Working with Children and Families
Working with Children and Families
Knowledge and Contexts for Practice
Edited by
Robert Adams
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Contents
Robert Adams
Robert Adams
Robert Adams
Michael Wyness
Sandy Hobbs and Jim McKechnie
Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs
Robert Adams and Lesley Jessiman
Elizabeth A. Boyle
Neil Thompson
Lesley Jessiman and Robert Adams
Terence OSullivan
Robert Adams
Robert Adams
Robert Adams
Robert Adams
Maggie Jackson
Alison Cocks and Robert Adams
Pat Watson and Wade Tovey
Robert Adams
Robert Adams, Terry Thomas and David Thompson
Robert Adams
Terence OSullivan
Jennifer Newton
Liz Davies
Robert Adams
Jan Horwath and Janet Lees
Robert Adams
Patricia Higham
Alison Cocks
Robert Adams
Robert Adams
List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
Boxes
Figures
Tables
Notes on Contributors
Robert Adams is Emeritus Professor at the School of Health and Social Care, Teesside University. He has researched and written extensively about social work and social policy, including bestselling books translated into several languages. His social work experience includes directing a community-based centre for Barnardos, working multiprofessionally with children and families.
Elizabeth A. Boyle is a lecturer in psychology at the University of the West of Scotland where she teaches courses in child development, lifespan development, psychology and education and psychological theory. Her research interests lie in the area of thinking, learning, communication and motivation. She has published papers in the areas of learning styles, motivation and the use of computer games in learning.
Alison Cocks began work in social care in the early 1990s, in a centre for physically disabled adults. Once qualified as a social worker, she discovered the challenges and excitement to be gained from working with children with disabilities and their families. Since joining academia, her research interests have primarily been concerned with how disabled children experience the provision of social services. She is also interested in social work values and the ethics of research and methods that promote inclusion in research. Alison is currently working as an independent consultant and researcher.
Liz Davies has many years of practice experience as a child protection manager and now teaches social work at undergraduate, postgraduate and post-qualifying levels. She has a particular interest in training police and social workers in joint investigation and interview skills and has developed an online multiagency child protection training resource with Akamas Publishing. Liz writes widely on the subject and contributed to a Real Story BBC television documentary Saving Becky on the subject of the sexual exploitation of children.
Patricia Higham is an independent consultant for social work and social care education and training. She is professor of social work and social care emeritus at Nottingham Trent University, visiting professor at the University of Northampton, and a non-executive director of NHS Nottinghamshire.
Sandy Hobbs, senior research fellow in the School of Social Sciences in the University of the West of Scotland, was previously reader in psychology. His main fields of research are child employment and the social psychology of knowledge.
Jan Horwath is professor of child welfare at the University of Sheffield. She has a social work background. Jan has particular research interests in assessment practice, factors that influence parenting and multidisciplinary practice. Jan is the author of a number of publications on childcare practice, her most recent book is The Childs World: The Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need (2009).
Maggie Jackson is a senior lecturer at Teesside University and has previously worked for the county psychological service in Redcar, where she worked with children, schools and families on issues of loss and bereavement. She was a also a member of their critical incident debriefing team. She has written a number of articles and books about loss and death, including The Teachers Handbook of Death (2001), which she co-wrote with her colleague Jim Colwell.
Lesley Jessiman completed her PhD in the psychology department at the University of Dundee. This was followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in the same department, researching the effects of typical and pathological ageing on language and communication. Lesley currently has a lecturing post at the University of the West of Scotland, where her primary teaching is in developmental psychology. Lesleys research interests are quite broad, her principal interest being the neuropsychology of language. She is particularly interested in the relationship between language development in children and language degeneration in older adults.
