The New Life Work Model: Practice Guide - Softcover

Nicholls, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903855810 ISBN 13: 9781903855812

Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

'The New Life Work Model - Practice Guide' aims to help children who've been separated from their birth families to make sense of their life, and more ably face the challenges the future may bring. This guide gives agencies and practitioners the facility to enhance what they offer to youngsters in relation to life work.

About this title

Synopsis

Children who have been separated from their birth families, whether this is temporarily or permanently, are likely to be denied access to childhood memories, explanation and understanding. How, then, can they possibly begin to understand their life and move forwards? "The New Life Work Model" aims to help these children make sense of their life, preserve their memories, offer explanation, promote genetic identity and more ably face the challenges the future may bring. The Practice Guide gives agencies and practitioners the opportunity to enhance what they offer to children and young people in relation to Life Work. It shows how to make the complexities of Life Work a more achievable and effective practice by integration in the care planning process, creating shared responsibility for its completion, and broadening its focus from immediate to lifelong needs. It shows practitioners and carers how to use accompanying "Memory Books" ("My Memory Book 0-4", "My Memory Book 4+", "My Memory Book 8+", all available from RHP) so they can meet the Life Work needs of all children separated from their birth families.

About the Author

Edith Nicholls is an Adoption Support Social Worker with a local authority. She has over 24 years social work experience and has worked in education, generic social work, child protection and finally specialising in the field of Adoption and Fostering. She is also the author of What Does Adopted Mean? A Young Child's Guide to Adoption (RHP 2005)

Edition details

• Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903855810
• ISBN 13: 9781903855812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228