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Strength-based practice with children and families : a hope-inspiring and empowering approach / Angela Hodgkins and Alison Prowle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodgkins, Angela, author.
- Prowle, Alison, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with children.
- Family social work.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2025.
- Abingdon, England : Routledge, 2025.
- Summary:
- Focuses on using a strength-based approach when working with children and families; based on the belief that there are always strengths in the most challenging of situations.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- About the contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A glass half full: introducing our strength-based philosophy
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Strength-based approaches
- Reflective questions
- Social pedagogy
- Our strength-based philosophy
- The flower
- The leaves
- Enabling environments
- Practitioner skills, qualities and attributes
- The petals
- Trusting relationships
- Solution-focused
- A focus on what is important
- Voice
- Autonomy, dignity and choice
- Person-centred approach
- Identifying strengths, skills and assets
- Ownership and self-efficacy
- Resilience and overcoming barriers
- Holistic approach
- Flexibility and open-mindedness
- Active and empathetic listening
- Unconditional positive regard
- Optimism and hope
- Can too much positivity be problematic?
- The authors reflect on their own philosophy of strength-based practice
- Alison
- Angela
- Chapter summary
- Further reading
- References
- 2 From conception to the first months
- Antenatal care, labour and birth
- Case study
- The transition to parenthood
- Supporting parents
- Strength-based approaches with vulnerable parents and babies
- Strength-based care of the newborn
- Attachment parenting
- Parenting self-efficacy
- 3 Strength-based practice within the early years
- Relationships
- Attachment
- Person-centred skills
- Love and affection
- Individuality.
- The voice of the child
- Routines
- Strength-spotting
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Role modelling
- Positive and respectful behaviour strategies
- Emotion coaching
- Risk, challenge and protection
- 4 Strength-based practice in middle childhood
- What do we mean by middle childhood?
- Understanding development in middle childhood
- Parent-child relationships: the Circle of Security
- Other relationships
- The importance of siblings
- Grandparents
- Peer friendships
- Social media
- Identity formation
- Growth mindsets
- Supporting healthy habits that last a lifetime
- 5 Strength-based practice in services for young people
- Adolescence
- Young adulthood
- Strength-based approaches to youth work
- Positive discourses of young people
- Young people's participation
- Asset-based approaches to working with young people
- Supporting healthy habits for life
- 6 Strength-based practice for children and young people with SEND
- A positive attitude
- Labelling
- Inclusion
- Segregation, integration or inclusion?
- Individualised, child-centred planning
- Early intervention
- Observation, assessment and planning
- The child's voice
- Neurodiversity.
- Case study
- Gardner's multiple intelligences
- Strength-based approaches with complex needs
- 7 Strength-based practice with parents and carers
- Blaming the parents
- Parenting styles
- Towards a strength-based parenting style
- Good enough parenting
- Towards a strength-based approach to good enough parenting
- How mobile phones can affect attunement
- Creating a village to raise the child
- The importance of parental self-care
- Further resources
- 8 Strength-based practice with people who have suffered adverse life experiences
- What is adversity?
- Multiple adversity
- Child poverty
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Strengths in adversity
- Internal strengths and external assets
- Hope
- Practitioner resilience and self-care
- 9 Strength-based practice in safeguarding and child protection
- Safeguarding
- Children's understanding of safety
- Risk and challenge
- The designated safeguarding lead
- Child protection
- Solution-focused practice
- The Signs of Safety approach
- Child voice in child protection
- 10 Celebrating diversity as a strength
- Introduction.
- Diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
- Celebrating diversity
- Culture
- LGBTQIA+
- Race and nationality
- Diversity as a strength
- Tokenism
- Diverse teams
- 11 Strength-based leadership
- What is leadership?
- Towards a strength-based model of leadership
- Overcoming challenges in leadership
- Dealing with change
- The strength-based leader
- Creating a strength-based culture
- 12 Looking to the future with hope
- Theories and ideas about hope
- The practitioner as an architect of hope
- Practitioner self-care
- Compassion fatigue and burnout
- Compassion satisfaction
- Key messages from the chapters of this book
- Cultivating hope in an uncertain world
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781041056997
- 9781915080271
- 9781040374092
- 9781040376799
- OCLC:
- 1397575683
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