

Assessing the needs of young carers / Katherine Bishop, Research In Practice, Sheffield

Identifying the needs of young people leaving care / Emily Munro, University Of Bedfordshire

Pre-birth assessments / Jane Barlow, University Of Warwick

Assessing cumulative harm in cases of emotional abuse and neglect / Jan Horwath

Assessing possible physical abuse / Arnon Bentovim And Stephen Pizzey, The Child And Family Practice, London

Assessing possible sexual abuse in the family / Arnon Bentovim, Stephen Pizzey And Jenny Gray

Assessing possible child sexual exploitation and on-line abuse / Emilie Smeaton, Paradigm Research, York

The impact of poverty on vulnerable children and families / Dave Backwith, Anglia Ruskin University

Family and community support needs for vulnerable families / Dave Backwith

Working with cultural & religious diversity / Claudia Bernard, Goldsmiths, University Of London; Contributor Bios

Index.

Notes:

Revised edition of The child's world, 2010.

Includes index.

First edition published as The child's world: assessing children in need.

ISBN:

9781784503826

1784503827