Working with Children: Assessment, Representation and Intervention

Written for professionals working with children and young people who require support, assessment, or intervention at home or in school, this interdisciplinary book explores everything from the legislative background and foundations of ideas in the social sciences, to dealing with children's distress, fear, or special needs in professional practice.

This book is an excellent resource for those who either work with children in CAMHS settings, social work, youth work, counseling, psychology, general education and special educational needs, or who are undertaking professional training in any of the above fields.

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Working with Children: Assessment, Representation and Intervention

Written for professionals working with children and young people who require support, assessment, or intervention at home or in school, this interdisciplinary book explores everything from the legislative background and foundations of ideas in the social sciences, to dealing with children's distress, fear, or special needs in professional practice.

This book is an excellent resource for those who either work with children in CAMHS settings, social work, youth work, counseling, psychology, general education and special educational needs, or who are undertaking professional training in any of the above fields.

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Working with Children: Assessment, Representation and Intervention

Working with Children: Assessment, Representation and Intervention

by Tom Billington
Working with Children: Assessment, Representation and Intervention

Working with Children: Assessment, Representation and Intervention

by Tom Billington

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Overview

Written for professionals working with children and young people who require support, assessment, or intervention at home or in school, this interdisciplinary book explores everything from the legislative background and foundations of ideas in the social sciences, to dealing with children's distress, fear, or special needs in professional practice.

This book is an excellent resource for those who either work with children in CAMHS settings, social work, youth work, counseling, psychology, general education and special educational needs, or who are undertaking professional training in any of the above fields.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412908696
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 08/28/2006
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Billington is Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the practitioner Doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Sheffield. He provides Expert Witness assessments in Children Act proceedings and is Chair of the British Psychological Society Working Party on Childhood Autism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Thinking About Young People And Childhood
Young People And The Children's Workforce
Assessing Children And Young People In Social Contexts
Representing Children And Young People In Assessments
Children Feeling, Thinking And Learning
Voices Of Children And Young People In Assessment
Working With Autistic Children
Narrative Science
Ethics, Commitment And The Limits of Advocacy: Public And Private Lives

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