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Week ending 05 March 2010
| | | Bullying and the peer group: a review. |
| | An overview of the literature on group involvement in bullying in order to better understand the individuals motivation to bully, the lack of support provided to victims of bullying, the persistence of bullying and the adjustment of victims in different contexts. Analyses motives for bullying, different roles for peers around bullying, why peers don't intervene more and implications for bullying interventions. |
| | Publication Details: | Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 15 Issue 2, 2010 pp 112-120 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Salmivalli, Christina |
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| | | Child abuse and neglect: Webster's timeline history, 1860-2007. |
| | Presents a detailed bibliographic compilation of timeline events associated with child abuse and neglect, covering the period of 1860 to 2007. |
| | Publication Details: | San Diego: ICON Group International, 2009 pp 67 |
| | ISBN: | 054636862x |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ J7 |
| | Authors: | Parker, Philip M. ed. |
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| | | Adverse childhood experiences and adult risk factors for age-related disease. |
| | Research to understand why children exposed to adverse psychosocial experiences are at elevated risk for age-related disease. Finds that children exposed to adverse psychosocial experiences have enduring emotional, immune, and metabolic abnormalities that contribute to explaining their elevated risk for age-related disease. Concludes that the promotion of healthy psychosocial experiences for children is a necessary and potentially cost-effective target for the prevention of age-related disease. |
| | Publication Details: | Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Volume 163 Issue 12, 2009 pp 1135-1143 |
| | Authors: | Danese, Andrea et al |
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| | | 'Shocking' abuse followed by a 'staggering' ruling: Re MA (care threshold). |
| | Analysis of majority ruling and dissenting judgement in the Court of Appeal that the threshold criteria were not met in relation to three young children in Re MA (care threshold). Advocates that case could create damaging legacy, which could include: child protection agencies may decide not to pursue applications in care proceedings following seeking the advice of lawyers, magistrates and lower courts may dismiss first instance applications because they feel bound to set standard for intervention too high and in cases where threshold criteria not met local authorities may be more reluctant to appeal. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Law Volume 40 Issue 2, 2010 pp 166-180 |
| | Authors: | Hayes, John, and Hayes, Mary, and Williams, Jane |
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| | | Family and child law in Wales: recent developments. |
| | Update on how devolution has impacted on child and family law and policy in Wales since 2007. Covers the Social Welfare and other Fields Legislative Competence Order 2008, the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2009 and the Welsh Assembly approach to children's rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Finds Welsh Assembly ready to legislate differently to England, especially in relation to children's rights. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Law Volume 40 Issue 2, 2010 pp 186-189 |
| | Authors: | Rees, Osian |
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Child and family services |
| | | Children missing from home or care: local authority self-evaluation scores of measures to monitor, respond to and address runaway cases. |
| | Statistical information on the self-evaluation scores given by Local Authorities in England on measures to monitor and respond to cases of children missing from home or care. Self-evaluation measured against five criteria analysing the extent to which: local information about running away is gathered; local needs analysis is in place; local authorities have agreed measures in place to meet the needs of runaways; local authorities have agreed protocols in place to respond to out of hours/emergency referrals from police/other agencies and local procedures include effective needs assessment procedures, to support effective prevention /intervention work. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2010 pp 16 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) |
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| | | Self-injury: psychotherapy with people who engage in self-inflicted violence. |
| | Practical guidelines for therapists and clinicians. Three sections look at understanding self harm, responding to people who self harm and managing our own responses to self harm. The first describes different forms of self harm and what is known about people who self harm. It explains the function of self harm in relation to trauma, loss and the incomplete self-boundary. The second part focuses on therapeutic interventions, discussing therapy tasks and approaches. It provides recommendations for interacting with people who self harm covering compassionate presence and power relationships. Finally it confronts the difficulty clinicians face in choosing the right action. |
| | Publication Details: | Lanham, MD ; London: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, 2008 pp 418 |
| | ISBN: | 9780765706195 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QMN WUV |
| | Authors: | Connors, Robin E. |
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| | | The soothing effect of sand play on children with a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). |
| | Looks at the healing benefits of sandtray work with children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which does not rely on the use figures or objects. Attempts to evaluate the effect of sand play most specifically within play therapy, on the ADHD child. Draws on the author's personal clinical experiences and observations both in a school playroom and with the NSPCC. |
