Helping Abused Children And Their Families

Author : Chris Trotter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781446265062

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`I think this has the potential to be a very good resource for social work students on qualifying and post-qualifying courses: there aren′t enough books on how to do the job at this level′ - Chris Beckett, Division of Social Work, Anglia Polytechnic University `This book moves beyond investigation and risk assessment to decision making about the most effective ways of working with a family. Trotter provides a strong case for why practitioners should make these decisions evidence based. Only with such an approach is it going to be possible to increase the confidence of those working in Child Protection′ - Professor Margaret Lynch Editor, Child Abuse Review 1992 -2003 `This book gives us fresh insights into the complex task of child protection and must be essential reading for all those engaged in this demanding work. Both practitioners and policy makers will find much to stimulate them here′ - Robbie Gilligan, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy and Associate Director of the Children′s Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin Helping Abused Children and their Families is a timely guide to the main challenges faced by social workers working in the context of child abuse and child protection. Written in a sensitive and accessible style, the book outlines the knowledge and skills needed for effective practice. By drawing upon current international research, Chris Trotter shows that rates of re-abuse and client and worker satisfaction can be improved with certain approaches to intervention. Key strengths of the book include: Draws directly upon the author′s first-hand practice experience to give the book considerable authority Outlines a direct-practice model, including role clarification; problem-solving; pro-social modelling; and client-worker relationship skills Successfully links theory to practice by adopting an evidence-based approach Debates issues from the perspective of the workers; the service-user; and their families. Illustrates the discussions with a comprehensive range of case-studies Helping Abused Children and their Families highlights important research in the field of child protection, and offers a unique opportunity to assess and critique the issues and skills relevant to practice. It will be an invaluable teaching and learning resource for social work trainees, child protection practitioners, and all professionals working in the context of child welfare.

Author : Chris Trotter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412903556

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`I think this has the potential to be a very good resource for social work students on qualifying and post-qualifying courses: there aren′t enough books on how to do the job at this level′ - Chris Beckett, Division of Social Work, Anglia Polytechnic University `This book moves beyond investigation and risk assessment to decision making about the most effective ways of working with a family. Trotter provides a strong case for why practitioners should make these decisions evidence based. Only with such an approach is it going to be possible to increase the confidence of those working in Child Protection′ - Professor Margaret Lynch Editor, Child Abuse Review 1992 -2003 `This book gives us fresh insights into the complex task of child protection and must be essential reading for all those engaged in this demanding work. Both practitioners and policy makers will find much to stimulate them here′ - Robbie Gilligan, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy and Associate Director of the Children′s Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin Helping Abused Children and their Families is a timely guide to the main challenges faced by social workers working in the context of child abuse and child protection. Written in a sensitive and accessible style, the book outlines the knowledge and skills needed for effective practice. By drawing upon current international research, Chris Trotter shows that rates of re-abuse and client and worker satisfaction can be improved with certain approaches to intervention. Key strengths of the book include: Draws directly upon the author′s first-hand practice experience to give the book considerable authority Outlines a direct-practice model, including role clarification; problem-solving; pro-social modelling; and client-worker relationship skills Successfully links theory to practice by adopting an evidence-based approach Debates issues from the perspective of the workers; the service-user; and their families. Illustrates the discussions with a comprehensive range of case-studies Helping Abused Children and their Families highlights important research in the field of child protection, and offers a unique opportunity to assess and critique the issues and skills relevant to practice. It will be an invaluable teaching and learning resource for social work trainees, child protection practitioners, and all professionals working in the context of child welfare.

Author : Diane DePanfilis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : UOM:39015069190893

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Child Neglect by Diane DePanfilis Pdf

Author : Eliana Gil
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781606238080

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Helping Abused and Traumatized Children by Eliana Gil Pdf

Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. Eliana Gil demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both directive and nondirective approaches. Throughout, practical clinical examples illustrate ways to target trauma-related symptomatology while also helping children process painful feelings and memories that are difficult to verbalize. The book concludes with four in-depth cases that bring to life the unique situation of each child and family, the decision-making process of the therapist, and the applications of developmentally informed, creative, and flexible interventions.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309285155

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New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II Pdf

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves -- they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains--including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems--and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.

