Book Description
A revolutionary approach to child protection work. This book focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" It brings the solution-oriented model to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. For child protection workers, who are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in volatile situations, it provides practical, hands-on strategies for building a partnership with parents, which may, in the long run, prevent abuse and family dissolution.


Book Info
Describes an approach to child protection that can maximize a family's contributions to the welfare of their children. Includes twelve practice principles to aid child protection workers as they investigate abuse and neglect. Case examples are included. For policymakers, social workers, and professionals.

ANNOTATION

Disc. building a relationship w/parents: blending coercion & cooperation; 12 practice principles; risk assessment.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book presents a revolutionary approach to child protection work. It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" The authors bring the solution orientation to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. The philosophy behind this approach is clearly articulated through twelve practice principles that serve as guiding beacons for child protection workers as they traverse the rough waters of abuse and neglect investigation.

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