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  • Marital Violence

    The Community Response

    by Margaret Borkowski, Mervyn Murch, Val Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Marriage
    In the early 1980s the subject of violence in marriage was in danger of being overlooked once again, as new social problems dominated the political scene, and the Government pursued policies of retrenchment that were likely to deprive refuges of the necessary central government support. Yet improvements in the services for victims of marital violence were still urgently needed, as this study shows ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Divorcing Children

    Children's Experience of their Parents' Divorce

    by Margaret G Robinson, Dr Lesley Scan, Miss Gillian Douglas, Professor Ian Butler, Prof Mervyn Murch ...
    Drawing on a three-year multidisciplinary study of children of divorced parents, the authors, leading academics in their fields, present a much-needed guide to understanding the experience of children who are experiencing parental separation. This book provides an in-depth account of how children are actively involved in the process of divorce and how they shape that experience. The topics ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Supporting Children when Parents Separate

    Embedding a Crisis Intervention Approach within Family Justice, Education and Mental Health Policy

    by Mervyn Murch ...
    After years of research and reflection on the work of the interdisciplinary family justice system Mervyn Murch offers a fresh approach to supporting the thousands of children every year who experience a complex form of bereavement following parental separation and divorce. This stressful family change, combined with the loss of support due to austerity cuts, can damage their education, well-being, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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    Searching for Values in a Competitive Age

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  • Inside Kinship Care

    Understanding Family Dynamics and Providing Effective Support

    by Lucie Cluver, Sadie Young, Don Operario, Andrew Turnell, James Gleeson, Erica Flegg, Jackie Wyke, Geraldine Crehan, Caroline Kuo, Anna Gough, Elaine Farmer, Nick Banks, Sarah Meakings, Paula Hayden, Tom Hawkins, John Simmonds, Graham Music, Susie Essex, Jeanne Ziminski, Amy O'Donohoe, Marilyn McHugh ...
    Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships between family members that are involved in kinship care, including ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Foster Carers

    Private Sacrifices, Public Restrictions

    by Linda Nutt ...
    The Lives of Foster Carers analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family life. Topics covered include:social policy pertinent to childcarethe history of foster care serviceavailable literature on the experience of foster carerspublic versus private domains in foster caremotivations ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Child Protection

    An Introduction

    by Chris Beckett ...
    Praise for the First Edition:`All readers will be drawn to the style of the book as well as its content. The structure will make sure that it is not just a "one-off", being read as part of a course of study, but a book which is used frequently as a source of reference′ - Child Abuse ReviewThe Second Edition of this best-selling textbook provides students and practitioners with a broad introduction ... Read more

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  • Social Work with Children and Families

    Getting into Practice Third Edition

    by Caroline Hickman, Professor Ian Butler ...
    This key text covers the knowledge and skills that social workers need to get into practice with children and families.The book covers core components of child and family work such as building effective relationships, assessment, child protection practice and working with the law. Clear and accessible, this practical book features case studies, questions and exercises throughout. This third ... Read more

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  • The Great Reading Disaster

    Reclaiming Our Educational Birthright

    by Mona McNee ...
    By the late 1980s half the nation’s children were receiving eleven years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of seven in earlier days. This great reading disaster was caused by the ‘looksay’ method of teaching, which presented whole words not individual letters. This book explains the causes and provides the ... Read more

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  • Child Protection

    Managing Conflict, Hostility and Aggression

    by Siobhan E. Laird ...
    As they intervene in families to reduce the risk of harm to children, child protection social workers around the world are confronting increasingly high levels of hostility and aggression from some parents. Investigations into the deaths of children known to social services have accused social workers of failing to use their professional authority to challenge parents. This much needed book ... Read more

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  • Wednesday's Child

    Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood and Adult Depression

    by Antonia Bifulco, Patricia Moran ...
    As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic research,Wednesday's Child examines why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low self-esteem and depression ... Read more

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  • Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

    Theory to Practice

    by Paul Cooper, Colin J. Smith, Graham Upton ...
    Teachers in mainstream schools are increasingly confronted with children with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties, for whose performance and effect on the rest of the class they are held accountable. Often exclusion seems to be the only option. This book shows that it is not. It provides a concise, clearly written guide to the major approaches which can be used to deal with emotional and ... Read more

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