Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices
Practice theories to support child protection social work in the United Kingdom, as in the United States and Australia, are being squeezed out by a focus on performance targets and procedural timescales. This study examines an innovative programme designed to reverse this trend initiated by an Engli...
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| author | Laird, Siobhan E. Morris, Kate Archard, Philip Clawson, Rachael |
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| description | Practice theories to support child protection social work in the United Kingdom, as in the United States and Australia, are being squeezed out by a focus on performance targets and procedural timescales. This study examines an innovative programme designed to reverse this trend initiated by an English local government authority. The programme aimed to embed systemic family practice in situations where children are deemed to be at risk of harm. The findings, derived from an analysis of a case file sample, indicate that social worker interaction with family members is predicated on who is living with the child in conjunction with the risk status of the case file. Conversely, practitioner interactions with family members are divorced from family structure and the lived experiences of kin relationships. This study concludes by examining why, despite training in systemic family practice, it was problematic for social workers to integrate it into their encounters with families. |
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| spelling | nottingham-405092020-05-04T18:29:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40509/ Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices Laird, Siobhan E. Morris, Kate Archard, Philip Clawson, Rachael Practice theories to support child protection social work in the United Kingdom, as in the United States and Australia, are being squeezed out by a focus on performance targets and procedural timescales. This study examines an innovative programme designed to reverse this trend initiated by an English local government authority. The programme aimed to embed systemic family practice in situations where children are deemed to be at risk of harm. The findings, derived from an analysis of a case file sample, indicate that social worker interaction with family members is predicated on who is living with the child in conjunction with the risk status of the case file. Conversely, practitioner interactions with family members are divorced from family structure and the lived experiences of kin relationships. This study concludes by examining why, despite training in systemic family practice, it was problematic for social workers to integrate it into their encounters with families. Wiley 2017-01-27 Article PeerReviewed Laird, Siobhan E., Morris, Kate, Archard, Philip and Clawson, Rachael (2017) Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices. Child and Family Social Work . ISSN 1365-2206 family child protection kin social work fathers child abuse child maltreatment http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cfs.12349/abstract doi:10.1111/cfs.12349 doi:10.1111/cfs.12349 |
| spellingShingle | family child protection kin social work fathers child abuse child maltreatment Laird, Siobhan E. Morris, Kate Archard, Philip Clawson, Rachael Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| title | Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| title_full | Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| title_fullStr | Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| title_short | Working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| title_sort | working with the whole family: what case files tell us about social work practices |
| topic | family child protection kin social work fathers child abuse child maltreatment |
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