Description: Rethinking Residential Child Care : Positive Perspectives, Paperback by Smith, Mark, ISBN 1861349084, ISBN-13 9781861349088, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This critical analysis of residential child care within the scope of UK social work is designed for practitioners and researchers who have a stake in the current debate between continued regulation and a more personal approach of quality care and upbringing. Smith (social work, U. of Edinburgh, UK) favors a more positive and personalized approach, and he examines the history, policy directions and current assessment techniques in the field that many social workers find impersonal and frustrating. The author supplies recommendations for "working at the boundaries" between personalized and professional practice and introduces the tradition European model of social pedagogy as an alternative. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Rethinking Residential Child Care : Positive Perspectives
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Rethinking Residential Child Care : Positive Perspectives
Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Subject: Social Work, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Author: Mark Smith
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
