Safeguarding and Mental Health Support in Contemporary Childhood: How the Deserving/Undeserving Paradigm from the Past Overshadows the Present

ISBN-13: 9780367652449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 142 str.

Opis

Approaches regarding safeguarding and mental health in childhood have been in constant flux. Framed within a critical realist ontology, this book provides insight into causal factors (individual, material, institutional) and social structures that impact on the continued legacy of the ‘deserving/undeserving' paradigm.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Safeguarding, Mental Health & the Legacy of the ‘Deserving/Undeserving’ Paradigm – worthy or unworthy victims?  2. Mental Health & Safeguarding through a Critical Realist Lens.  3. The Case of the Waifs and Strays (1881-1918).  4. The Case of Care Leavers, Mental Health and Safeguarding in Contemporary Britain.  5. Good Practice & Bad Practice – Lessons Learnt.  Conclusion - Changing perceptions: A way forward. Index.

O autorze

Wendy Sims-Schouten is Associate Professor (Reader) in Childhood Studies, School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth, UK.