The Child's World, Third Edition: The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families

By: Julie Taylor and David Jones and Michael Murphy and Emma Palmer and Gillian Ruch and David Shemmings and Yvonne Shemmings and Jane Barlow and Danielle Turney and Dendy Platt and Audrey Tait and Helen Wosu and Arnon Bentovim and Jenny Gray and Claudia Bernard and Simon Hackett and Jan Horwath and Emily Munro and Stephen Pizzey and Michaela Rogers and Ruth Marchant and Emilie Smeaton and Beth Tarleton and Nadine Tilbury and Katherine Bishop and Dave Backwith and Christine Gould and Barbara Lawrie and Jane Appleton and Karen Whittaker and Stan Houston and Aideen Naughton and Liz Hadcroft and Dawn Hodson and Patrick Neil

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Synopsis: This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic factors. This new edition has been extended substantially to include recent practice, policy and theoretical developments, such as understanding the lived experience of children, young people, and family members. It also considers children's neurological development, assessing parental capacity to change, early help assessments, emerging areas of practice such as child sexual exploitation, and working with asylum-seeking and trafficked children.Crucially, this updated edition takes a broader approach in offering relevant information to a range of professionals working with vulnerable children. The importance of inter-professional working is emphasised throughout.