Psychological strength, or resilience, directly affects a child's capacity to cope with adversity. This book provides a succinct, accessible and clear guide on how to promote resilience in children and achieve positive developmental outcomes for them.
This title provides detailed information on the different types of crime from assault and hate crime to cyberbullying and sexual abuse, and explores how they may affect the young person in different ways.
Nigel Parton and Corrine Wattam
This important volume explores children s needs in the context of the policy, practice, legal and organisational responses to child sexual abuse.
An accessible resource to help those in organisational settings ensure that they have taken all possible steps to safeguard the children and young people they are responsible for.
This state–of–the–art, comprehensive handbook offers chapters from experts from a variety of backgrounds on the spectrum of issues related to child sexual abuse, from its identification and assessment, to its treatment, and prevention.
People with learning difficulties are considerably more likely to experience sexual violence than those without, and for this reason they are often described as 'vulnerable'. This is an essential book for practitioners working with people with learning difficulties, as well as students and academics in the fields of disability and social work.
Deborah D. Gray
This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal.
Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in the physical world.
This title considers the way we approach violence and safeguarding in childhood, exploring the victimization of children as well as children who use violence towards others.
Carolyn Davies and Harriet Ward
Based on the latest research, this book gives practical and accessible advice for those involved in safeguarding children.
This new and updated edition of the best-selling book on assessing children in need and their families integrates practice, policy and theory to produce a comprehensive and multidisciplinary guide to all aspects of assessment.
This highly accessible and informative book offers practical strategies for the protection of children that all parents, teachers, and anyone involved in the life of a child will find indispensable.