Child-Centred Foster Care: A Rights-Based Model for Practice

Author:   Annabel Goodyer
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN:  

9781849051743


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 August 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Annabel Goodyer
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9781849051743


ISBN 10:   1849051747
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Section 1. Introduction.; 1. Setting out the Terrain: Facts, Theoretical Frameworks and Knowledge-Base.; 1. Introduction.; 2. Theory and Statutory Frameworks. Children and Young People's Views about Being Fostered.; 3. Introduction to Current Fostering Knowledge and Practice.; 4. Children and Young People's Views about Being Fostered. Theory and Statutory Frameworks; Section 2. Setting out the Evidence-Base.; 5. A Research Study and Findings about Children Moving into Foster Homes.; 6. Children's Views about Living with Foster Carers and about Fostering Systems.; 7. Examples of Good Practice, Including 'International Best Practice'; Section 3. Towards Best Practice.; 8. How to Communicate with and Support Children who are Fostered, Including Advocacy as a Social Work Method with Children and Young People.; 9. Decision-making, Shared Decision-making and Maintaining Corporate Parenting Relationships.; 10. Selecting Carers.; 11. Joined-up Service Provision.; 12. Conclusion: Towards Better Outcomes for Foster Children.

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This is a book which anyone working with children and young people in foster care needs on his/her shelves. -- Children & Society The author's model is aspirational, informed by children and young people's views, and give practical advice on effective communication and participation... overall the book offers a very useful review of developments in fostering practice, and utilises a wide evidence base. It is well-structured and would be of interest to a broad range of practitioners. -- Children & Young People Now Based on thorough, sociologically informed research into children's stories about being fostered, this book challenges some of the dominant theoretical and conceptual approaches to understanding children's experiences... [It is] an excellent review of literature as well as a research-informed text in its own right..[and] offer[s] real possibilities for a way forward and for shaking up professional vocabularies about children and fostering where these have become stale. -- From the Foreword by Sue White, Professor of Social Work (Children and Families), University of Birmingham, UK This book... promotes a rights-based approach to social work with children and young people in foster care... This is an interesting and somewhat challenging book. It is not difficult to read or follow and offers interesting, valuable and usable information. Social workers working with children in care or with their caregivers, as well as managers and those involved in the provision of foster care services, should read this book and keep it close by as a book to refer to... A must read for anyone interested in the provision of child-focused social work with children in care. -- Jacques Coulton, ANZASW Member * Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work *


This is a book which anyone working with children and young people in foster care needs on his/her shelves. -- Children & Society The author's model is aspirational, informed by children and young people's views, and give practical advice on effective communication and participation... overall the book offers a very useful review of developments in fostering practice, and utilises a wide evidence base. It is well-structured and would be of interest to a broad range of practitioners. -- Children & Young People Now Based on thorough, sociologically informed research into children's stories about being fostered, this book challenges some of the dominant theoretical and conceptual approaches to understanding children's experiences... [It is] an excellent review of literature as well as a research-informed text in its own right..[and] offer[s] real possibilities for a way forward and for shaking up professional vocabularies about children and fostering where these have become stale. -- From the Foreword by Sue White, Professor of Social Work (Children and Families), University of Birmingham, UK This book... promotes a rights-based approach to social work with children and young people in foster care... This is an interesting and somewhat challenging book. It is not difficult to read or follow and offers interesting, valuable and usable information. Social workers working with children in care or with their caregivers, as well as managers and those involved in the provision of foster care services, should read this book and keep it close by as a book to refer to... A must read for anyone interested in the provision of child-focused social work with children in care. -- Jacques Coulton, ANZASW Member Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work


This book... promotes a rights-based approach to social work with children and young people in foster care... This is an interesting and somewhat challenging book. It is not difficult to read or follow and offers interesting, valuable and usable information. Social workers working with children in care or with their caregivers, as well as managers and those involved in the provision of foster care services, should read this book and keep it close by as a book to refer to... A must read for anyone interested in the provision of child-focused social work with children in care. -- Jacques Coulton, ANZASW Member * Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work * Based on thorough, sociologically informed research into children's stories about being fostered, this book challenges some of the dominant theoretical and conceptual approaches to understanding children's experiences... [It is] an excellent review of literature as well as a research-informed text in its own right..[and] offer[s] real possibilities for a way forward and for shaking up professional vocabularies about children and fostering where these have become stale. -- From the Foreword by Sue White, Professor of Social Work (Children and Families), University of Birmingham, UK The author's model is aspirational, informed by children and young people's views, and give practical advice on effective communication and participation... overall the book offers a very useful review of developments in fostering practice, and utilises a wide evidence base. It is well-structured and would be of interest to a broad range of practitioners. -- Children & Young People Now This is a book which anyone working with children and young people in foster care needs on his/her shelves. -- Children & Society


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Annabel Goodyer is Principal Lecturer for Social Work, London South Bank University, UK. She is a qualified social worker and has many years' experience working with children and families.

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