Empowering Practice?: A Critical Appraisal of the Family Group Conference Approach

by CAROL LUPTON

This innovative and timely book examines the nature and meaning of 'empowerment' in child welfare and protection, using the family group conference (FGC) approach to decision making as an example. In response to the growing clamour for 'evidence-based practice', the book addresses the central question of how the idea of empowerment can be operationalised and evaluated.One of the aims of FGCs is to empower children and their families by enabling them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861341490
• ISBN13: 9781861341495
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.4"