Books and DVD's
Words and Pictures
Informing and Involving Children in Child Abuse Cases
Children and young people who are caught up in the child protection system often tell us that they don't understand why statutory professionals intervened in their lives and in their family. These youngsters also tell us that they commonly feel they have very little say in the decisions that are taken about their lives.
The Words and Pictures approach to working with children provides a concrete, tried-and-tested method for professionals to provide these children and young people with age-appropriate, clear information about the actual or alleged maltreatment that has occurred in their family. The Words and Pictures document then becomes a historical document that the children and their carers can draw upon in the future, and offers a clear foundation to involve the young people in planning for their lives, whether they live with their family or separate from them.
In this DVD, Andrew Turnell:
- Describes how to involve all of the key adults in the young person's life, both family and professional, in preparing the Words and Pictures explanation.
- Describes how to present the information to the children and involve them in creating the Words and Pictures document.
- Presents Words and Pictures examples in situations of sexual abuse, an injured-infant and neglect.
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Working With Denied Child Abuse
Situations of denied child abuse are often deemed to be ‘impossible’ or ‘untreatable’ by statutory and treatment professionals. These cases can consume enormous amounts of professional time and energy and frequently become bogged down by ongoing professional-family mistrust and dispute. Often enough, the decision to close such cases comes about not because the children are safe, but rather because the professionals themselves are exhausted by the dispute. This book presents an innovative, safety-focused, partnership-based, practice model called Resolutions, which provides an alternate approach to working with the problem of denied child abuse. This book describes each stage of the model and demonstrate the approach through many practice examples from therapists, statutory social workers and other professionals working in Europe, North America and Australasia.
The book offer many ideas and examples for involving children in the processes and focuses particularly on the creation and maintenance of rigourous safety plans.
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The Signs of Safety Book
A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection Casework
A revolutionary approach to child protection work. This book focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" It brings the solution-oriented model to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. For child protection workers who are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in volatile situations, it provides practical, hands-on strategies for building a partnership with parents, which may, in the long run, prevent abuse and family dissolution.
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Introduction to the Signs of Safety Approach DVD
In this DVD, Andrew Turnell Provides a brief background to the development of the approach. Describes the Signs of Safety approach and assessment protocol drawing upon a case example of a single mother who has repeatedly assaulted her 18 month-old son, resulting in hospitalisation. Responds to questions about the approach.
The DVD will be mailed with a copy of the Signs of Safety Assessment and Planning Protocol.