Child protection practice. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harry Ferguson.
• Other Names: Ferguson, Harry (Thomas Harold)
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: child protection practice -- Knocking on the door of history: the emergence of child protection practice -- Child abuse and the development (and decline) of intimate child protection practice -- Streets, housing estates, doorsteps: getting to the child -- The home visit: houses and the struggle to protect the abused child -- The reverberations of home visiting: going into the depths to protect children -- Hospitals, office interviews and the emotional complexity of practice -- Working with children in child protection -- The importance of touch in child protection -- Working with fathers -- Working with mothers -- Culturally sensitive child protection practice -- Multi-agency working -- Good authority and working with hostile and deceptive adults and overcoming resistance -- Spaces for reflection 1: the car in child protection -- Spaces for reflection 2: supervision and organisational practices that promote good child protection -- Conclusion: intimate child protection practice.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 362.76/7; General; Child abuse -- Prevention; Social work with children; Social Work; Child welfare
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780230344624; 0230344623
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.