Psychotherapies

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Way

Psychotherapies are commonly used therapies for children and young people. They can help children and families understand and resolve problems, change their behaviour and change the way they think and feel about their experiences.

Children's Advocacy in Wales: Organisational Challenges for Those Who Commission and Deliver Advocacy for Looked after Children

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pithouse ◽  
Odette Parry
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Step Change ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Direct Benefit ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Authority Area ◽  
The Way

Andrew Pithouse and Odette Parry set out results from a Welsh Assembly Government-funded study of all children's advocacy services commissioned by local authorities in Wales. The results are presented in relation to key organisational themes that include the characteristics of children's advocacy services in Wales and the views of advocacy services held by local authority staff. Particular prominence is given to matters concerning looked after children where it will be seen that (a) advocacy providers tend to deliver case- or issue-based services and do relatively less in the way of cause-based advocacy, (b) most advocacy providers see themselves as both insufficiently funded by and independent of those commissioning their services, (c) local authority staff typically view advocacy as a service of benefit to children and families rather than of any direct benefit to authorities and (d) there remain significant difficulties in providing advocacy for ‘hard-to-reach’ children such as fostered children, children in respite care and children placed out of the local authority area. The paper concludes that there is a strong case for national government in Wales to promote a step-change in the way children's advocacy is organised so that a more strategically coherent and regional approach is taken that can deliver an independent, equitable, accessible and more uniform quality of advocacy provision for vulnerable children and young people.

From vulnerability to risk: Consolidating state interventions towards Māori children and young people in New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-545
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Stanley ◽  
Sarah Monod de Froideville
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
The Political ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Progressive Policy ◽  
State Interventions

Vulnerability has been a guiding narrative to state interventions towards children and their families in New Zealand. This article shows how this progressive notion has been systematically managed to fit pre-established political and policy priorities. These processes have emphasised: (i) categorisations of risk to those who demonstrate vulnerabilities; (ii) pre-emptive, multi-agency involvement in the lives of those deemed potentially ‘vulnerable’; and (iii) a responsibilising expectation that children and families will avoid vulnerable situations and comply with interventions. This individualising logic of vulnerability has solidified policy interventions towards Māori, and re-emphasised colonial practices of viewing Māori children and young people as deficit-laden risks to be managed. With a late 2017 change in government, the political dalliance with vulnerability appears to be in decline. A new progressive policy discourse – of child ‘well-being’ and ‘best interests’ – is being engaged. Yet, the emphasis on risk, and its corresponding elements of pre-emption and responsibility, persist. These discursive and institutional arrangements will ensure that Māori remain perilously entrenched in welfare and justice systems.

A children’s perspective on child abuse

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mason ◽  
Jan Falloon
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Abusive Behaviour ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Discourses about child abuse are usually adult centred. In the research described in this paper young people were asked to give their perspectives on abuse. They described abusive behaviour as that perpetrated by persons who use their power to control those they consider as lesser.The young people described two forms of abuse. One was feeling let down by those with whom they are in an emotional relationship. The other was feeling discounted because of their age. The children and young people considered the right to negotiate or to have ‘two-way compromise’ as essential to the prevention of abuse. The power to disclose or not to disclose abuse was described as an important issue for children in enabling them to maintain some control over their situation.The research process and findings highlighted the way in which the institutionalisation of adult power over children as legitimate, excludes children’s knowledge on issues concerning them by preventing their participation in knowledge creating forums, and by discounting their competency as children to contribute.

Music therapy within an integrated project for families exposed to domestic violence: A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
Luke Annesley
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health Service ◽  
Therapy Interventions ◽  
Therapy Service

This article focuses on a collaborative project that took place from 2012 to 2015 between an NHS Music Therapy Service for children and young people, a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and the charity Housing for Women. Music therapy interventions for children and young people took place alongside therapeutic family interventions. The families involved had all experienced exposure to domestic abuse. A qualitative study of professionals’ perceptions of the project took place after the project had ended, using a methodology of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Interviews with non-music therapy professionals were transcribed and analysed, providing data about perceived benefits for children and families, the evolving perspectives of the professionals involved and the degree to which processes in music therapy were communicated and understood.

Developmental Factors Affecting Children in Legal Contexts

Youth Justice ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E Lamb ◽  
Megan PY Sim
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Developmental Factors ◽  
Legal Contexts ◽  
The Way

Developmental factors affect the way that children and young people behave in legal contexts. We first discuss developmental factors such as cognitive and emotional development, social expectations and suggestibility that affect young victims and suspects. We then describe some implications of these developmental factors for police interviewers and for the youth justice system more generally and call for the more differentiated treatment of young people according to their age and development.

Overview

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Richard White ◽  
Margaret Adcock
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Child Psychology ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Psychiatry Review

This issue of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review is devoted to consideration of the new Needs Assessment Framework for children and families who are the concern of Social Services Departments, the new Youth Justice Assessment for children and young people who break the law, and the processes for the assessment of special educational needs. The new frameworks provide different professional approaches to children and should have a significant impact on the work of all professionals involved with children and families. In many cases the processes of all three areas should overlap and be integrated.

scholarly journals Dealing with pupils digital everyday life

Seminar.net ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl F. Dons.
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Way

The main aim of this article is to answer the following research question: How can we prepare student teachers to deal with pupils who have a wide range of day-to-day experiences of the digital world? This question arises out of the understanding that today's student-teacher training is inadequately equipped to realize the potential for learning found in the way that digital technology is now an integral part of the social and cultural practices of children and young people. Based on theory and practice from research and development activities in primary and lower secondary school, the article points out some perspectives connected to the technology culture of children and young people that may have importance for the professional training of student teachers. The article concludes by summarizing some findings from a research project in general teacher education, where it is argued that student teachers can be qualified to cope with the way children and young people use technology by teaching them to adopt solutions based on personal publishing. In many ways the article deals with classical issues in the education field; how the relations between cognition, learning, technology and fellow-citizenship raise practical issues connected to teaching and learning (Dewey, 1915; 1938; 1958).

scholarly journals Safeguarding or Surveillance

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-131
Author(s):  
Stephen Cowden ◽  
Jonathan Picken
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Young People ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This paper seeks to critically explore the construction of the PREVENT Counter-Terrorism initiative within Social Work in the UK, and to consider the implications this has for Social Work.  We begin by discussing the conceptualisation of ‘radicalisation’ in the work of Arun Kundnani, one of the leading critics of PREVENT, pointing to the limitations of this as a means of grasping the nature of Salafi-Jihadi groupings. We then move to a discussion of the development of Counter-terrorism policy in the UK looking at the way the 2015 legislative guidance has re-situated radicalisation from a ‘security’ issue to a ‘safeguarding’ issue.  We see this as significant for the way it has facilitated Social Work being directly drawn into the orbit of PREVENT and CHANNEL, with radicalisation being re-constructed as part of Social Work’s concern with the vulnerability of children and young people involved in wider forms of exploitation, including CSE.  We consider the reception of this shift within Social Work as well as looking at evidence into how this working in practice.  We then consider challenges to this ‘safeguarding’ paradigm, which argue that this has involved Social Work being drawn into the ideological monitoring of Muslim communities; a ‘surveillance’ paradigm.  We conclude by arguing for a critical defence of a safeguarding approach based on the harms which fundamentalist violence clearly represents to children and young people.

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