Family resource centres and family breakdown

Smith, Kenneth R.; Breathwick, Peter

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“…Supervision not only contained the workers' anxiety and increased their understanding of the interaction between themselves and the family, but also helped to face issues arising between them. The main difficulties related to over-identification of each worker with the opposite sex partner, with whom each felt a special affinity; their acknowledgement of the severe treatment the parents had inflicted on their baby; and openness about the authority the workers had been given in the conduct of the case (Smith and Breathwick, 1986). The daily meetings: These were initially held three times daily with the staff on duty, and decreased in frequency as the family's stability grew and the staff were caught up in the demands of other residents.…”

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The residential treatment of an abusing family

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Breathwick²

1987

Journal of Social Work Practice

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1987

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Research Review: Family centres: a review of the literature

Warren-Adamson

2006

Child & Family Social Work

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This paper provides a review of the literature about family centres and other examples of centre‐based practice. The literature reflects a period of some 25 years in which practice has sought to integrate protection, support for families and local development in local centres. The literature shows great descriptive activity in the 1980s, and some Children Act (1989) sponsored studies, particularly of the voluntary sector, in the early 1990s, followed by inactivity before a new and more sophisticated literature emerges in the late 1990s and early 2000. While lacking experimental design, the strengths of the contemporary picture show in the appreciative voice of the user, including those at the very margins; studies of support programmes nurtured by centres; lessons about socially inclusive practice and the melding of formality and informality; theorization about centre‐based practice as a containing space; and attempts to understand complexity and synergy and to develop a theory of change. This domain of practice appears to have much to offer the new UK child care strategy and inter‐professional context if the opportunity is taken.

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Family resource centres and family breakdown

Cited by 2 publications

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The residential treatment of an abusing family

The residential treatment of an abusing family

Research Review: Family centres: a review of the literature

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