| | Publication Details: | Play for Life Issue Winter, 2009 pp 6-10 |
| | Authors: | Bailey, Heather |
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| | | The symbolic meaning of roles expressed in experiential play therapy. |
| | Considers the different ways children express the effects of trauma, focusing specifically on how some children create roles to represent the meaning of their experience as they perceived the trauma episode. Presents a list of roles children play in Experiential Play Therapy (EPT) and their meanings, in order to help therapists give meaning to the child's creations and to promote continued expression by the child. |
| | Publication Details: | Play for Life Issue Winter, 2009 pp 11-16 |
| | Authors: | Norton, Byron E., and Norton, Carol C. |
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Child health, development and welfare |
| | | Female voice in violence project: a study into the impact of serious youth and gang violence on women and girls. |
| | First report of the Female Voice in Violence (FVV) project, which sought to explore female involvement in serious youth and gang violence from a female perspective. Draws on face-to-face research with 352 women and girls aged between 13-52, who are all either friends, relatives, victims or perpetrators of gangs and gang violence. Identifies gaps in policy development in the areas of violence against women and serious youth violence, and highlights concerns about the lack of appropriate services available to females caught up in gangs, the use of sexual violence against women and girls by gang members, and the impact of serious violence on their sexual and mental health. Assesses the role and effectiveness of statutory and voluntary sector services, especially women's groups and those working with black and minority ethnic communities, in helping those involved with gangs. Contains case studies. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Race on the Agenda, 2010 pp 140 |
| | ISBN: | 9781907500022 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QJJ GLL R |
| | Authors: | Firmin, Carlene |
| | Corporate Authors: | Race on the Agenda |
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| | | Helping children to cope with change, stress and anxiety: a photocopiable activities book. |
| | Book of photocopiable activities to be used with children aged 7-11 who experience high levels of stress, anxiety and other emotional problems. Provides explanations of emotions and behaviour, and encourages children to think about how they see themselves, and how they feel. Also provides strategies for how to cope with change and anxiety. Resources are adaptable to children of other ages. |
| | Publication Details: | London; Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley, 2010 pp 142 |
| | ISBN: | 9781843109600 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QMN L |
| | Authors: | Plummer, Deborah M., and Harper, Alice ill. |
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| | | Covert cultural sexual abuse of gay male teenagers contributing to etiology of sexual addiction. |
| | Views homophobia and heterosexism as a cultural form of sexual abuse of gay male teenagers and advocates that this abuse can lead to sexual addiction and post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) amongst the adolescent gay population. Advocates the trauma model as a means of treatment for this population. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 287-300 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Kort, Joe |
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| | | Prediction of anxiety symptoms in preschool-aged children: examination of maternal and paternal perspectives. |
| | Investigates the value of a set of theoretically derived risk factors to predict symptoms of anxiety in a sample of preschool-aged children. Mothers and fathers completed questionnaires twice, 12 months apart. Measures were selected to assess several risk factors derived from current theory, including parental negative affectivity, child inhibition, parent overprotection, and impact of life events. According to maternal report, anxiety at 12 months was significantly predicted by prior maternal overprotection, impact of negative life events, child's inhibition, and maternal negative affectivity. According to paternal report, anxiety at 12 months was significantly predicted by prior paternal overprotection and impact of negative life events. The models did not differ significantly for girls and boys. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Volume 51 Issue 3, 2010 pp 313-321 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Edwards, Susan L., and Rapee, Ronald M., and Kennedy, Susan |
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| | | The neurodevelopmental impact of early trauma and insecure attachment: re-thinking our understanding and treatment of sexual behavior problems. |
| | Review of research around the neurological impact of trauma and early attachment experiences in order to inform assessment and treatment of child and adolescent sexual behavioural problems. Suggests that neurologically based processing difficulties contribute to behavioural and learning problems exhibited by sexually abusive children and adolescents and argues for a treatment approach that is more trauma focused. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 223-247 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Creeden, Kevin |
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| | | Outcomes of interagency training to safeguard children: final report to the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health. |
| | Report into the delivery, costs and outcomes of interagency training to safeguard children. Specific measures were developed to assess the outcomes of both generic and specialist courses on such topics as "Introduction to safeguarding" and "Safeguarding disabled children". These measures generally performed reliably and were sensitive to change. Describes the context and mechanisms through which interagency training is planned and delivered and also to estimate the costs. The report also covers identifying and responding to child protection concerns; safeguarding children and domestic abuse, parental mental illness and parental substance abuse; outcomes of interagency training for young people with harmful sexual behaviours and outcomes interagency training for female genital mutilation and safeguarding children. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2010 pp 175 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847756572 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Carpenter, John, and Hackett, Simon, and Patsios, Demi, and Szilassy, Eszter |
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| | | There is only so much juice in an orange: Re SB. |
| | Analysis of case Re SB before the Supreme Court concerning the issue of ' uncertain perpetrator' in relation to bruising to a 4 week old baby, with the mother and father the only possible perpetrators. The case exposes the issue of tension between protecting a child from further harm by removing them from a parent who might potentially be responsible and protecting a family from the injustice of removing a child from a parent who is not responsible for their harm. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Law Volume 40 Issue 2, 2010 pp 196-199 |
| | Authors: | Goldrein, Iain |
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Children's rights, participation and attitudes |
| | | Staying Safe Survey 2009: young people and parents' attitudes around accidents, bullying and safety. |
| | Presents findings of the Staying Safe survey to measure parents' and children's awareness, attitudes and reported behaviours on accidents, bullying, safety and other safety issues covered within the Staying Safe Action Plan and the Byron Review. This research will be used to measure progress of the collective communications efforts, although it will not be used to determine the success of any individual communications activity or campaign. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2010 pp 156 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847756824 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | Synovate (UK) Ltd |
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| | | Bringing rights home for children: transparency and the child's right to respect for private life. |
| | Analyses issue of the right to privacy for vulnerable children and the compatibility of the Children, Schools and Families Bill with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, especially with regard to the publication of information relating to family proceedings. Includes analysis of balance between right to freedom of expression with right to respect for private life. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Law Volume 40 Issue 2, 2010 pp 190-195 |
| | Authors: | MacDonald, Alistair |
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Disability and special needs |
| | | The impact of integrated Children's Services on the scope, delivery and quality of social care services for deaf children and their families: phase 2 report. |
| | Study of 57 Local Authorities (LAs) in England looking at how social care needs are identified, assessed and met for deaf children and their families. Findings on service organisation arrangements in cases of statutory child protection highlight the significance of specialist deaf child knowledge and experience and case specific advice. Looks at the prevalence of co-working between child protection teams and specialist social workers. |
| | Publication Details: | London: National Deaf Children's Society, 2009 pp 50 |
| | ISBN: | 9780904691757 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Young, Alys, and Hunt, Ros, and Oram, Rosemary, and Smith, Carole |
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| | | Challenges to treating adolescents with asperger's syndrome who are sexually abusive. |
| | Analyses emerging sexuality in adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) and the development of treatment strategies for adolescents with AS who display sexual behaviour problems. Uses case studies to illustrate gender and sexual identity issues, examples of sexual behaviour problems and effective treatment strategies for sexually abusive Asperger adolescents. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 265-285 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Ray, Frances, and Marks, Christina, and Bray-Garretson, Helen |
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| | | Team Around the Child (TAC): the small collaborative team in early childhood intervention for children and families who require ongoing multiple interventions. |
| | Overview of the Team Around the Child (TAC) approach, which facilitates the highest degree of joint working for children and families with complex needs. The approach enables each child's key practitioners and parent to collaborate with each other to achieve collective competence and provides them with an opportunity to operate a transdisciplinary model in which practitioners act as consultants to a primary interventionist. The article focuses on babies and young children with disabilities but can be applied to all play therapy clients who have multiple disabilities. |
| | Publication Details: | Play for Life Issue Winter, 2009 pp 25-32 |
| | Authors: | Limbrick, Peter |
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| | | Gender and interpersonal violence: language, action and representation. |
| | Draws on contemporary research to illustrate the ways in which forms of interpersonal violence, and its gendering, are conceptualized, interpreted, resisted and embraced. Explores the role of language in facilitating and constraining the 'speakability' of interpersonal violence, showing how these forms of violence have become unspeakable - excluding and silencing those experiencing violence. Examines both lived experiences of violence and representations of violence to highlight the need for new ways to articulate and conceptualize gendered interpersonal violence. Topics covered include: woman-to-woman partner abuse, South Asian women's experience of sexual violence and familial dynamics, sex trafficking, children's attitudes to violence against women, media representations of abusers, and responses to female-on-male violence. |
