This text brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within families. Drawing on professional experience the contibutors combine a psychoanalytical and feminist approach to mothering which aims to transcend the polarized and simplistic political debate about women's and children's needs. They also aim to show how such an approach can inform and improve professional practice.
This text brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within fa...
Mark Rivett Brid Featherstone Jonathan B. Scourfield
Working with Men in Health and Social Care is an important and timely book that introduces the complex issues and debates involved in working with men in a range of professional settings. The authors locate academic and popular discourse on masculinities within the specific context of health and social care settings, critically analysing the theory and policy that underpin and inform practice, and continually linking theoretical frameworks to 'real-life' practice examples.
Section 1 contextualises the topic with a discussion of gender theory, social policy and...
Working with Men in Health and Social Care is an important and timely book that introduces the complex issues and debates involved in working w...
Mark Rivett Brid Featherstone Jonathan B. Scourfield
Working with Men in Health and Social Care is an important and timely book that introduces the complex issues and debates involved in working with men in a range of professional settings. The authors locate academic and popular discourse on masculinities within the specific context of health and social care settings, critically analysing the theory and policy that underpin and inform practice, and continually linking theoretical frameworks to 'real-life' practice examples.
Section 1 contextualises the topic with a discussion of gender theory, social policy and...
Working with Men in Health and Social Care is an important and timely book that introduces the complex issues and debates involved in working w...
Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for child welfare practitioners in a variety of contexts. In locating fathers, fathering and fatherhood within a historical and social landscape, the book addresses issues seldom taken up in practice settings. It explores diversity and complexity in fathering in different disciplines such as psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology and analyses...
Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from wor...
Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for child welfare practitioners in a variety of contexts. In locating fathers, fathering and fatherhood within a historical and social landscape, the book addresses issues seldom taken up in practice settings. It explores diversity and complexity in fathering in different disciplines such as psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology and analyses...
Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from wor...
Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can help researchers and practitioners better understand family relationships and issues in children's development
Draws on current developments in thinking about gender relations
Offers an overview of sociological, psychological and developmental perspectives on family relationships, child welfare outcomes and the practice/policy realities of professional interventions with families
Chapters address range of service settings; including family support, child health, education, child protection, domestic...
Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can help researchers and practitioners better understand family relationships and issues in chi...
Raising a number of critical questions, Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris challenge a child protection culture that they see as becoming increasingly authoritarian. Calling for a family-minded practice of child protection, they argue that children should be understood as relational beings and that greater sensitivity should be paid to parents and the needs they have as a result of the burdens of childcare. They argue that current child protection services need to ameliorate, rather than reinforce, the many deprivations that parents engaged in their systems face. Bringing together...
Raising a number of critical questions, Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris challenge a child protection culture that they see as becoming ...
Raising a number of critical questions, Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris challenge a child protection culture that they see as becoming increasingly authoritarian. Calling for a family-minded practice of child protection, they argue that children should be understood as relational beings and that greater sensitivity should be paid to parents and the needs they have as a result of the burdens of childcare. They argue that current child protection services need to ameliorate, rather than reinforce, the many deprivations that parents engaged in their systems face. Bringing together...
Raising a number of critical questions, Brid Featherstone, Susan White and Kate Morris challenge a child protection culture that they see as becoming ...
In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to balance the numerous competing interests of protecting children from harm and promoting family and community capacity. This book explores the ethical issues surrounding child protection interventions and offers a process-oriented approach to ethical practice and decision making in child protection and family welfare practice. Its aim is to prepare students and early-career professionals for roles in the complex and challenging work of child...
In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to ba...
This book explores the policy and practice possibilities offered by a social model of child protection. Drawing on developments in mental health and disability studies, it examines the conceptual, political and practice implications of this new framework.
This book explores the policy and practice possibilities offered by a social model of child protection. Drawing on developments in mental health and d...
