Description
Book Synopsis
- How can professionals build constructive relationships with families where the parents dispute professional allegations of serious child abuse?
- How can meaningful safety for children be created in these families?
- How can professionals work together constructively in such cases?
Situations where parents refute child abuse allegations made against them are often deemed to be impossible or untreatable by statutory and treatment professionals. These cases can consume enormous amounts of professional time and energy and frequently become bogged down by ongoing professional-family mistrust and dispute. Often, the decision to close such cases comes about not because the children are safe, but rather because the professionalsrun out of ideas, time and energy.
Working with 'Denied' Child Abuse presents an innovative, safety-focused, partnership-based, model called Resolutions, which provides an alternative approach for responding rigourously and creatively to such ca
Table of Contents
Introduction: Imagining Denial Differently
Chapter One: Thinking about Denial
Chapter Two: Principles that Inform the Resolutions Approach
Chapter Three: The Resolutions Model in Overview
Chapter Four: Before the Beginning
Chapter Five: Engaging the Parents and Network: From Multiple Stories through to the Story for the Children
Chapter Six: The Words and Pictures: Engaging and Involving the Children
Chapter Seven: Broadening and Deepening the Network's Involvement; Extended Family, Friends and Workmates
Chapter Eight: Family Safety Plan
Chapter Nine: Working in the Hypothetical: The Similar but Different Family
Chapter Ten: Finalizing the Family Safety Plan and Concluding the Treatment
Chapter Eleven: Case example; a divorced couple in a situation of denied sexual abuse
Chapter Twelve: Implementing the Approach
Chapter Thirteen: Conclusion