| | Publication Details: | Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 pp 240 |
| | ISBN: | 9780230574014 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QJJ |
| | Authors: | Throsby, Karen ed., and Alexander, Flora ed. |
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| | | Children exposed to domestic violence: conclusions from the literature and challenges ahead. |
| | Article examines and discusses the research field of children exposed to domestic violence. Argues that the field is dominated by studies that are quantitative, use the mothers as the informant and are represented by traditional psychology and social medicine, rather than social work. These studies have found substantial support for the negative emotional and behavioural consequences that children exposed to domestic violence suffer. Finds there is a need for more qualitative research in this field. |
| | Publication Details: | Journal of Social Work Volume 10 Issue 1, 2010 pp 80-97 |
| | Authors: | Overlien, Carolina |
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| | | Evaluation of the parenting early intervention programme: 1st interim report. |
| | Evaluation of the Parenting Early Intervention Programme, an initiative to fund local authorities (LAs) in England to implement evidence-based parenting programmes. Evidence from the evaluation indicated the programme had been successful in a number of respects. Comparisons of measures completed by parents before and after they attended a parenting group indicated that there had been substantial improvements in the parents' perceptions of their own mental health and their parenting skills. The parents also considered that the child about whom they had been most concerned at the start of the parenting group had also improved. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2010 pp 89 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847756787 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Lindsay, Geoff, and Cullen, Stephen, and Band, Sue, and Cullen, Mairi Ann, and Strand, Steve |
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| | | The internet, sex, and youths: implications for sexual development. |
| | Summarises research on adolescent online sexual activity (OSA) and its place in adolescent social and sexual development. Defines and investigates OSA, explores gender differences, and investigates problems related to internet use, including internet addiction and internet sexual compulsivity. Finally, overviews treatment options. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 343 - 363 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Boies, Sylvain C., and Knudson, Gail, and Young, Julian |
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| | | Asylum seeking families: family support services and safeguarding children. |
| | Overview of key law and practice which can assist an asylum seeking family to understand which local authority services they are eligible for at each stage of the asylum seeking process. Covers relevant legislation, assessment and safeguarding children and refers to Family Rights Group for free advice. |
| | Publication Details: | Family Law Volume 40 Issue 2, 2010 pp 181-185 |
| | Authors: | Hopkins, Andrea |
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| | | Enlightened witnesses: providing trauma-reducing interventions to juvenile sexual offenders within a maximum security prison. |
| | Examines the issues around the therapeutic treatment of juvenile sex offenders in a prison environment in West Virginia, USA. Describes the prison environment, daily prison life and its impact on the adolescents and the work of the sexual offence specific unit. Analyses different aspects of trauma experienced by juvenile offenders in the institution and explores the therapeutic community and treatment strategies specific to the institution. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 325 - 342 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Kent, Cara |
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| | | Gangs, displaced, and group-based aggression. |
| | Analyses the phenomenon of displaced aggression where aggression is targeted against those who have either not committed a violent act against the aggressor or have only committed a minor act which does not justify the level of violence displayed towards them in return. Also proposed techniques to reduce displaced and group-based gang aggression. |
| | Publication Details: | Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 15 Issue 2, 2010 pp 130-140 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Vasquez, Eduardo A., and Lickel, Brian, and Hennigan, Karen |
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| | | Integrating addictions-based approaches in the treatment of adolescent sexual offenders. |
| | Analyses the use of an 'addiction model' in the treatment of sexually abusive adolescents. Focuses on treating sexually abusive adolescents covering a range of treatment strategies including education, twelve steps/ support group orientation, refraining from masturbation, autobiography, group therapy, individual therapy, alternative coping/skills building training, pharmacotherapy, behavioural interventions/ arousal conditioning, identification of triggers, apology sessions and relapse prevention. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 301 - 324 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Lundrigan, Stephen |
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| | | Sexual offending in groups: an evaluation. |
| | Description of group sexual offending in two main contexts: rape of peers/adults and multiple perpetrator sexual offending against children. Contexts of group offences against children include an examination of paedophile organisations, child sex rings, offences in day care centres and in residential care. Analyses theoretical framework of group sexual offending, particularly focusing on theories and processes of group aggression. |
