Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families
Creative Tools and Resources for Practice
Jan Horwath author Stevie Wilkinson author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publishing:21st Jan '25
£29.99
This title is due to be published on 21st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A rich resource of adaptable, downloadable practical tools and activities to assist practitioners in establishing relationships and engage with families to improve outcomes for vulnerable children.
Combining a range of activities and tools that have been developed and tested by practitioners, this book supports practitioners who wish to take a person-centred approach to establishing relationships with family members, understanding their past and current lived experiences and the impact of this on outcomes for children and young people.
Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families is the practical go-to resource for practitioners looking to build effective relationships and engage meaningfully with vulnerable children and their families.
Compiled by Jan Horwath, lead editor of the bestselling child protection handbook The Child's World, the text features a wealth of clear, user-friendly, creative materials. The tools draw on evidence-based research and have been developed and tested by frontline practitioners from a range of disciplines working in Rochdale. Each tool includes a practice example as well as detail about aims, method, things to think about and possible adaptations. The tools can be used in a variety of work settings and the downloadable, versatile resources are all designed to support a relational approach to practice.
These tools will help you establish relationships with both children and their primary carers, understand their lived experience and the impact of this on the health and well-being of the child or adolescent. Additional tools are included for use with parents and primary carers to explore parenting capacity and the socio-economic factors that influence family life.
This delightful compendium of creative ways to work with children, parents and carers is an incredible treasure trove of resources for any professional. It will be invaluable for new workers or students, but with my 35 years of experience I still found loads of new ways of working with children, from online support through to games and new ways of bringing old favourites like genograms to life, so I would recommend it as the perfect resource for anyone working with children and their families. This is partly because the wonderful illustrations and concrete case examples bring alive the approaches and is partly because there are just so many ideas here - it is bursting with exciting and interesting ways of working with children and families. The author, illustrator and the many workers and children who helped create this fantastic resource have done us all a huge service. Thank you! -- Donald Forrester, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Cardiff University
It is essential that practitioners across services in Education, Social care, Fostering and Looked After Children's Services, Health, and Offending services develop the skills to make connections with vulnerable children, young people, and their parents.
Jan Horwath, Steve Wilkinson, Andy Wilkinson and their many collaborators provide a comprehensive, detailed, accessible, gold mine of downloadable, practical tools culled from many sources, to promote effective communication.
Most importantly, through guidance and extensive case histories the practitioner is introduced to approaches to connect effectively with vulnerable children and their families, using the tools to promote understanding of lived experiences and transform their lives.
'I wish I had this book when I first qualified! It's packed with an impressive array of practical, evidence-based tools. Frontline social workers can easily grab this resource from their desks-right next to their cup of tea-before rushing out to see families. User-friendly and backed by real-life examples, it's an essential companion for all social workers.' -- Richard Devine, Consultant Social Worker
ISBN: 9781787757943
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 41g
256 pages