1st Edition
Beyond Blame Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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What can we learn from inquiries into cases of fatal child abuse? Beyond Blame offers a new way of looking at such cases and shows that it is possible to draw important lessons from them. The authors, all three experienced in child protection work, summarise thirty-five major inquiries since 1973, setting them in their social context and discussing the implications both for practical work in the... Read more
Foreword by Professor Olive Stevenson. Acknowledgements. Introduction. The Wider Context. Tragedies Revisited. The Families. The Meaning of the Child. Inter-professional Communication. The Professional Networks. The Assessment Process. The Family-professional Systems. The Case as a Whole. Beyond Blame. Appendix: Summaries of the Cases. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Dr Peter Reder, Sylvia Duncan, Moira Gray
'...a very important theoretical contribution to the child abuse literature...' - Clare Roskill, Times Educational Supplement