| | Publication Details: | Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 15 Issue 2, 2010 pp 87-99 |
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| | Authors: | Harkins, Leigh, and Dixon, Louise |
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| | | Street gang theory and research: where are we now and where do we go from here? |
| | An overview of research into gang membership and the role of psychology in understanding why young people join gangs. Reviews research into the definition of a gang and criminological theories of gang membership: theory of social disintegration, theory of cultural transmission, theory of differential association, strain theory, theory of differential opportunity, control or social bond theory. Advocates paying more attention to the role of social psychological processes. |
| | Publication Details: | Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 15 Issue 2, 2010 pp 100-111 |
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| | Authors: | Wood, Jane, and Alleyne, Emma |
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| | | The importance of group processes in offender treatment. |
| | Review of the literature around four process issues in therapy with sex offenders and juvenile sex offenders. Four processes analysed are: therapist characteristics, the client's perception of the therapist, the therapeutic alliance and the therapeutic climate of group treatment. Finds the features analysed have a greater impact on the success of treatment than any particular treatment technique. |
| | Publication Details: | Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 15 Issue 2, 2010 pp 141-149 |
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| | Authors: | Marshall, William L., and Burton, David L. |
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| | | Using experiential exercises in treating adolescents with sexual behavior problems. |
| | Evaluates in a positive manner the use of experiential exercises in the treatment of sexually abusive adolescents and advocates the use of such treatments as opposed to the use of traditional 'talking' therapies. Analyses adolescent learning styles and provides basic principles and exercises to follow in using experiential treatments with adolescents. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 249-263 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Longo, Robert E. |
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| | | Child sexual abuse: Webster's timeline history, 1937-2007. |
| | Presents a detailed bibliographic compilation of timeline events associated with child sexual abuse, covering the period of 1937 to 2007. |
| | Publication Details: | San Diego: ICON Group International, 2009 pp 87 |
| | ISBN: | 0546368638 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ J7 |
| | Authors: | Parker, Philip M. ed. |
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| | | Rebuilding shattered families: disclosure, clarification and reunification of sexual abusers, victims, and their families. |
| | Analyses the use of different forms of family therapy with sexual abusers and their families in families who seek to reunify following the disclosure of sexual abuse of a family member. Includes analysis of strategic family therapy, solution-focussed family therapy, narrative family therapy and the multi-systems approach. Focuses on the processes of disclosure and family reunification and includes case studies. |
| | Publication Details: | Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity Volume 11 Issue 4, 2004 pp 187-221 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Price, David M. |
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| | | Managing transitions: support for individuals at key points of change. |
| | Addresses significant transitions relevant to policy and practice, covering key transition points in social care from childhood to old age. Draws on research evidence to highlight issues common to all when experiencing transition as well as the dilemmas specific to particular situations. Individual chapters explore how transition is experienced by young people leaving care, by those with learning disabilities and mental health problems, and by young people seeking asylum. Includes evidence-based practice guidance for each area addressed. |
| | Publication Details: | Bristol: The Policy Press, 2009 pp 170 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847421791 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QEE |
| | Authors: | Petch, Alison ed. |
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| | | Sexuality and social work. |
| | Aimed at social work students to identify situations where issues of sexuality need to be considered and addressed. Considers the diversity of sexualities from social constructionist and naturalist perspectives. Explores definitions, assumptions, intervention, power and oppression. Looks at sexuality and social work practice in relation to young people, older people, disabled people, HIV and sexual violence. Presents guidelines for best practice with a range of service users. |
| | Publication Details: | Exeter: Learning Matters, 2007 pp 158 |
| | ISBN: | 9781844450855 |
| | Shelf Mark: | HXB |
| | Authors: | Bywater, Julie, and Jones, Rhiannon |
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| | | Social work placements: a traveller's guide. |
| | Accessible guide to social work placements aimed at students and supervisors. Illustrates how students can make the most of their practice learning opportunities, as well as how to anticipate some of the problem areas and pitfalls to avoid. It covers: preparing for placement; getting to grips with placement documentation; understanding how and what you might learn on placement; integrating theory with practice; non-traditional placements; anticipating difficulties and dealing with them; and getting the best from assessment and evaluation. |
| | Publication Details: | Abingdon: Routledge, 2010 pp 241 |
| | ISBN: | 9780415499125 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QBG JVL ADO |
| | Authors: | Doel, Mark |
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