Name: Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities By Julie Adams
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Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities Summary

Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities by Julie Adams

Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities provides a comprehensive social worker's guide to working with children with disabilities, exploring current issues from the perspective of both the social worker and the family. Many people are afraid of working in this field of social work and this book dispels the myths and fears about working with children with disabilities and build the social worker's confidence in an area that is often left behind within the social work world.

The book will help you to:

undertake a social work assessment with a child with a disability
consider the holistic needs of the child and the family
explore the impact of grief and loss upon the family
build emotional intelligence and resilience within families.
communicate with children with disabilities communication techniques.

The new SEND legislation and issues around Safeguarding of Children with Disabilities and Transition to Adult Social Care for the young person are explored, and activities and scenarios help you to critically reflect and explore theory and practice further

About Julie Adams

Julie began working in residential care in 1992, working within children's disability before moving to mainstream settings. Having qualified in 1999 she then moved to field Social Work and has worked in a variety of settings including child protection, adoption, looked after children and also had a brief spell working overseas. Julie worked her way through the ranks from Social Worker to Team Manager and has also spent some time working in a hospital setting with adults with complex health and permanent conditions. Julie has mentored Social Workers and delivers training with Angie and is always looking for new learning experiences.

Diana Leshone began working with children and families in 1989 starting in a Family Centre in partnership with Save the Children Fund and the Local authority. Her direct work includes assessments, direct work with children, crisis response, court work, behaviour management including developing and delivering courses, parenting skills, and disabilities. Diana has managed a Resource Centre and a Children's Centre whilst continuing to have children's needs in focus. She qualified as a social worker in 2009 and joined a children's disability team progressing to senior social worker. Diana has delivered training with Julie and is continually looking to share her practice wisdom to others in this field.

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NGR9781910391945

ISBN 13

9781910391945

ISBN 10

1910391948

Title

Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities by Julie Adams

Author

Julie Adams

Series

Critical Skills for Social Work

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Critical Publishing Ltd

Year published

2016-05-20

Number of pages

264

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N/A

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Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities Julie Adams

Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities by Julie Adams

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