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This edited volume, within Jessica Kingsley's Child Welfare Outcomes series, is a welcome addition to the literature on residential childcare. It focuses what it terms therapeutic care (TRC) described as involving: … planful use of purposefully constructed, multi-dimensional living environment designed enhance or provide treatment, education, socialisation, support and protection children youth with identified mental health behavioural needs in partnership their families collaboration full...
This review summarises the research literature on children’s and parents’ involvement in social work decision making, which is regarded, policy terms, as increasingly important. In practice, however, it tends to be messy, difficult compromised. Different individuals or groups may have different understandings of participation related concepts, while differences age disability also mediate effective user engagement. The highlights common themes participatory practice with both children their...
Journal Article Social Pedagogy and Working with Children Young People: Where Care Education Meet Get access Meet, Claire Cameron Peter Moss (eds), London, Jessica Kingsley, pp. 221, ISBN 978 1 84905 119 4 (pb), £24.99 Mark Smith Senior Lecturer in Work,School of Political Science, University Edinburgh, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Work, Volume 42, Issue 4, June 2012, Pages 799–801, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs078 Published: 01 2012
Social pedagogy is the discipline underpinning work with children and youth across most of Europe. The concept has struggled to find a place within social in English-speaking world, partly because difficulties translation as result different welfare traditions. In particular there limited conception education Anglo American Saxon tradition consequent bifurcation care. This article argues that ideas enshrined have resonance Scottish approaches welfare, which culminate Kilbrandon Report 1964....
The participation of service users in the planning and delivery social work services has become a familiar objective UK. Policy injunctions, however, mask lack clarity around what is meant by terms such as 'participation' 'engagement'. Moreover, since many do not engage with workers voluntarily, expectation that they centrally involved highlights tensions contradictions. This article explores engagement involuntary clients, drawing on findings from knowledge exchange project involving...
In this paper we apply the lens of moral panic to analyse child protection social work in UK. We suggest that many anxieties beset are best understood as panics and discuss processes which ‘claims-makers’ have introduced amplified concerns into panics. two examples over endangerment: first is concerned with foundation NSPCC its campaign for Children’s Charter 1889. The second contemporary 21st century anxiety children young people’s use Internet, exemplified activities Child Exploitation...
Attachment theory has, over the last half-century, offered important insights into nature of early experience and human relationships more generally. These lessons have been influential in improving child-care attitudes provision. While acknowledging such advances, our argument this article is that dominance accorded attachment policy professional discourse has reached a point where understandings become totalised within an paradigm; it 'master theory' to which other ways conceiving...
In a context of austerity, governments are reducing spending on care and welfare. Yet, little is known about how this experienced enacted the ground. article, we employ case-study approach in Scottish local authority children families social work team to consider workers deal with tensions working times austerity. We draw literature sociology emotions explore impact practitioners within diminishing services resources. This as conflicting professional, 'caring' values work. Such emotional...
Summary Bortezomib is standard treatment in AL amyloidosis (AL), but contraindicated patients with significant neuropathy. Carfilzomib, a second‐generation proteosomal inhibitor, results lower incidence of neuropathy than bortezomib, data scant. We report cohort five treated upfront carfilzomib. All had cardiac, peripheral and autonomic at presentation. achieved least very good partial haematological response. There was no worsening cardiac function, or Carfilzomib an effective option and/or...
Introduction Attribution theory posits that helping behaviour is determined in part by the potential helper’s attributions and emotions regarding requires help. Specifically, considered to be more likely if stability perceived as low, generating optimism for change, controllability engendering high levels of sympathy low anger. Method We conducted a systematic literature search identify studies have tested these predictions relation carers’ propensity help people with intellectual...
Despite the centrality of term within title, meaning 'care' in residential child care remains largely unexplored. Shifting discourses have taken it from private into public domain. Using a ethics perspective, we argue that needs to move beyond its current instrumental focus articulate broader ontological purpose, informed by what is required promote children's growth and flourishing. This depends upon establishment caring relationships enacted lifespaces shared children those for them. We...
There is growing interest across the UK around whether European models of social pedagogy might offer a conceptual framework within which to locate care and welfare work. Pilot programmes that seek introduce apply pedagogical principles in practice settings are emerging, including Scotland, where joint BA run by The University Aberdeen conjunction with Camphill Schools was first qualifying programme UK. Many these pockets can seem only loosely connected one another. ‘Scottish Conversations’,...
Journal Article The Presentation of Child Trafficking in the UK: An Old and New Moral Panic? Get access Viviene E. Cree, Cree * is Professor Social Work Studies Head at University Edinburgh. Both Gary Clapton Mark Smith are Senior Lecturers *Correspondence to Edinburgh, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15A George Square, EH8 9LD, UK. E-mail: viv.cree@ed.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Clapton, British Work, Volume 44, Issue 2, March 2014, Pages...