The English legal system in the area of social work with children and families can be bewildering and complex and it is vital therefore that any textbook on the subject uses case law, case studies and research to critically-engage social workers and students alike. This book does just that - by examining, and putting into clear practical context, the current law and policy relating to social work with children and families. A guide for both students on placement as well as Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) entering their first roles within children and families teams, Practical Child Law for Social Workers is essential reading for a fast-paced and complex area of social work.
The text offers up-to-date research, a practical guide for training, service provision, and references to relevant research for quality parenting coordination practice. Specifically, this book describes the integrated model of Parenting Coordination, including the Parent Coordinator's professional role, responsibilities, protocol for service, and ......
A Practical Legal Guide for Parents and Professionals
Myers demonstrates the devastating consequen ces for women of facing a legal system which frequently does not support them, often attacks them, and sometimes gives t heir children away to the alleged perpetrators. '
Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. Jaffe, Lemon, and Poisson integrate the most recent clinical and legal issues in the ......
Envisions a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage.
Discussing the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases, this book scrutinizes how the family law system measures up in terms of criteria based in social sciences. It weaves in insights drawn from the social sciences literature and reflections on how psychology might best serve clients struggling with divorce.
Examines marriage, familial gender relations, and the law through the lens of elopement notices. In conjunction with legal treatises, court records, and prescriptive literature, this book highlights the tenuous relationships among marriage law, marital ideals, and lived experience in the early Republic, an era of cultural and economic change.