Summary
Contents
Subject index
Considering safeguarding across the life span and placing it within a multiagency context, this book gives students a grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice along the way. It includes reference to the latest legislation, skills for practice, a breadth of contexts and service-user groups, drawing on a range of case studies, activities, reflective questions and recommending reading from across health and social care. Locating age specific concerns in context and divided into sections which cover every stage of life, it addresses questions of culture, gender and problems frequently encountered in practice and what these mean for safeguarding and law.
Theories for safeguarding practice
Theories for safeguarding practice
Chapter aims
This chapter enables the reader to:
- understand the life course perspective in relation to safeguarding practice
- explore psychological theories of development
Introduction
Since this book is concerned with safeguarding across the life span, we start with an examination of life course theory before examining other developmental theories.
Life Course Health Development Perspective
A recent, influential North American publication explores the concept of life course health development. This concept views individuals as adapting over their lives in response to both biological processes and environmental influences. Biological development is thought of as malleable (plastic) because the influence of the environment can affect how biological development spins out, particularly during sensitive periods of development. Healthy development occurs when there is ...
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