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Working With 'Denied' Child Abuse Book

Working with Denied Child Abuse book cover

Professor Harry Ferguson says: This important book provides a rare blend of new theoretical insights, practice wisdom, and a clear model for intervention into some of the most complex child abuse cases imaginable. It is essential reading for all those concerned with teaching, researching, managing and doing child protection.

Signs of Safety Book

Signs of Safety book cover

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.

Three Houses Booklet & DVD

$40.00

Sonja and Andrew have just completed a Three Houses Booklet to guide practitioners in using this tool. The booklet includes an outline of the suggested process in using the Three Houses, as well as two detailed case examples. The 20 min DVD contains a demonstration by Sonja of using the Three Houses tool with a young person. Working with a child actor, Sonja roleplays interviewing a 12 year old girl using the Three Houses.

Book's & DVD's

Safety House Booklet

$30.00

The Safety House is a practical tool for actively involving children in the process of safety planning. Practitioners use the Safety House tool to talk with the child about what specific safety arrangements the child thinks need to be in place to ensure that they are safe, in situations where they may have previously been hurt or were at risk of being maltreated. The child’s views are recorded in the Safety House in both pictures and words. The child is then invited to create a ‘safety path’ leading to their Safety House and to locate themself on the safety path as a way of representing their assessment (or scaling) of current safety within their family.

Words and Pictures DVD

$50.00

Informing and Involving Children in Child Abuse Cases

The ‘Words and Pictures’ DVD introduces a concrete, tried and tested method, professionals can use to give children and young people age-appropriate, clear information about actual or alleged maltreatment and involve them in what will be done about the issue.

Signs of Safety DVD

$75.00

The Signs of Safety DVD including 32 page workbook is probably the best first port of call for professionals wanting to understand the Signs of Safety approach. The DVD and workbook are also designed as a training resource with training exercises offered in the workbook. This 65 minute DVD is subtitled in Danish, Dutch, English, Japanese, Swedish and Russian and comes in both PAL and NTSC formats.