Author : David Kolko,Cindy Cupit Swenson,Cynthia Cupit Swenson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780761921493

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Assessing and Treating Physically Abused Children and Their Families by David Kolko,Cindy Cupit Swenson,Cynthia Cupit Swenson Pdf

A professional book aimed at practitioners and practitioners in training, this volume is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, practical approach to the assessment and treatment of physically abused children. While there are other books that cover certain aspects of assessment and treatment, this book is comprehensive in that it covers child-specific, parent-specific, and family-specific interventions. The volume will present an overview of child physical abuse (including statistics and consequences), it will discuss outcome studies and treatment implications, and it will thoroughly discuss assessment and treatment. It will help practitioners: Understand children's abuse experiences, views, exposures to violence, and it will help expose thinking errors or negative attributions. It will also help the practitioner help the children with anxiety management, anger management, social skills, and safety plans. Help parents with child management and development, expectations and cognitive distortions, behavior management, and discipline. Facilitate family communication and problem solving.

Author : Chris Trotter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 1446212009

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Helping Abused Children and Their Families by Chris Trotter Pdf

This is a guide to the main challenges faced by social workers working in the context of child abuse and child protection. The book outlines the knowledge and skills needed for effective practice and shows how certain approaches to intervention can help to prevent re-abuse.

Author : NCH Children and Families Project,Mooli Lahad
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1843100096

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Creating a Safe Place by NCH Children and Families Project,Mooli Lahad Pdf

Highlighting the importance of a 'safe place' as the foundation of the healing process for those affected by child sexual abuse, this practical book details the factors that contribute to a secure therapeutic climate where recovery can take place. The Children and Families Project draws on the perspectives of those who have been abused to show how a person-centred approach to establishing a sense of safety can enable children and their relatives to regain trust and self-esteem. The book demonstrates how therapeutic services can be improved through feedback from service users and how creative activities such as storytelling, painting and drama can encourage the expression of experiences. The need for preventative work is also addressed. Of particular relevance to professionals is the exploration of some of the difficulties that may be encountered in this field of work, such as the tension that can arise between therapeutic work and the child protection system. This is an invaluable resource for anyone working with abused children and adults.

Author : Mical Raz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469661223

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Abusive Policies by Mical Raz Pdf

In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to "help end an American tradition" of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio, urged abusive parents to seek help. Support groups for parents, including Parents Anonymous, proliferated across the country to deal with the seemingly burgeoning crisis. At the same time, an ever-increasing number of abused children were reported to child welfare agencies, due in part to an expansion of mandatory reporting laws and the creation of reporting hotlines across the nation. Here, Mical Raz examines this history of child abuse policy and charts how it changed since the late 1960s, specifically taking into account the frequency with which agencies removed African American children from their homes and placed them in foster care. Highlighting the rise of Parents Anonymous and connecting their activism to the sexual abuse moral panic that swept the country in the 1980s, Raz argues that these panics and policies—as well as biased viewpoints regarding race, class, and gender—played a powerful role shaping perceptions of child abuse. These perceptions were often directly at odds with the available data and disproportionately targeted poor African American families above others.

Author : William N Friedrich
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0761903119

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Psychological Assessment of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families by William N Friedrich Pdf

Designed for professionals in the field of child maltreatment, this authoritative book presents a compelling theoretical framework that guide's assessment of children and adolescents who have been sexually abused and their parents. The book is designed to make it easier for clinicians to select a number of measures or procedures across three dimensions that have considerable clinical relevance – attachment, dysregulations, and self-perception. Psychological Assessment of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families features in particular the assessment of sexually aggressive children and an extensive set of interview formats, checklists, and other forms that clinicians will find especially useful in evaluating children and their families. The book is also richly illustrated with case studies.

