TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Harry
TI  - Child protection practice
SN  - 0230242839 (pbk.)
U1  - 362.76 FER   
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Social work with children
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - When it comes to child protection, who is showing social workers exactly what they should be doing? In this book, Harry Ferguson guides you through the day-to-day realities of child protection practice, outlining its deep complexities along with the knowledge, skills, values and organizational supports necessary to do this difficult job--
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