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Edited Ward - Helping Families in Family Centers: Working at Therapeutic Practice - 9781853028359 - V9781853028359
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Helping Families in Family Centers: Working at Therapeutic Practice

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Description for Helping Families in Family Centers: Working at Therapeutic Practice Paperback. The book is a comprehensive guide for family centre workers, and for all social workers working with children and families. Based on a psychodynamic approach emphasising the central importance of attachment in relationships, the book also applies systemic ideas and the 'therapeutic community' approach to the overall design of the centres. Editor(s): McMahon, Linnet; Ward, Adrian. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JKSB; JMH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 435.

The first text to look in detail at the delivery and management of therapeutic work in family centres, this much-needed book gives practical guidance for professionals working with children and families. The contributors show how family centres form a key element of `joined-up' work with families in need, providing both practical and emotional support for parents as well as children.

Based on a psychodynamic approach emphasising the central importance of attachment in relationships, the book also applies systemic ideas and the `therapeutic community' approach to the overall design and management of the centres. Particular examples of therapeutic interventions discussed ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853028359
SKU
V9781853028359
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1

About Edited Ward
Adrian Ward works is the Programme Director of the qualifying MA in Social Work at the Tavistock Centre, London. His background is in residential child care and he has written extensively about residential care, group care and therapeutic approaches to social work, and co-edited several books in this field; he was editor of the journal Therapeutic Communities from 1999 to ... Read more

Reviews for Helping Families in Family Centers: Working at Therapeutic Practice
McMahon and Ward offer a spirited defence of therapeutic social work as it is practiced in family centres and which, as the last contributor suggests, can be successfully transferred to other social work settings. This book is bursting with ideas and principles which will be of interested to all those who are concerned with helping children and families.
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