Child protection practice / Harry Ferguson.

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Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction: child protection practice
  • Knocking on the door of history: the emergence of child protection practice
  • Child abuse and the development (and decline) of intimate child protection practice
  • Streets, housing estates, doorsteps: getting to the child
  • The home visit: houses and the struggle to protect the abused child
  • The reverberations of home visiting: going into the depths to protect children
  • Hospitals, office interviews and the emotional complexity of practice
  • Working with children in child protection
  • The importance of touch in child protection
  • Working with fathers
  • Working with mothers
  • Culturally sensitive child protection practice
  • Multi-agency working
  • Good authority and working with hostile and deceptive adults and overcoming resistance
  • Spaces for reflection 1: the car in child protection
  • Spaces for reflection 2: supervision and organisational practices that promote good child protection
  • Conclusion: intimate child protection practice.