Author : Michael Karson,Elizabeth Sparks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781135187279

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Patterns of Child Abuse by Michael Karson,Elizabeth Sparks Pdf

Interpret the hidden meaning of family roles to help children at risk! Because dysfunctional patterns are closed systems that serve a secret purpose, they are almost impossible to change from the outside. Patterns of Child Abuse helps you recognize the purpose behind the patterns and offers successful strategies for entering the pattern in order to help family members without joining it and becoming part of the dysfunction. Patterns of Child Abuse identifies the most common, most problematic patterns and explores their hidden meanings. Case studies and theoretical discussions demonstrate the ways family patterns are replicated in a child's psyche and the ways the grown-up child replicates the familiar family pattern, forcing the world to bend to the story within. Synthesizing systems theory, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis, Patterns of Child Abuse offers powerful insights as well as practical strategies for dealing with such complex issues as: how to comfort an abused child who cannot bear to be touched why abused children idealize their battering or neglectful parent how borderline personality organization affects individuals and their families handling the sexually powerful teenage girl, the disruptive boy, and the mother of the sexual abuse victim how family patterns operate in therapeutic context why therapists and social workers may encounter conflicts in child welfare cases when and how paradoxical interventions can work Well-written and insightful, Patterns of Child Abuse conveys a sound theoretical model and a sophisticated approach to the psychology of individuals and families for the child welfare professional.

Author : Jill E. Korbin,Richard D. Krugman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400772083

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Handbook of Child Maltreatment by Jill E. Korbin,Richard D. Krugman Pdf

This Handbook examines core questions still remaining in the field of child maltreatment. It addresses major challenges in child maltreatment work, starting with the question of what child abuse and neglect is exactly. It then goes on to examine why maltreatment occurs and what its consequences are. Next, it turns to prevention, treatment and intervention, as well as legal perspectives. The book studies the issue from the perspective of the broader international and cross-cultural human experience. Its aim is to review what is known, but even more importantly, to examine what remains to be known to make progress in helping abused children, their families, and their communities.

Author : P. B. Mrazek,C. H. Kempe
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483296050

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Sexually Abused Children & Their Families by P. B. Mrazek,C. H. Kempe Pdf

This volume of 18 articles provides information about a diversity of issues - recognition, legal codes, evaluation, psychodynamics, treatment, prognosis and outcome. Included are reports on an extensive survey of professional recognition in England and an examination of European criminal law relating to child sexual abuse, theoretical models of psychosexual development within the family and incest as an expression of a dysfunctional family system. Attention is given to special problems of treatment along with reports on three on-going treatment programmes. Two useful features of the book are a comprehensive bibliography and a critique of available audio-visual materials.

Author : Eliana Gil
Publisher : Dell
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307422453

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Outgrowing the Pain by Eliana Gil Pdf

“Anyone who had a troubled childhood ought to read this book.”—Anne H. Cohn, D.P.H., Executive Director, National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse Do you have trouble finding friends, lovers, acquaintances? Once you find them, do they dump on you, take advantage of you, or leave? Are you in a relationship you know isn't good for you? Are you still trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up? Are you drinking too much, eating too much or trying to numb your pain with drugs of any kind? These are just a few of the problems abused children experience when they become adults. You may not realize you were abused. You may think your parents didn't mean it, didn't know better, or that others had it much worse. You may not even have made the connection between the past and your current problems. Outgrowing the Pain is an important book for any adult who was abused or neglected in childhood. It's an important book for professionals who help others. It's a book of questions that can pinpoint and illuminate destructive patterns. The answers you discover can lead to a life filled with new insight, hope, and love. “The best book available to help survivors cope and understand.”—Dan Sexton, Director, Childhelp's National Abuse Hotline “An invaluable aid for adult survivors of child abuse.”—Suzanne M. Sgroi, M.D., Executive Director, New England Clinical Associates

Author : Michael Karson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0789015889

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Patterns of Child Abuse by Michael Karson Pdf

Explains how child abuse affects the victims and their families, and provides information on how to comfort an abused child who cannot bear to be touched, why abused children idealize their battering or neglectful parent, how borderline personality organization affects individuals and their families, and how family patterns operate in a therapeutic context.