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Turning a blind eye or daring to see: How might consultation and clinical interventions help looked after children and their carers to help with mental pain?
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Research skills for social work
No full textSocial Work students often find research an intimidating and complex area of study, with many struggling to understand the core concepts and their application to practice. This book presents these concepts in an accessible and user-friendly way. Key skills and methods such as literature reviews, interviews, and questionnaires are explored in detail while the underlying ethical reasons for doing good research underpin the text. For this second edition, new material on ethnography is added
Incorporating multi-family days into parenting assessments: The Writtle Wick model
No full textThis paper describes a project undertaken by family centre staff, drawing on the ideas of the Marlborough Family Service in using multi-family groups as part of their parenting assessments. Child protection assessments are complex and have a far reaching effect on the lives of vulnerable children; practitioners can carry the burden of assessing parents' capacities to meet their children's needs without adequate supervision or support. Our project was developed following the implementation of a new policy, the Public Law Outline, requiring parenting assessments to be completed within a 40-week time frame. We were concerned that this would not afford the opportunity to develop a sufficient relationship with families to provide a thorough assessment. The paper describes the incorporation of multi-family days into the parenting assessments and the effect of this work on clients and practitioners. This paper is a practice paper, rather than a formal evaluation, and describes a project in which family centre workers sought to provide a model of assessment based on working as part of a team, managing uncertainty and valuing the opportunity to develop a relationship with clients in order to make an assessment
Autism, literal language and concrete thinking: Some developmental considerations
No full textThe author's aim in this article is to dwell on some developmental considerations that are relevant for explaining abnormalities in the language of individuals with autism and Asperger's syndrome. We face a major challenge in achieving an appropriate level of focus as we move between a perspective on the development of specifically linguistic functioning among children with autism, and concern with broader atypicalities in these individuals' social–relational and communicative engagement. This challenge is illustrated by the need to clarify what we mean when we refer to “literal language” and “concrete thinking” among persons with autism
From reactive to reflective: Evidence for shifts in parents’ state of mind during brief under-fives psychoanalytic psychotherapy
No full textThis article describes a study that was designed to examine the impact of brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children under-five years of age and their families. The work took place in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in England, to which children are routinely referred with a range of behavioural and emotional problems. The study examined the hypothesis that through formulating the emotional forces that underpin the family’s here-and-now experiences and bringing into the frame the child’s perspective, a shift in the parents’ states of mind from being less reactive and more reflective would be observed. Further, the less reactive parental state would result in the child feeling more contained, and impact positively in relation to symptom presentation. Using clinical description and quantitative data drawn from the videotaped clinical material the hypothesis was tested on seven families. The prediction was borne out, significantly so in relation to the parents being less blaming and more reparative in their comments. Parental reports also highlighted that six of the seven children exhibited a significant reduction / termination of symptoms for which they had been originally referred. The therapeutic process underlying these results is considered