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Project-Based Group Work Facilitator's Manual
Young People, Youth Workers and Projects
Andy Gibson and Gaynor Clarke
This book is intended to help youth workers to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to work successfully and creatively with groups of adolescents and young adults. It explores how skills are learnt, how values, and understandings are developed and how projects can enhance this process. It also shows how these things can happen in practice. Learn More1995, 200pp -
Child Abuse and Child Abusers
Protection and Prevention
Edited by Lorraine Waterhouse
Based on both research and practice, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the success, fairness and significance of child protection services for children, parents and individuals. It approaches the problem of child abuse from the various perspectives of those affected (abused children and young people, parents and professionals). Learn More1996, 240pp -
Helping Children with Ill or Disabled Parents
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Julia Segal and John Simkins
When a parent falls ill or becomes disabled, the pressures placed on family, relations and friends can be very great. Children, in particular, are sometimes forgotten as the adults struggle to cope, yet often have to endure enormous anxiety. The authors look at the range of issues that can arise, including guilt, anger, frustration and fear. Learn More1996, 256pp -
The Participation Rights of the Child: Rights and Responsibilities in Family and Society
Målfrid Grude Flekkøy and Natalie Hevener Kaufman
This introductory text, written by one of the world's authorities on the rights of the child, covers all the issues involved in a comprehensive and accessible way. The book should be required reading on human rights courses, as well as key background reading for a wide range of professionals who work with children. Learn More1997, 200pp -
Children as Citizens: Education for Participation
Edited by Cathie Holden and Nick Clough
The social, moral and cultural development of children is a central concern for all schools. This book, which draws on the voices of children and practising teachers, demonstrates how such development can be promoted through children's readiness to discuss, debate and actively participate as young citizens. Learn More1998, 240pp -
Growing Up with Disability
Edited by Carol Robinson and Kirsten Stalker
Growing Up with Disability encompasses a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications. The book adopts a child-centred approach, stressing the importance of communicating with disabled children, and includes interviews and pieces of their own writing. The book explores how such children can best be protected. Learn More1998, 224pp -
Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Brian Corby
Social workers involved in child sexual abuse work have key powers and duties in civil law to protect children. Written for professionals, this book examines the complex nature of such cases, and explores the problems encountered by local authority social workers who are required to intervene in families to protect children. Learn More1998, 176pp -
Middle Childhood
Moira Borland, Ann Laybourn, Malcolm Hill and Jane Brown
The period of childhood which falls between the early years and adolescence is a comparatively neglected area of study. In its combination of viewpoints, set against a background of related research, law, policy and practice, this book offers a rich and challenging study of an important period of the child's development. Learn More1998, Hardback, 9.29in x 6.30in / 236mm x 160mm, 224pp, $95.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-472-61998, Paperback / softback, 9.06in x 6.22in / 230mm x 158mm, 224pp, $44.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-473-3 -
Social Workers, the Community and Social Interaction
Intervention and the Sociology of Welfare
John Offer
Social workers are called upon to perform their varied tasks in a wide range of social settings, often involving intensely intimate contact with, and intervention in, a person's private moral and social world. This book demonstrates the practical relevance of recent sociological research for good social work practice. Learn More1999, 200pp -
Traveller Children
A Voice for Themselves
Cathy Kiddle
This book looks at education in the context of several distinct travelling groups including Circus, Fairground and New Travellers. Cathy Kiddle argues that education is important for Traveller children in that it enables them to develop into independent learners and, through this, independent people, able to speak for themselves. Learn More1999, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 6.22in / 229mm x 158mm, 176pp, $39.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-684-31999, Ebook, PDF, 176pp, $39.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-622-6
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