Human development is about the growth of agency, which is developed in interaction with their parents and families but if parental agency is insufficient, agency in the form of child welfare will be required to fill the gaps.
This book provides an holistic view of how children develop agency, combining social, psychological and child development aspects, as well as examining child welfare structures and the roles of social workers. This focus will make a contribution to current debates about child welfare and child protection and the book will therefore be essential reading for academics and researchers in social work, childhood studies, children's policy and social policy.
Price: $44.95
Pages: 168
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
01 August 2013
ISBN: 9781447306290
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, Age groups: children, Child welfare and youth services
"This is a wide-ranging exploration of child welfare, based in psychology but drawing ideas from across the human sciences. It provides a strong argument for the centrality of dialogic, narrative and language approaches to understanding children, families and their interactions with child welfare professionals." Christopher Hall, School of Medicine and Health and Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University
Carol van Nijnatten is a developmental psychologist and professor social studies of child welfare at the University of Utrecht. From 2004-2009 he was also professor of social work at Radboud University, Nijmegen. His current field of research is interactional analysis of professional interventions in child health care and child welfare. He published books and articles on child welfare; children of detained parents, psychodynamic developmental psychology, dialogical self theory and institutional communication.
Introduction; Child, welfare, agency; The development of individual agency; Social interaction and interactive agency; Social agency and social context; Diagnosis and dialogue; Change and co-construction; Dialogical management; Dialogical child welfare: conclusion.
