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Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families : How Interventions Link with Long-term Outcomes.
Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change. There is little evidence available on what works. This book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care interventions provide better long term outcomes for neglecte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2012.
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| Colección: | Safeguarding children across services series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families: Linking Interventions to Long-term Outcomes; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: What We Know; Defining neglect; The impact on the child; Disability and neglect; Causes and contributing factors; Case management; Intervention; Relevant research on reunification; Gaps in knowledge; 2. Study Aims and Methods; Aims of this book; Design of the study; 3. The Children's Early Experiences; The sample; The parents' histories; History of children's services involvement; The children's early experiences in care; Neglect and other maltreatment.
- Number of adversitiesThe impact on children of neglect, abuse and poor parenting; 4. Services and Interventions; Services for parents during the final three-year period; Services for children during the final three-year period; Services for both parents and children; How far support was matched to identified needs; Services and support for parents and children from first referral to the end of the five-year follow-up; 5. Case Management: Responding to Risk and Workingwith Safeguarding Procedures and the Courts; The impact of neglect as a presenting problem; Assessment.
- How adequately were concerns about the children followed up?Important problems not addressed; Failure to safeguard children; The effectiveness of child protection plans; The effectiveness of care proceedings; Case planning and plans for permanence; 6. Case Management: Working with Parents and Childrenand Overall Patterns of Case Management; Lack of parental engagement; Levels of engagement of the children; How far were expectations about parental standards made clear?; Giving parents too many chances and bringing about change in parents; The effect of children's ethnicity on case management.
- Inappropriate case closureUnallocated cases; The effect of changes of social worker on case management; Drift; Failure to contain children; How proactive was case management?; Criticism of case management on the case files; 7. Social Workers' Perspectives; Engaging and working with parents and children; Returns home; Services and interventions; The success of children's services involvement; Workers' knowledge of their cases; Neglect; 8. Interviews with Parents and Children; Interviews with parents; Interviews with children and young people; 9. The Children's Progress and Outcomes.
- The outcomes of the returnsSafeguarding during the final three-year period; Adversities and parental difficulties during the final three-year period; The children's relationships with their carers; The children's progress; Outcomes in terms of stability and pathways; Outcomes in terms of the children's well-being; Ethnicity; 10. Explaining Outcomes; Outcome variables; Stability; Well-being; 11. Implications for Policy and Practice; The children's early experiences; Services during the final three-year follow-up period; Case management.