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Improving the health of children and young people in public care : a manual for training residential social workers and foster carers / Helen Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Helen, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Institutional care--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Children.
- Teenagers--Institutional care--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Teenagers.
- Children--Health and hygiene--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Teenagers--Health and hygiene--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Foster home care--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Foster home care.
- Social work with children--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Social work with children.
- Social work with teenagers--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Social work with teenagers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : National Children's Bureau, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This manual supports the health training of residential and field social workers and foster carers
- Contents:
- Introduction; The training manual; Guidance for course leaders; Contents of the training sessions; Pathways through the materials; Module 1 Session 1: What is health?; Module 1 Session 2: Factors affecting health; Module 1 Session 3: Principles and practice of health promotion; Module 1 Session 4: Promoting the health of children and young people in practice; Module 1 Session 5: Personal attitudes and values and professional practice; Module 1 Session 5: Personal attitudes andvalues and professional practice; Module 2 Session 1: Record keeping, policies and the law
- Module 2 Session 2: Consent and confidentialityModule 3 Session 1: Child development and health surveillance; Module 3 Session 2: Simple childhood illnesses,including skin diseases; Module 3 Session 3: Asthma and allergic reactions; Module 3 Session 4: Diabetes and epilepsy; Module 3 Session 5: Sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia; Module 3 Session 6: Viral diseases, exemplified by hepatitis Band HIV; Module 3 Session 7: Bedwetting and soiling; Module 4 Session 1: Understanding mental health problems
- Module 4 Session 2: Depression, conduct disorder, self-harm and attention deficit hyperactivity disorderModule 4 Session 3: Eating disorders; Module 4 Session 4: Promoting mental health; Module 5 Session 1: Healthy eating; Module 5 Session 2: Physical activity andexercise; Module 5 Session 3: Sex and relationships education - knowledge; Module 5 Session 4: Sex and relationships education - attitudes and values; Module 5 Session 5: Introduction to drugs education including cigarettes and alcohol; Module 5 Session 6: Illegal drugs and solvent use
- Module 5 Session 7: Use and misuse of over-the-counter medicinesModule 5 Session 8: Accident prevention and First Aid
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-905818-70-X
- OCLC:
- 758384534
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