250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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While social work practice with child abuse is a well-documented topic, this revised edition of Social Work and Child Abuse actually challenges and changes the focus of existing literature. Instead of concerning itself with the ways in which the task of preventing and detecting child abuse can be more effectively undertaken, it presents a critical analysis of the task itself.
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Introduction to 2006 edition 1. Teaching or preaching? 2. Questions of theory 3. Still walking the tightrope? 4. The 1989 Children Act: a significant shift? 5. A stitch in time: the men from the ministry 6. The 1960s and the short-lived 'triumph' of treament 7. Moral panic and Maria Colwell 8. Back to the future
Biography
Dave Merrick (The Open University, UK)
