Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

Social workers involved in child sexual abuse work have key powers and duties in civil law to protect children. All too often, they bear the brunt of criticism when the system fails. Written for professionals, Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases examines the complex nature of such cases, and explores the problems encountered by local authority social workers who are required to intervene in families to protect children.Using material from forty case studies, Brian Corby analyzes the context in which child sexual abuse is managed, and the intervention practices of social workers (and other professionals) within this context. From this, he draws out what policies and practices are effective, and why. He studies the historical background to child protection, and the curious ambivalence of society's attitude to cases of child sexual abuse. While emphasizing the difficulties of providing an adequate intervention system, he argues for greater co-operation between agencies, and recommends greater focus on the provision of more resources for treatment of children and families rather than concentrating on detection, investigation and prosecution of offenders.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-07-01
Mått:158 x 233 x 10 mm
Vikt:306 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN:9781853025938

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Mer om författaren

The late Brian Corby was a senior lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. He specialized in child protection studies and has been the author of two previous books on the subject.

Recensioner i media

Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases is easy to read, flowing consistently over eleven chapters. Corby makes use of subtitles to assist the reader and the material is both logical and relevant. Corby tracks through history the various attitudes and reactions to child sexual abuse, before discussing how current thinking has impacted on current practice... Overall Corby offers the reader interesting opinions on how societal opinion informs our practice. His proposals for improving intervention do much to enhance the ongoing debate on how social workers can improve practice which will benefit the families in the long-term, as well as offer protection in the immediate-term for the children.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. 1. History and Ideas. 2. Developing a Response to Child Sexual Abuse. 3. Aims and Methodology. 4. Setting the Scene. 5. The Cases. 6. Investigating Child Sexual Abuse. 7. Protecting Children and Helping Families - The Child Protection Conference. 8. Ongoing Work with Families in the Six-Month Period following the Conference. 9. Two Years On from the Initial Conference. 10. Social Work Practice and Child Sexual Abuse. 11. Managing Child Sexual Abuse: Policy Issues. Appendix 1: The Forty Case Studies, by Category. Appendix 2: View from the Parents. References. Index.