The Child's World, Third Edition: The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families

The Child's World, Third Edition: The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families
ISBN-10
1784503827
ISBN-13
9781784503826
Category
Social Science
Pages
608
Language
English
Published
2018-12-06
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Authors
Jan Horwath, Dendy Platt

Description

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors. This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children's neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children. Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children. The importance of inter-professional working is emphasised throughout.

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