Child Neglect and Emotional Abuse: Understanding, Assessment and Response

by Charles Timms and Celia Doyle

Book Overview

Protecting children from emotional abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice. This book takes readers step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, highlighting essential contemporary research evidence throughout.

Part 1: Understanding introduces the nature and consequences of child neglect and emotional abuse, including up-to-date knowledge about the physiological impact of childhood malnutrition and emotional deprivation.

Part 2: Assessment considers in detail the factors which can contribute to the complexity of the assessment process and explains assessment procedures.

Part 3: Response offers insights into positive interventions, including some innovative modern therapies and family management approaches such as ′PACT′.

Using a series of case studies to make complex skills and knowledge accessible, this is essential reading for students and professionals across disciplines that may come into contact with vulnerable children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857022318
• ISBN13: 9780857022318
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"