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Observing Children and Families: Beyond the Surface

English

By (author): Gill Butler

This book explains the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families and helps the reader develop their own skills in this approach.

The ability to observe and to process what is seen is crucial in social work with children and families. Yet successive inquiries into child deaths have demonstrated the problems faced by professionals in doing what is superficially a very straightforward task, highlighting the difficulties in seeing, thinking about and developing an understanding of the childs experience.

 

This book helps readers to develop an understanding of what is entailed in observation, explaining the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families. By drawing out relevant theoretical concepts it aids their understanding of what they are observing and so helps them to develop their own skills. Key theoretical concepts are brought together from developmental psychology and psychoanalytic thinking in a way that enables practitioners to draw on these to inform and enrich their thinking. Useful case studies are presented which practitioners can relate to their own practice when they are struggling to make sense of difficult situations.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 216g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Nov 2015
  • Publisher: Critical Publishing Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910391624

About Gill Butler

Gill Butler has worked in a variety of statutory and voluntary Social Work settings that have included practising as a Childrens Guardian for many years whilst also teaching at the University of Chichester in the Social Work Department. She was also Deputy Dean with particular responsibility for Learning and Teaching. Her practice and thinking is also informed by her experience as a mother and a grandmother. Subject leader for Childhhod and Youth Studies at the University of Chichester.

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