Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families

✍ Scribed by Julie Taylor, June Thoburn

• Publisher: Routledge;CRC Press;Taylor & Francis (CAM)
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 133
• Series: CAIPE Collaborative Practice Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by professionals who work across disciplines to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing complex difficulties. It establishes the importance of both interprofessional and interagency collaboration.

After detailing the characteristics of parents and children who may be in need of specialized services, the authors describe different approaches to service delivery in theory and practice, provide case examples and exercises, and address the developments in interprofessional education for those currently working in the field. They present evidence supporting collaborative practice as a means of achieving better outcomes for vulnerable children and their families, and explore the difficulties in working successfully across agencies and disciplines.

A provocative examination focused on the wellbeing of families in crisis and the care they receive, this book:

• Introduces terms that are used in collaborative practice
• Details the legal mandate for working with families experiencing complex problems
• Provides legal definitions of ‘children in need’ and with a right to receive "targeted" services
• Outlines the circumstances that require court action (family law and criminal law) to protect children from "significant harm"

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families examines the values and ethical standards shared by all professionals who work together to help at-risk children and their families, and serves as a definitive guide to professionals in social work, nursing, general practice, pediatrics and related professions.

A volume in the series CAIPE Collaborative Practice Series
Series edited by Hugh Barr and Marion Helme

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Collaborative Practice: An Essential Component of the Service to Vulnerable Children and Their Families Introduction: Why This Workbook and Why Now? The Mandate to Work Collaboratively The Organisation of Service Delivery to Support Collaborative Practice Interprofessional Education and Training for Collaborative Practice with Children and Families Key Texts on Collaborative Working and IPE Who Are the Children and Families Most Likely to Need Additional Supportive and Protective Services? Introduction Which Children and Families Are Most Likely to Be in Need of Additional Services? What 'Additional Services' Might Be Needed? Case Vignettes Key Texts on Children and Families Most Likely to Need Additional Supportive and Protective Services Working Collaboratively within Legal Mandates and Statutory Guidance Overview of the Legislative Powers and Duties The Legislation The Duty to Collaborate Services Provided with Parental and Older Child Agreement Compulsory Intervention Statutory Orders Limiting or Terminating Parental Rights and Responsibility Criminal Investigations Collaborative Working When Children Are Looked After Key Texts on Working Collaboratively within Legal Mandates and Statutory Guidance The Value Base for Working Collaboratively with Vulnerable Children and Families Introduction: Shared Professional Values Professional Codes of Ethics and Standards Registered Professionals Record Keeping and Confidentiality Confidentiality and Information Sharing in Practice Key Texts on Value Base for Working Collaboratively with Vulnerable Children and Families The Knowledge-Base for Collaborative Practice The Policy Dimension Messages from Research and Evaluations about Collaborative Practice Issues Emerging from the Theoretical and Practice Literature Conclusion Key Texts on the Knowledge-Base for Collaborative Practice Towards Effective Collaborative Practice Introduction Some Approaches to Helping Vulnerable Children and Families The Essential Elements of Effective Interprofessional Collaboration Collaborative Practice in Action with 'Vignette' Families Conclusion Key Texts on Effective Collaborative Practice CAIPE/Radcliffe Collaborative Practice Workbooks: Series Appendix References

✦ Subjects

Enfants -- Protection, assistance, etc. -- Grande-Bretagne.;Violence familiale -- Grande-Bretagne.;Child welfare -- Great Britain.;Family violence -- Great Britain.;Child welfare.;Family violence.;Great Britain.