You are here

Residential Child Care
Share

Residential Child Care
Collaborative Practice


July 2006 | 168 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice is an innovative book which addresses the specific context of modern residential child care while promoting collaborative practice within a wider social work setting. The book analyzes the collaborative role of organizations, field workers, parents, teachers, and children, and stresses how these interprofessional relationships are crucial to ensuring children's wellbeing.

Key Features:

  • Is founded on fundamental social work principles, values and ethics
  • Encourages collaborative practice by identifying how each professions' roles differ
  • Seeks to dispel 'barriers' that inhibit effective collaboration
  • Draws upon examples of good practice
  • Includes views and experiences of children and young people
  • Integrates relevant aspects of the social work Benchmark statement

Comprehensive and accessible, the book includes learning outcomes, activities, and case studies to help aid students' understanding. The book successfully balances its theoretical context with a focus on practice, making it an invaluable resource for students and practitioners. It will be useful for social work and social care students, trainee residential workers, and professionals who have an interest in working with looked after children.


 
Perceptions and Realities in Residential Child Care
 
What Do We Mean by Collaborative Practice?
 
Understanding Ethics in Collaborative Practice
 
Understanding Organizations and Groups in the Context of Collaborative Practice
 
Social Workers and Residential Workers
The Key Collaborative Relationship

 
 
Inter-Professional Collaboration
Working with Health and Education Professionals

 
 
Positive about Parents
Working in Partnership

 
 
Collaborating with Children and Young People
 
Conclusion
Children Tell it Like It Is

 

Sample Materials & Chapters

Introduction


Select a Purchasing Option


Rent or Buy eBook
ISBN: 9781849203678

Hardcover
ISBN: 9781412908504
$201.00

Paperback
ISBN: 9781412908511
$64.00

This title is also available on SAGE Knowledge, the ultimate social sciences online library. If your library doesn’t have access, ask your librarian to start a trial.