Child Neglect and Emotional Abuse: Understanding, Assessment and Response

Protecting children from emotional abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice. The difficult y determining exactly when questionable care becomes abusive demands great skill, resilience and courage, so it's unsurprisingly a cause of anxiety for many students. In this book, Celia Doyle and Charles Timms join forces to take your students step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children. Locating knowledge and skills within a series of case examples, - Part 1 introduces your students to the nature and consequences of neglect and emotional abuse, before moving on to describe, in detail, the assessment process. - Part 2 provides your students with insights into positive interventions, including some innovative modern therapies and family management approaches such as "PACT". This book is essential reading for all your undergraduate and postgraduate students of social work.