| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) |
| Series |
International library of sociology and social reconstruction |
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International library of sociology and social reconstruction. (London).
Sociology of youth and adolescence
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| Contents |
Cover; CASEWORK IN CHILD CARE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND; 1. THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT; Setting; The Work of the Child Care Officer; The Setting of Interviews; Facilities of the Department; Meeting the Need; The Status of the Department; 2. THE CASEWORK PROCESS; Casework; Conflicting Functions; Demands on the Caseworker; The Child in Care; 3. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE REMOVAL OF STABILITY; A Dynamic Concept; The Baby; The Toddler; Early School Age; Later School Age; The Adolescent; Adult Life; Patterns of Behaviour |
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Symptomatic BehaviourMeeting the Need; PART TWO: THE WORK; 4. PREVENTIVE WORK; The B. Family; Demands on the Child Care Officer; Referral; Supportive Casework; Recognition of the Limitations of a Case; 5. RECEPTION INTO CARE-ANTICIPATED; Referral; Assessment of Need; Therapeutic use of Reception into Care; Indeterminate Care; Case work with the Parent; The Care of the Child; Principles Involved; 6. RECEPTION INTO CARE-IN A CRISIS; Referral Situations; Demands of the Case; Casework; 7. THE PANEL OF FOSTER PARENTS; Making the Need Known; Motivation; Assessment of the Foster Home |
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Demands on the Case workerThe Prospective Foster Parent; Interdependence in Fostering; Approval of a Foster Home; The Rightness of Boarding Out; 8. THE INTRODUCTION OF A CHILD TO A FOSTER HOME; The Child's Confusions and Conflicts; The Parent and Fostering; Division of Loyalties; Learning to Foster; Case Conferences; The Boarding Out Process; Principles; 9. THE CHILD AND HIS FOSTER HOME; The Child Care Officer as Official and as Caseworker; Assessment of Foster Homes; Casework Relationships; Intensive Casework; Meeting the Needs of the Child |
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Placement that is not in the best Interests of the ChildCasework with the Child; 10. REHABILITATION AND APPROVED SCHOOL AFTER CARE; The Child who has been in Care under Section I Children Act I948; The Child over whose return home the Local Authority has Statutary Control; Approved School After Care; The Child's Need to Know bis own Home; The Special Needs of the Adolescent; The right time for the Child to return to his own Home; Conclusions: the Aims of Rehabilitative Work; 11. ADOPTION; Adoption and Adopters; Adoption and the Child; Adoption and the Natural Parent; The Parent and Casework |
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The Child Care Officer and Adoption PlacementThe older Adopted Child; Adoption and Ambivalence; 12. THE PURPOSIVE USE OF RESIDENTIAL CARE; Children in Children's Homes; Demands on Residential and Field Staff; Casework with Children; Aims of Casework with the Child; PART THREE: CASE STUDIES; 13. JIMMY AND ANN G.; A Case Record: Children Admitted to Care and later Boarded Out; Case Study; 14. SALLY P.; A Case Record: The Deprived Child of a Deprived Mother; Case Study; Moral judgements dispelled by increased knowledge; 15. DAVID; A Case Record: The Child without Roots; Case Study; INDEX |
| Summary |
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- Great Britain
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Social case work.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Child welfare
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Social case work
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Willis, M. Brooke, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781136249426 |
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1136249427 |
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1136249494 |
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9781136249495 |
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1315007258 |
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9781315007250 |
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