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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.
How Do I Assess Child and Youth Emotional States?
How Do I Assess Child and Youth Emotional States?
The emotional experience of a child or adult is one of the most complex aspects of human existence. It is also one of the most fragile. At the most basic level, emotions consist of private internal sensations that can be experienced and described only by the individual. Emotions experienced internally, however, influence all other aspects of behavior and thought, resulting in observable changes that reflect different emotional states. For example, children from the preschool period onward can label the internal sensations associated with experiencing anger, and it is usually relatively easy for adults to identify the outward, behavioral manifestations of anger in the typically ...
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