Social Action with Children and Families: A Community Development Approach to Child and Family Welfare

ISBN-13: 9781138467514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Crescy Cannan

Opis

Argues that meeting the needs of children requires a rediscovery and modernization of the social action and community development traditions of social work and aims to help those working in this field find a new, more positive sense of direction

Recenzje

'A welcome contribution to the debate about the most effective ways of supporting children and families ... I hope this book is widely read by policy makers, managers and practitioners. It points the way forward for a more empowering, community-based and strengths-based practice for children and their families.' - Community Care

'Strategies and practice are described with creativity and commitment...an accessible and readable text for students and professionals...may be influential in developing current thinking about the meaning, and possiblities for, family support.' - Child and Family Social Work

'Inspirational in attempting to establish a radical future agenda for work with children and families in the UK...diverse and exciting collection.' - Social Work in Europe

'It is heartening to pick up a text that refers to long-term community development work ... this book makes a useful contribution to what it is hoped will be an increasingly vibrant area of practice and research.' - British Journal of Social Work

'I will recommend this book to my students in the expectation that they, as the youth and community workers of tomorrow, will pick up the visions and optimism of inclusiveness and conviviality that informs pure community development.' - European Journal of Social Work Vol 1:3 1998

Spis treści

Introduction, Crescy Cannan, Chris Warren; Part 1 New strategies in social action; Chapter 1 Community development and children, Paul Henderson; Chapter 2 Rethinking practice through a children's rights perspective, Jenny Clifton, David Hodgson; Chapter 3 Mapping the future?, Peter Durrant; Chapter 4 Social development with children and families in France, Crescy Cannan; Chapter 5 Family support and the journey to empowerment, Chris Warren; Part 2 New practices with children and families; Chapter 6 New social networks for families and children in Germany, Annemarie Gerzer-Sass, Rudolf Pettinger; Chapter 7 The role of the centre in family support, Eva Lloyd; Chapter 8 Mechanisms for empowerment, Jo Tunnard; Chapter 9 Long-term development, Barry Hulyer; Chapter 10 Think global, act local, Marie-Renée Bourget-Daitch, Chris Warren;

O autorze

Crescy Cannan and Chris Warren are lecturers at the School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex.