Child-centred research shows a respect for children and promotes their entitlement to be considered as persons of value and persons with rights. With the growing interest in this approach to psychological research, researchers are using new methods to help them access children's perspectives. While drawings have been in use throughout the history of developmental psychology, they have more often been used as projective tests than as tools to access the views of children. This paper examines the use of drawings as data in child-centred psychological research, focusing on the benefits of this method and issues of data analysis, with reference to some of the existing literature in this area. The example at the heart of this paper explores the career aspirations of 151 Street Children from Kolkata (Calcutta), India, by asking them to draw a picture of 'the sort of person you want to be when you grow up'. This method allowed the participation of children who are not literate, and was also seen as an unintimidating and even enjoyable activity for the children involved. Conclusions will be drawn around the potential and actual contribution of drawings to child-centred research. Children's drawings have been of interest to psychologists for over a century (Sully, 1896). Drawings have since been used as indicators of

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Some service providers use restraints and seclusion with people with an intellectual disability, and policies that permit such practices usually state that their use is primarily to prevent the risk of self-injury or risk to others. However, the use and effectiveness of restrictive practices have been questioned due to the negative impact on the service user and staff and may also be considered a contravention of the human rights of the service user. Consequently, policies are now trending toward limiting restraint use or on the prevention of or safe elimination of the use of restraint. In Ireland, new legislation has attempted to formalize the definitions of restraint and seclusion, as well as place restrictions on such practices. However, issues have been raised with respect to the implementation of the new policies, particularly in operationalizing a definition of restraint and applying it to widely heterogeneous clinical groups considering the autonomy that service providers have in devising their own service-level policies. The authors use legislation from Ireland and Victoria, Australia, to illustrate restraint practices and the issues emanating from its use. The authors argue that a gap remains between our understanding of the place of implementing restrictive practices with respect to service provision and their actual applications by providers. They conclude that such discordance between policy and practice needs to be addressed by stronger regulation.

Respite care is one of a range of support services typically available to carers of people with dependencies who need a break from caring, and the factors that influence the need for respite care are generally similar irrespective of the nature of the dependencies. Hence, the expectations of families potentially have policy and service provision implications regardless of the jurisdiction. However, there is considerable variability in the provision of services, not only between jurisdictions, with differing levels of service development, but also within jurisdictions. The history of disjointed service provision suggests the need for a rethink of respite policy. The authors discuss the conceptual framework and prevalent thinking on respite policy such as a shared understanding of respite care among stakeholders. In turn, this shared understanding is seen as generating a move toward integrated service development, recasting respite as part of a continuum of family support services in which funding policies give families more control. The authors conclude that respite care provided in an integrated framework moves beyond the basic function of a break in caring to one of supporting family coping and resilience.

Findings suggest the CMCAS may be useful in clinical settings as a screening and assessment tool.