| Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families Through Effective Interventions: International Evidence for Practice | 
 enlarge | Creators: Collette Mcauley, Peter J. Pecora, Wendy Rose
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Pages: 383
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ISBN: 1843101165
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.7681
EAN: 9781843101161
ASIN: 1843101165
Publication Date: January 31, 2006
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An excellent reference book on evidence based social work with children April 22, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The editors are founders of the International Association for Outcome-Based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children's Services - a bit of a mouthful but this book is their first enterprise and well worth savouring. The aim is to summarise the available evidence succinctly and the contributors to 26 chapters are well-known. They include Wendy Rose, Nina Biehal, Arnon Bentovim, David Quinton, Gillian Pugh, June Statham, etc.
Each section in the book concentrates on evidence based interventions with children and young people that:
1.are vulnerable or of pre-school age, or
2.have experienced abuse or neglect, or
3.experience foster care, adoption and transitions,or
4.are in schools and community programmes
The preface refers to a 'serious preoccupation with developing evidence-based practice on both sides of the Atlantic'. Maybe European comparisons can be drawn upon in later editions but for now it's just the UK-USA context. Each chapter is readable and following an introduction addresses the nature of the evidence, and also evidence of programme effectiveness, exploring the different approaches.
A chapter on (say) 'Home visiting for parents of pre-school children' in the UK is followed by a sister chapter of the same title about the situation in the USA. However it can appear disconcerting that the vocabulary is ethnocentric: Programme v Program; focussed v focused.
Marjorie Smith looks at early interventions with young children 'at a time when there is a huge proliferation of these with pre-school children' in the UK. Reviewing the evidence she finds that no rigorous evaluations of early years interventions have been identified. This is stimulating stuff at a time when many billions are being invested in that sector.
Other main 'headlines' are:
-children that experience neglect
-children that experience sexual and physical abuse
-foster family care
-residential care
-leaving care support
-adoption
A final example is Bentovim's analysis of sexual abuse therapeutic interventions. He notes the evidence that some specific conduct problems are more resistant to treatment than anxiety related symptoms, depression and self-blame which appear particularly sensitive to therapeutic treatment. Bentovim's chapter is much more easy to absorb than the over-referenced USA equivalent by Corcoran - the Yanks have a heavier body of research over there! It was fascinating to note how the two authors avoid quoting each other or duplicating the references they make.
This book is a useful, quick signpost for professionals to effective interventions with specific issues affecting a child.
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