Casework in child care / by Jean Kastell ; foreward by M. Brooke Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kastell, Jean, author.

Series:

Sociology of youth and adolescence ; 4.

International library of sociology.

International library of sociology. Sociology of youth and adolescence ; 4

International library of sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--Great Britain.

Child welfare.

Social case work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 1962.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; CASEWORK IN CHILD CARE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND; 1. THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT; Setting; The Work of the Child Care Officer; The Setting of Interviews; Facilities of the Department; Meeting the Need; The Status of the Department; 2. THE CASEWORK PROCESS; Casework; Conflicting Functions; Demands on the Caseworker; The Child in Care; 3. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE REMOVAL OF STABILITY; A Dynamic Concept; The Baby; The Toddler; Early School Age; Later School Age; The Adolescent; Adult Life; Patterns of Behaviour

Symptomatic BehaviourMeeting the Need; PART TWO: THE WORK; 4. PREVENTIVE WORK; The B. Family; Demands on the Child Care Officer; Referral; Supportive Casework; Recognition of the Limitations of a Case; 5. RECEPTION INTO CARE-ANTICIPATED; Referral; Assessment of Need; Therapeutic use of Reception into Care; Indeterminate Care; Case work with the Parent; The Care of the Child; Principles Involved; 6. RECEPTION INTO CARE-IN A CRISIS; Referral Situations; Demands of the Case; Casework; 7. THE PANEL OF FOSTER PARENTS; Making the Need Known; Motivation; Assessment of the Foster Home

Demands on the Case workerThe Prospective Foster Parent; Interdependence in Fostering; Approval of a Foster Home; The Rightness of Boarding Out; 8. THE INTRODUCTION OF A CHILD TO A FOSTER HOME; The Child's Confusions and Conflicts; The Parent and Fostering; Division of Loyalties; Learning to Foster; Case Conferences; The Boarding Out Process; Principles; 9. THE CHILD AND HIS FOSTER HOME; The Child Care Officer as Official and as Caseworker; Assessment of Foster Homes; Casework Relationships; Intensive Casework; Meeting the Needs of the Child

Placement that is not in the best Interests of the ChildCasework with the Child; 10. REHABILITATION AND APPROVED SCHOOL AFTER CARE; The Child who has been in Care under Section I Children Act I948; The Child over whose return home the Local Authority has Statutary Control; Approved School After Care; The Child's Need to Know bis own Home; The Special Needs of the Adolescent; The right time for the Child to return to his own Home; Conclusions: the Aims of Rehabilitative Work; 11. ADOPTION; Adoption and Adopters; Adoption and the Child; Adoption and the Natural Parent; The Parent and Casework

The Child Care Officer and Adoption PlacementThe older Adopted Child; Adoption and Ambivalence; 12. THE PURPOSIVE USE OF RESIDENTIAL CARE; Children in Children's Homes; Demands on Residential and Field Staff; Casework with Children; Aims of Casework with the Child; PART THREE: CASE STUDIES; 13. JIMMY AND ANN G.; A Case Record: Children Admitted to Care and later Boarded Out; Case Study; 14. SALLY P.; A Case Record: The Deprived Child of a Deprived Mother; Case Study; Moral judgements dispelled by increased knowledge; 15. DAVID; A Case Record: The Child without Roots; Case Study; INDEX

Notes:

Originally published: London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1962.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-136-24949-4

0-415-86349-X

1-315-00725-8

1-136-24942-7

9781315007250

OCLC:

859204622