Children's Agency, Children's Welfare: A Dialogical Approach to Child Development, Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781447306290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 168 str.

Carolus Van Nijnatten

Opis

Children develop agency by interacting with their parents and families; if parental agency proves insufficient, child welfare workers must fill in the gaps. In this holistic study of the development of agency, Carolus van Nijnatten engages social, psychological, and developmental perspectives while maintaining a special focus on child welfare structures and the role of the social worker. A significant contribution to current debates about child welfare and protection, "Children s Agency, Children s Welfare"will be essential reading for specialists in social work, childhood studies, and social policy."

Spis treści

Introduction; Child, welfare, agency; The development of individual agency; Social interaction and interactive agency; Social agency and social context; Diagnosis and dialogue; Change and co-construction; Dialogical management; Dialogical child welfare: conclusion.