Neglected children and their families

 Content: Defining and understanding the problem --
 Definitions : arguments and limitations --
 'Thresholds' --
 Wider factors --
 Neglectful families : the general context --
 Poverty --
 Wider family and community support --
 Social exclusion --
 Ethnic and cultural factors --
 Parents --
 Issues affecting understanding --
 What do we know about the characteristics of these parents? --
 The responses of mothers to young children --
 Typologies of neglectful parents --
 Gender --
 Substance abuse, depression, and learning disability --
 Drug abuse --
 Alcoholism --
 Maternal depression --
 Parents with learning disabilities --
 Physical health of parents --
 Children who are seriously neglected --
 The foundation for healthy development --
 The effects of serious and chronic neglect --
 Infants and young children --
 School-age children and young people --
 Delinquency and antisocial behaviour --
 The concept of resilience --
 Attachment --
 Disorganised neglect --
 Depressed, passive and physical neglect --
 Social work with neglected children --
 Working together in cases of neglect; unresolved problems and current issues --
 The current situation --
 Issues and difficulties in relation to neglect --
 The split between welfare and justice systems --
 Neglected children and the family courts --
 Multidisciplinary work; adult and children's services --
 The role of the school --
 Intra-agency work; continuing difficulties in integrating health care --
 So what is to be done? --
 Improving parenting capacity; the prognosis --
 'The big decision' --
 Modes of intervention --
 Help for parents 'as people' --
 The wider family --
 The neighbourhood and wider community --
 The concept of 'shared care' --
 The continuum of complementary care.
 Abstract:             
              This new edition of Olive Stevenson's highly respected text is updated throughout to include the latest policy and research developments, and expanded to include greater consideration of topics such as the impact of parental mental health, substance abuse and alcoholism on parental capacity and the issue of parents with learning disabilities.                 Read more...