Marian Brandon

This ground-breaking text offers a comprehensive and penetrating account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support. Drawing extensively throughout on fascinating case-study material, the text moves from an introduction to the key theories to a detailed outline of the main methods and processes. It offers a carefully developed and systematically tested practice and assessment model for professionals in this challenging and complex area and, as such, will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike.

How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and other challenging questions, setting out the principles and practice of social work with children and demonstrating the diversity of the work through carefully chosen case material. It will be essential reading for all social workers in training and practice involved with children.