Constructing Meaning and Identities in Child Protection Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864583354 ISBN 13: 9780864583352

Synopsis

This book examines a contemporary and contentious social problem, child maltreatment, and the policy and practice in response to it, child protection. In doing so, it explores how authoritative knowledge of this social problem is generated through professional practice. Its approach is to trace how reports that 'something happened' to a child are transformed through child protection intervention into categories of maltreatment and associated identities of responsibility. The book also explores the legal and cultural assumptions that influence child protection practice, as well as perceptions about the children themselves and how their welfare may be protected. Constructing Meanings and Identities in Child Protection Practice is an important addition to child protection literature. While it will be of most interest to postgraduate students of child protection, the book will also be warmly welcomed by the professional social worker. As well, it deserves a place in undergraduate courses in social work, human service programs, psychology, social welfare and allied health.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0864583354
• ISBN 13: 9780864583352
• Binding: Paperback