Social work and child abuse
Subtitle: still walking the tightrope?
By: Dave Merrick.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Great Britain; Abusive parents -- Counseling of -- Great Britain; Abusive parents -- Great Britain -- Rehabilitation; Child abuse -- Great Britain; Abused children -- Counseling of -- Great Britain; Social work with children -- Great Britain; Probation -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teaching or preaching?; title: Questions of theory; title: Still walking the tightrope?; title: The 1989 Children Act : a significant shift?; title: A stitch in time : the men from the Ministry; title: The 1960s and the short-lived 'triumph' of treatment; title: Moral panic and Maria Colwell; title: Back to the future.