Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability
A Partnership Approach

Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability provides a comprehensive guide to family-centred practice for social workers.

Susan Heward-Belle (Edited by), Menka Tsantefski (Edited by)

9781009218320, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 May 2023

380 pages
24.2 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.685 kg

Vulnerability is not a fixed state; people and families can move in and out of experiencing vulnerability throughout their lives. All families are at risk of experiencing vulnerability at some point, which means that social workers and other professionals must be equipped with the skills to effectively provide them with support. Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability: A Partnership Approach provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to family-centred practice for the social work, human services, health and education professions. This edition has been comprehensively revised and features new chapters on working with families affected by natural disasters, families experiencing poverty, M?ori families, LGBTQIA+ families and families where a parent has an intellectual disability. Emphasis is placed on promoting a rights-based, relational approach to working with children and young people, who are most at risk of experiencing vulnerability. Each chapter includes case studies, reflective questions and activities.

1. The context for practice with children, young people, and their families Menka Tsantefski and Susan Heward-Belle
2. Person-centred, relationship-based practice Susan Heward-Belle, Brigid Lang-Norris, Pam O'Connor, Lauren Redmile and Susan Brown
3. Working within and between organisational boundaries Dorothy Scott
4. Poverty and its impacts on children and families Peter Matthewson, Paul Harris and Menka Tsantefski
5. Attachment theory Amy Conley Wright and Peiling Kong
6. Engaging with fathers for the care and safety of families Susan Heward-Belle and Patrick O'Leary
7. Parenting in a new land Asukulu Bulimwengu and Pooja Sawrikar
8. Working with parents with problematic substance use and mental health issues Sharon Dawe, Paul Harnett and Elizabeth Eggins
9. Children in the midst of family violence Larissa Fogden, Cathy Humphreys and Menka Tsantefski
10. Supporting children and families affected by disasters Elizabeth A. Newnham, Enrique Mergelsberg, Lauren Kosta, Katitza Marinkovic Chavez, Jonathan Bullen, Jane Nursey and Lisa Gibbs
11. Working with families in pregnancy Jo Spangaro
12. Working with children: a rights-based, relational approach to practice Menka Tsantefski and Mary Jo Mc Veigh
13. Understanding young people Jioji Ravulo
14. Parenting with intellectual disability Susan Collings and Margaret Spencer
15. Family-led decision-making approaches with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families Lynette Riley, Sarah Ciftci and Irene Wardle
16. Working with M?ori wh?nau (families) Sharyn Roberts
17. Supporting people of diverse genders and sexualities Peter Matthewson and Ives Rose
18. Working with kinship care families Ann MacRae and Dave Vicary.

Subject Areas: Social work [JKSN]