Duncan Helm

Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment

How to Interpret Children's Needs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. This book aims to support workers in analysing and making sense of the information gathered, and increase accuracy and empathy in assessing the needs and risks for vulnerable children and young people.

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Produktdetails

• Best Practice in Working with Children
• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781843109235
• ISBN-10: 1843109239
• Artikelnr.: 28172070

Autorenporträt

Duncan Helm is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Stirling, where he is Course Director for the Graduate Certificate in Child Welfare and Protection. Duncan previously worked in a variety of local authority child and family settings, and is now primarily engaged in continuing professional development for practitioners involved in working with or on behalf of vulnerable children and young people.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Foreword. Glossary. 1. Making Sense of Analysis. 2.
Searching and Seeing in Assessment. 3. Building the Picture. 4. Developing
Explanations. 5. Using Intuition Effectively. 6. The Child at the Centre.
7. Developing Practice in Analysis. Bibliography. Index.