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The Handbook for Child Protection Protection Practice presents a comprehensive and critical portrait of the phenomenon of neglect. Drawing on theory, research and clinical practice experience, the contributors cover issues facing social workers. They provide a view of child neglect which moves beyond the current child welfare focus on parental omissions in care. Organized in question and answer format, topics covered include: engaging with the client; initial assessments for factors such as neglect and physical and sexual abuse; how to assess the family; interventions with various different emphases; and safeguarding the social workers well-being: legally, physically and mentally.
What Interventions are Available for the Nonabusive Parent?
What Interventions are Available for the Nonabusive Parent?
Although the service needs of abused children and abusers are generally acknowledged, the service needs of non-abusive parents may be easy to overlook. In fact, non-abusive parents have sometimes been blamed rather than helped. Nonabusive partners may be either men or women, although most research and discussion have focused on nonabusive mothers, particularly in sexual abuse cases in which they are sometimes labeled as “unprotective,” “unsupportive,” or “in collusion with the abusive parent.” For example, it has been suggested that some women may actually seek out and marry child molesters based on some presumed (and unproven) unconscious psychopathology, possibly related to their own abuse history. In particular, mothers in incest ...
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