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Applying the 5-Step Method to Children and Affected Family Members: Opportunities and Challenges within Policy and Practice
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Harwin, Judith – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2010
The main aim of this article is to consider how the 5-Step Method could be developed to meet the needs of affected family members (AFMs) with children under the age of 18. This would be an entirely new development. This article examines opportunities and challenges within practice and policy and makes suggestions on how the Method could be taken…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Counseling Techniques, Child Abuse, Child Welfare
Possible Futures for Social Work with Children and Families in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States
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Spratt, Trevor – Child Care in Practice, 2008
There has been considerable interest in recent years in comparing the operation of social work services for children and families internationally, particularly between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Reviewing the respective policy environments and drawing on recent research experience in these three nations, the author…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation
Rebalanced and Refocused Social Work Practice?
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Hayes, David – Child Care in Practice, 2006
The 1970s heralded the beginnings of a major shift in focus within child care social work in the United Kingdom, and the preventive, family support approach that had characterised practice since the 1940s was gradually, but decisively, replaced by a central concern with child abuse. This paper outlines the rise and dominance of child protection…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Social Work
The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents with Learning Disabilities in Britain
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Emerson, Eric; Hatton, Chris – Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (NJ1), 2007
A previous project by the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities analysed data that had been collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 1999 in their survey of the mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain. The Foundation found that in this nationally representative sample of just over 10,000 children, 39%…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Accidents, Incidence, Mental Health
Workshop Two: Child Protection; Relative Values?
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Taylor, Anne Sinclair – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1996
Presents salient features of workshop discussion examining child abuse. Topics discussed include cross-cultural definitions of abuse, prevalence rates, family-centered versus child-centered approaches, educational perspectives on child protection work, the need for international research, abuses of child protection systems, emotional demands on…
Descriptors: Burnout, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children
[Management of the Growth of Programs for Infants and Toddlers and Their Families].
Pawl, Jeree, Ed. – Zero to Three, 1991
This newsletter issue is about the growth of programs that serve infants, toddlers, and their families, and the management of that growth. The articles address early intervention programs with infants and young children with disabilities. The first article, "Implementing a Multi-site, Multidisciplinary Clinical Trial: The Infant Health and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs