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Neglected Children and Their Families
By: Olive StevensoneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Those who work with children and young people have a responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare. Recognizing and detecting signs of emotional abuse and neglect is an important responsibility as well as a key skill. As well as ensuring that children and young people are free from harm, it is equally important to ensure their well-being and quality of life.
This new edition of Olive Stevenson’s highly respected text is updated throughout to include the latest policy and research developments, and expanded to include greater consideration of topics such as the impact of parental mental health, substance abuse and alcoholism on parental capacity and the issue of parents with learning disabilities. Providing clear guidelines for the assessment and intervention of child neglect, Neglected Children and Their Families is an invaluable resource for all those studying and working in childcare, including social workers, health visitors and child nurses.
Includes recent policy and research developments in the field, and includes latest government initiatives
Provides best-practice guidelines for the detection and assessment of neglect
Written by a highly-respected authority in the area
Evidence-based, accessible and practical in style
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| Title of eBook: Neglected Children and Their Families | |
| Release Date: 05-21-2008 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Neglected Children and Their Families
Chapter One
Defining and Understanding the Problem
Introduction
Since the introduction to the 1998 edition was written, my concern (or burden as I described it then) about the plight of neglected children and their families has increased. Others share this concern; there has been a considerable body of thoughtful research and reflection on the topic. Now, as in 1998, professionals agree that neglect as an aspect of child abuse is not at present satisfactorily handled by British child protection services; many also know that there is quite strong evidence that the longer-term effects of neglect on children may be even more serious than sporadic physical injury as a result of abuse. Yet, somehow, the nettle has not been grasped. Assessment and protection plans have been less effective than for physical abuse. It is widely acknowledged that professionals may feel a sense of relief when there is an 'incident' or a 'happening' in a particular family (whether of sexual or physical abuse), which is seen to legitimate action for children about whom neglect has long been a primary concern. In what follows, I shall discuss the reasons for the difficulties, both professional and academic, in addressing the issue and make some suggestions of ways forward.
This introductory chapter identifies problems. Much of the rest of the book explores these problems in greater depth. For this reason, I have largely avoided the rather irritating authors' habit of referring the reader to later chapters.
The evidence that there are groun
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