Foreword -- Acknowledgments. Introduction. Section 1 Setting the scene : Child protection practice -- Strengths-based practice -- Strengths-based child protection practice -- Hearing from the front lines -- Section one summary. Section 2 Choosing not to use strengths-based practice : The question of applicability -- Relating therapeutically -- Supporting client self-determination -- Connecting to internal and external resources -- Pursuing a balanced understanding -- Section two summary. Section 3 Firm, fair, and friendly practice : Inviting maximum collaboration and using strengths -- Using authority purposefully -- Being transparent -- Attending to the interaction -- Judging impartially -- Seeing clients as human -- Section three summary. Section 4 Becoming a strengths-based child protection practitioner : Identifying as a strengths-based child protection practitioner -- Educating the strengths-based child protection practitioner -- Supporting the strengths-based child protection practitioner -- Section four summary: looking back, out, and forward. Appendix: role plays -- References -- Index.
Summary:
"Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work. The demand for this protection practice has increased faster than the availability of training resources to help students and practitioners, until now. Strengths-Based Child Protection is the first textbook solely dedicated to furthering strengths-based practices in a child protection setting. Carolyn Oliver provides an original, accessible, and practical research-based model that focuses on the key to success in this field: the worker-client relationship. Oliver's long and varied front line experience in child welfare and research based on surveys and interviews with 225 child protection workers provides grounding in the realities of child protection work. Strengths-Based Child Protection contains a rich combination of case studies, reflective questions, and exercises that enable students and practitioners to conceptualize and master implementing strengths-based practices with children."-- Provided by publisher.
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