Book chapter
The context for practice with children, young people, and their families
Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability: A Partnership Approach, pp.7-26
Cambridge University Press
09/05/2023
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Abstract
To work effectively with children, young people, and families experiencing vulnerabilities, practitioners need to understand risk and protective factors that influence children’s safety and development. They also require familiarity with policy and practice frameworks that underpin responsive and critically reflective practice. Increasingly, workers are required to engage in trauma-informed, ethical practice, as discussed in this chapter. Risk and protective factors that contribute to, or shield children from, child abuse and/or neglect are present in all families, to a greater or lesser extent, and at different points in the family life cycle. Fortunately, most children thrive within their families and communities. An understanding of risk factors in child maltreatment, and the factors that protect children from maltreatment helps us to identify children and young people likely to experience poorer outcomes and to provide them with support.
Details
- Title
- The context for practice with children, young people, and their families
- Creators
- Menka TsantefskiSusan Heward-Belle
- Contributors
- Susan Heward-Belle (Editor) - University of SydneyMenka Tsantefski (Editor) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability: A Partnership Approach, pp.7-26
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Identifiers
- 991013154203202368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Centre for Children and Young People
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter