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Neglected children and their families /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevenson, Olive
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Child welfare > Great Britain.
Family social work > Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Defining and understanding the problem
  • Definitions : arguments and limitations
  • 'Thresholds'
  • Wider factors
  • Neglectful families : the general context
  • Poverty
  • Wider family and community support
  • Social exclusion
  • Ethnic and cultural factors
  • Parents
  • Issues affecting understanding
  • What do we know about the characteristics of these parents?
  • The responses of mothers to young children
  • Typologies of neglectful parents
  • Gender
  • Substance abuse, depression, and learning disability
  • Drug abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Maternal depression
  • Parents with learning disabilities
  • Physical health of parents
  • Children who are seriously neglected
  • The foundation for healthy development
  • The effects of serious and chronic neglect
  • Infants and young children
  • School-age children and young people
  • Delinquency and antisocial behaviour
  • The concept of resilience
  • Attachment
  • Disorganised neglect
  • Depressed, passive and physical neglect
  • Social work with neglected children
  • Working together in cases of neglect; unresolved problems and current issues
  • The current situation
  • Issues and difficulties in relation to neglect
  • The split between welfare and justice systems
  • Neglected children and the family courts
  • Multidisciplinary work; adult and children's services
  • The role of the school
  • Intra-agency work; continuing difficulties in integrating health care
  • So what is to be done?
  • Improving parenting capacity; the prognosis
  • 'The big decision'
  • Modes of intervention
  • Help for parents 'as people'
  • The wider family
  • The neighbourhood and wider community
  • The concept of 'shared care'
  • The continuum of complementary care.