Description
Book SynopsisStrengths-Based Child Protection is the first textbook solely dedicated to furthering strengths-based practices in a child protection setting. Carolyn Oliver provides an original, accessible, and practical research-based model that focuses on the key to success in this field: the worker-client relationship.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Section 1 Setting the Scene Chapter 1 Child Protection Practice Chapter 2. Strengths-Based Practice Chapter 3. Strengths-Based Child Protection Practice Chapter 4. Hearing from the Frontlines Section 1 Summary Section 2 Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice Chapter 5. The Question of Applicability Chapter 6. Relating Therapeutically Chapter 7. Supporting Client Self-Determination Chapter 8. Connecting to Internal and External Resources Chapter 9. Pursuing a Balanced Understanding Section 2 Summary: Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice Section 3 Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice Chapter 10. Inviting Maximum Collaboration and Using Strengths Chapter 11. Using Authority Purposefully Chapter 12. Being Transparent Chapter 13. Attending to the Interaction Chapter 14. Judging Impartially Chapter 15. Seeing Clients as Human Section 3 Summary Section 4 Becoming a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 16. Identifying as a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 17. Educating the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 18. Supporting the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Section 4 Summary: Looking Back, Out and Forward
