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Traditional ways of working with children and young people are giving way to new practices. Where practice solutions previously tended to be imposed on children and young people, professionals are now looking to engage them as vital partners in actively negotiated and co-constructed models of working.Combining social ecological and social constructionist perspectives drawn from a range of academic and practice disciplines, Working with Children and Young People explores and interrogates how ideas about childhood, policy and professional discourses change over time and, in turn, affect the issues faced by young people and their families. In particular, this important text:- Develops a critical and reflective approach to knowledge and practice explored vividly across a wide range of practice settings- Presents a new vision, where the focus is centrally on the child or young person and where dominant ideas are challenged- Explores how key concerns, such as professional power and children's rights, embed themselves in working relationships.Working with Children and Young People provides an innovative critical framework for all students on vocational and professional courses involving work with children and young people. It also offers illuminating reading for practitioners working with the 0–18 age group, whether in the statutory, voluntary or private sectors.

“Dann and O’Dell have achieved an impressive feat, presenting both the methodology and rationale for doing feminist developmental psychology in a truly accessible and engaging way. This is a vital resource which needs to be read by all undergraduates and students interested in child and individual development.”Erica Burman, author of Deconstructing Developmental Psychology and Professor of Education, The University of Manchester, UK“I have waited years for a book like this! There is nothing else out there that offers a critical approach to development at a level accessible to undergraduates. I highly recommend this text for use with students studying developmental psychology, human development, and related areas.”Sonja J. Ellis, Associate Professor in Human Development, The University of Waikato, New Zealand“A refreshing and welcome addition to the field of developmental psychology.”Charlotte Brownlow, Dean of the Graduate Research School, University of Southern Queensland, AustraliaThe Feminist Companion series includes titles that act as your friends and mentors in book form, supporting you in your studies, especially when things get tough.This companion equips you to question and re-evaluate what you think you know about attachment, developmental disability, neurodiversity, and a range of other formative childhood and individual development experiences, all through a feminist lens. In doing so, it makes the case for an intersectional approach to developmental psychology that considers how the different aspects of who we are influence our development.Key features include:•Five Reasons Why You Need a Feminist Companion – a helpful guide to what readers can expect to gain from this book•Activity boxes, suggesting ways you can put the theory you are learning into practice•See and Hear for Yourself boxes, signposting readers to where they can find real-world examples of the concepts covered•Summary sections that articulate the main points of each chapter and provide a useful revision aid•A glossary of key termsThe book maps to the British Psychological Society (BPS) curriculum on developmental psychology as well as the Quality Assessment Agency’s (QAA) Subject Benchmark Statement for Psychology.Charlotte Dann is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. Charlotte specialises in critical feminist qualitative research, exploring topics such as tattooed bodies, family life online and girlhoods.Lindsay O’Dell is Professor of Critical Developmental Psychology at The Open University, UK. Lindsay has worked on projects that have examined the health, development and social care of children and families, particularly focussing on children who are seen to be ‘different’ in some way.

Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories opens up new avenues for exploring children’s development as contextual, provisional and locally produced, rather than a unitary, universal and consistent process. This edited collection frames a critical exploration of the trajectory against which children are seen to be ‘different’ within three key themes: deconstructing ‘developmental tasks’, locating development and the limits of childhood. Examining the particular kinds of ‘transgressive’ development, contributors discuss instances of ‘difference’ including migration, work, assumptions of vulnerability, trans childhoods, friendships and involvement in crime. Including both empirical and theoretical discussions, the book builds on existing debates as part of the interrogation of ‘different childhoods’. This book provides essential reading for students wishing to explore notions of development while also being of interest to both academics and practitioners working across a broad area of disciplines such as developmental psychology, sociology, childhood studies and critical criminology.